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Uncle Sam

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Uncle Sam is a two-part prestige format comic book mini-series published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint in 1997. It was written by Steve Darnall with art by Alex Ross. Story The story centers around Sam, an obviously distressed homeless man, who wanders the streets of an unnamed city speaking mostly in odd quotes and sound bites. As he wanders, he has flashes into the lives of poor and struggling Americans, and injustices as they happen all across the United States. He searches his memory trying to pinpoint the moment where the dream he once had for the country went wrong. His mind flits through the darkest moments in American history, from the assassination of John F. Kennedy to the Indian Wars, to slavery, lynchings, the Civil Rights Movement, the Dust Bowl and the Andersonville death camp during the Civil War. Throughout his wanderings, he occasionally encounters a woman named Bea, whose relationship to himself he cannot quite remember. It is implied that he was once an ordinary man who left his home to fight in the American Revolutionary War. He stumbles across an election parade where a corrupt governor is giving a victory speech after defaming his honest opponent. Unlike the audience Sam is able to hear beyond his platitudes and hear the man's true thoughts, and as protestors are dragged off to prison, Sam tries to confront the governor, when he is stopped by a doppleganger who resembles the cleaner, more traditional Uncle Sam. His double warns him not to interfere, and claims that he is the true Uncle Sam - the embodiment of the United States. Sam tries to strike out at his double but is dragged off to prison with the protestors. He is released after a mysterious woman intercedes for him. Wandering alone again, Sam meets and has a conversation with Britannia. She reminisces about the fall of the British Empire and about America's forays into imperialism. After a gang of teenagers try to set him on fire, Sam finally recalls the memory he has been searching for, which was of himself participating in the bloody crushing of Shays' Rebellion. He begins to wonder if America's ideals didn't die, but were never seriously respected from the beginning.

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Uncle Sam: personification of the United States of America and its gove · DC Comics character · American singer · original song written, composed, and performed by Madness

Overview

Uncle Sam is a two-part prestige format comic book mini-series published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint in 1997. It was written by Steve Darnall with art by Alex Ross. Story The story centers around Sam, an obviously distressed homeless man, who wanders the streets of an unnamed city speaking mostly in odd quotes and sound bites. As he wanders, he has flashes into the lives of poor and struggling Americans, and injustices as they happen all across the United States. He searches his memory trying to pinpoint the moment where the dream he once had for the country went wrong. His mind flits through the darkest moments in American history, from the assassination of John F. Kennedy to the Indian Wars, to slavery, lynchings, the Civil Rights Movement, the Dust Bowl and the Andersonville death camp during the Civil War. Throughout his wanderings, he occasionally encounters a woman named Bea, whose relationship to himself he cannot quite remember. It is implied that he was once an ordinary man who left his home to fight in the American Revolutionary War. He stumbles across an election parade where a corrupt governor is giving a victory speech after defaming his honest opponent. Unlike the audience Sam is able to hear beyond his platitudes and hear the man's true thoughts, and as protestors are dragged off to prison, Sam tries to confront the governor, when he is stopped by a doppleganger who resembles the cleaner, more traditional Uncle Sam. His double warns him not to interfere, and claims that he is the true Uncle Sam - the embodiment of the United States. Sam tries to strike out at his double but is dragged off to prison with the protestors. He is released after a mysterious woman intercedes for him. Wandering alone again, Sam meets and has a conversation with Britannia. She reminisces about the fall of the British Empire and about America's forays into imperialism. After a gang of teenagers try to set him on fire, Sam finally recalls the memory he has been searching for, which was of himself participating in the bloody crushing of Shays' Rebellion. He begins to wonder if America's ideals didn't die, but were never seriously respected from the beginning.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).