...and I obviously had nothing to fear. 

It's always concerning when a long running—and extremely excellent—series comes to an end. The reader gets invested in the characters, in the various stories along the way, and ultimately gets a feel for how they believe they want to see it end.

And then, there's four things that can happen...

The first is, the creators decide to do a non-ending ending, where it's a bit of a cop-out, but the characters just kind of keep on keeping on, and the reader's left to fill in the rest.

The second is, the creators and the readers are right in sync and the series closes exactly they way they expected. I will say, this rarely happens.

The third is, the creators and readers are completely out of sync, and it ends absolutely unsatisfactorily, or a brand new team is brought in to wrap it up and, without having the experience and/or respect, completely bone it up...or something. Happens far too often.

The final way is, the creators have known where they're going since day one, and they've laid down all the groundwork, but carefully camoflauged it so that, when the ending comes, it's not as predicted, but it's logical, and it's satisfying.

And this last one is exactly how DMZ ended. As I read through it, I was impressed that it wasn't set up as the One Big Happy Ending, that, just like in life, the end of the war was being sold as something wonderful by the upper echelon, yet on the ground, reality still won and things were rolling on pretty much as expected. And then, of course, there was Matty Roth at the centre of the maelstrom. 

I know a lot of readers have expressed dissatisfaction at his fate, and how it didn't make sense, but honestly, for the past three volumes, Roth had been struggling with his actions, so, for me, it was the right ending.

I absolutely loved this series. One of the best graphic novel series I've ever read.