Written by Brian Wood; Art by Riccardo Burchielli and Nathan Fox; Cover by Wood

Part 1 of the 5-part "Friendly Fire." Matty Roth reluctantly landed an interview for Liberty News with an enlisted U.S. solider who's found guilty of a massacre within the DMZ. What follows is a look at how the DMZ came to be, from the perspective of a kid who came from the Midwest and walked right into a nightmare.