The American Way : those above and below / written by John Ridley ; pencils by Georges Jeanty ; inks by John Livesay [and others] ; colors by Nick Filardi ; letters by Travis Lanham.
Publisher:
DC Comics,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
"The American Way created by John Ridley" "Originally published in single magazine form as THE AMERICAN WAY: THOSE ABOVE AND THOSE BELOW 1-6"
Summary:
"The Oscar-winning screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave returns for an all-new chapter in his alternate history of The American Way! In 1962 Jason Fisher was given astonishing powers by the United States government--powers he used to defend the nation as the New American. He and his teammates in the Civil Defense Corps were real-life superheroes. Except that it was all a fraud. A conspiracy. And now, 10 years after the CDC was torn apart by racism, infighting and murder, the Corps' surviving members find themselves pulled in very different directions. Missy Devereaux--a.k.a. Ole Miss--is transitioning from the First Lady of Mississippi into a candidate for governor and defender of a vanishing and hateful way of life. Amber Eaton--formerly known as Amber Waves--has become a domestic terrorist, using her powers to infiltrate and destroy the country's centers of power. Somewhere in the middle stands Jason Fisher, who has remained a crime-fighter even as evidence mounts that he is accomplishing nothing besides propping up a system that's rigged against him as a black man in America. In a nation being torn apart, what does it mean to fight for the American way?"-- cover page 4.
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