"Wood's most brilliant move". In a review for The New York Times in December of that year, Douglas Wolk characterised the volume as a "love letter to the city", describing Wood's writing as "full of acidic metaphors for American flag-waving and embedded reportage", Burchielli's "messy, deliberately ugly artwork" as effective in illustrating the apocalyptic subject matter, and the characters as "gloriously resilient". Wolk's colleague at the newspaper George Gene Gustines declared following the release later that month of issue #14 that DMZ had reached the ranks of top tier Vertigo titles, and that the imprint's decision to press ahead with collected editions of the comic in spite of its comparably low sales figures (15,000 copies per issue) was a notable sign of confidence. Gustines added: "[T]he series is at its best, in the smaller moments showing how life is different in the war-torn city". Television In 2014, Syfy was planning on making a TV series adaptation of the comic with former Mad Men writers and executive producers Andre and Maria Jacquemetton. Executive producer for the pilot was David Heyman, who previously worked on Harry Potter, Gravity, Paddington, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Marriage Story and was working on the movie adaptation of the Vertigo comic series Fables. In October 2019, the series received a pilot order from HBO Max with Ava DuVernay directing the pilot. Collected editions The series has been collected in standard trade paperbacks. Starting in 2020, the series was collected as two Compendium trade paperbacks. Starting in 2014, the series was re-released as deluxe hardcover editions. Footnotes I. The series concluded with issue #72, "Epilogue", which was published on December 28, 2011 but whose cover date was February 2012. II. A lot of information about the New York City of DMZ can be found in issue #12, which was a Time Out-style guide to the DMZ. References External links Live From the DMZ – canonical companion site curated by Justin Giampaoli DMZ at IGN DMZ cover art at ComicArtCommunity.com 2005 comics debuts 2012 comics endings Action-adventure comics Alternate history comics Dystopian comics Comics by Brian Wood (comics) Comics set in New York City Comics about politics Post-apocalyptic comics Satirical comics Triad (organized crime) Vertigo Comics titles War comics Second American Civil War speculative fiction