DMZ's Real Meaning Is The One Thing The Show Gets Right From The Comics
Warning: the following contains SPOILERS for DMZ.
HBO Max's DMZ is very loosely based on the DC/Vertigo comic book of the same name, but the series does manage to preserve the core themes and real meaning of the source material. Unlike most TV shows that are based on DC comics, DMZ originated from Vertigo, the DC imprint for stories not typically associated with comic books. HBO's series tells an original tale inspired by various elements from different parts of the DC/Vertigo comic book. However, the premise is exactly the same. DMZ is about the lives of the people in the DMZ or Demilitarized Zone, a 'neutral' territory caught in the middle of the civil war between the U.S. government and the Free States of America – the country's most active warzone.
In the comics, the main protagonist is a journalist named Matthew Roth who gets trapped in the DMZ while on assignment. The majority of DC/Vertigo's DMZ is told from the perspective of Matthew, who, throughout the comic book's 72-issue run, becomes a hardened journalist, loyal citizen of the DMZ, war criminal, and international celebrity. Meanwhile, the HBO series follows a doctor named Alma, who also treads a dangerous path. Similar to Dune's Paul Atreides, Alma is an outsider who gets accepted into the community and eventually becomes its leader. While Alma only enters the DMZ to look for her son, she ends up becoming the DMZ's first democratically elected governor, and also adopts the name Zee.
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The DMZ's Alma is loosely based on Matthew's love interest in the comics, a medic named Zee, who's also the second protagonist. In DC/Vertigo's DMZ, Zee saves Matthew from getting killed several times and shows him
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