'DMZ' by Brian Wood enters final issues

Published May 17 2011, 10:03 BST  |  By Hugh Armitage

Brian Wood has announced the closing of his ongoing Vertigo title DMZ.

The writer has teased the beginning of the end of his comic as it enters into the run-up to its final issue.

"So DMZ ends at 72, but this week's issue, 65, I would call the first of two endings," he wrote on Twitter. "Some major, long-running plotlines wrap up."

In July's issue #67, DMZ will enter into its final arc, titled 'The Five Nations of New York'.

Wood and artist Riccardo Burchielli's comic launched in 2005 and is set in a near-future Manhattan in a United States gripped by a second civil war.

Wood has been rumoured to be taking over writing duties on DC Comics' Supergirl, a title that has passed through a string of different creators' hands since Sterling Gates's departure in December.

His recent projects also include a four-issue miniseries The New York Five. A collaboration with artist Ryan Kelly, the last issue was released last month.