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“Those Who are Fit to Rule Know There is no Morality and That There is Only One Natural Right, The Right of the Superior to Rule over the Inferior.” “Those Who are Fit to Rule Know There is no Morality and That There is Only One Natural Right, The Right of the Superior to Rule over the Inferior.”
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“I Seem to Remember we Had us A Constitution” “I Seem to Remember we Had us A Constitution”
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Four State of the Nation and the Freedom Fighters Arc
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Published:November 2010
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Abstract
Scholars and critics have long paid attention to comic books, including the superhero narrative, which remains a topseller in a fiercely competitive North American marketplace. One example of a superhero narrative is DC Comics’s Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters, which debuted in National Comics #1 in July 1940 and features characters such as Uncle Sam, the Human Bomb, Black Condor, Phantom Lady, Miss America, and Red Torpedo. The Freedom Fighters was relaunched by Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti in a multi-title narrative arc that culminates in the eight-issue limited series Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters (2006–2007). This chapter examines the Freedom Fighters arc and its fusion of adventurous escapism with pointed political commentary, and how its creators exploited the freedom of the comics medium to critique the erosion of civil liberties in the United States under the Bush administration. More specifically, it analyzes Freedom Fighters’ allegory of Bush-era post-9/11 America operating in the pretext of a War on Terror and national security.
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