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DMZ (comic book)

Introduction
Free States of America

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Introduction

DMZ is an American comic book series by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli, published by DC/Vertigo.

It is set in New York City during the Second American Civil War, between the United States of America and the breakaway Free States of America. The war is in a protracted stalemate, and New York (on the front lines) has been largely evacuated, with only the poor, minorities, and other social undesiresables left behind. The island of Manhattan is the demilitarized zone of the title, haphazardly policed by UN peacekeepers, neighboorhood militias, gangs, and private contractors.
Eugene Ipavec, 10 June 2009

Free States of America

by Eugene Ipavec, 10 June 2009

The Free States of America is a kind of amorphous popular-disgust revolt against the government which starts in Helena, Montana and expands like wildfire, with large swaths of the military either refusing to fight it or defecting to it. The FSA's progress is finally arrested only at the eastern seaboard when the government rushes home loyal troops from the Middle East. The flag of the FSA appears several times, most clearly in the second collected edition, "Body of a Journalist," where there is a hostage-video scene. It is medium blue with a large white star, obviously meant to echo the Bonnie Blue and Burnet flags, but with the addition of a narrow blue descending stripe across the star, from the point of the lower right arm to the opposite vertex (the flag is frequently off-model, with the stripe especially migrating a bit, but this is how it appears in large closeups which are presumably definitive). Holding lines are omitted
Eugene Ipavec, 10 June 2009