Collecting the first 12 issues of the series about the ultimate embedded war journalist trapped in a most unlikely war zone: the streets of New York City. In the near future, America's worst nightmare has come true. With military adventurism overseas bogging down the Army and National Guard, the U.S. government mistakenly neglects the very real threat of anti-establishment militias scattered across the 50 states. Like a sleeping giant, Middle America rises up and violently pushes its way to the shining seas, coming to a standstill at the line in the sand - Manhattan or, as the world now knows it, the DMZ. Matty Roth, a naïve young man and aspiring photojournalist, lands a dream gig following a veteran war journalist into the heart of the DMZ. Things soon go terribly wrong, and Matty finds himself lost and alone in a world he's only seen on television. There, he is faced with a choice: try to find a way off the island, or make his career with an assignment most journalists would kill for. But can he survive in a war zone long enough to report the truth? Collects issues #1-12 of the original monthly series.

本作は分断が極限に達した米国内戦を舞台に、新米記者の視点から真実の定義を問い直す衝撃作です。廃墟と化したマンハッタンで日常が暴力に侵食される様を冷徹に描く筆致は、単なるフィクションを超えた痛烈な社会批評として読者の倫理観を激しく揺さぶります。 実写版が個人の葛藤をダイナミックに描く一方、原作は緻密なテキストで報道の業と希望を多層的に表現しています。映像の熱量と紙面の重厚な思考が共鳴し、現代社会への鋭い警告としてより鮮烈なリアリティを私たちに突きつけてくるのです。