This page is part of an mirror of © FOTW Flags Of The World website
This website is devoted to the science of vexillology (the study of flags).
All illustrations presented on this website serve exclusively to provide information in the context of vexillology.
The authors and hosts of this site explicitly distance themselfes from any symbols of unconstitutional organizations that may be depicted here.
Last modified: 2015-07-28 by peter hans van den muijzenberg
Keywords: book | novel | comic books | dmz | free states of america |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
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
![[ It is medium blue with a large white star, with the addition of a narrow blue descending stripe across the star, from the point of the lower right arm to the opposite vertex]](../images/f/fic_dmz.gif)
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
Advertisement from our sponsor:
Bei Fahnenversand.de erhalten Sie eine Vielzahl an hochwertigen Flaggen, Pins und Aufnähern, zum Beispiel:
