Very New York war graphic novel from the 2000s. Has a lot of similarities to Joe Sacco's nonfiction Palestine comics (which are better). Premises “what if Iraq, but in NYC”? Or maybe, “what if The Warriors, but in 1979 Beirut”? I'd be here for a “what if post-Gothic War Rome, but NYC” book. Captures some of the Bush era paranoia and cynicism, as well as some other less tangible pieces of the zeitgeist. Successfully predicts that the U.S. would be divided into factions, and the “middle ground” between them is nothing but a destroyed wasteland. The FSA's success in the face of government forces defecting or deserting kind of reminds me of the Free Syrians' final toppling of Assad. I feel like the wheels would come off the American war machine pretty fast in the event of any sort of civil conflict. The short-range use of long-range weapons systems (e.g. submarine launching missiles at lower Manhattan from off Breezy Point , missile artillery firing across the East River) made me roll my eyes a little bit. World conflicts of the 2010s-2020s make the lack of drone activity seem a little incongruous as well. Not sure what to say about the protagonist Matty. He's there, I guess. I want to know more about Wilson or Zee or the sniper guy and his sniper girlfriend.