If there’s a thrill here, it’s not that the United States can be junke — Uncle Sam (Vertigo)

"Steve Darnall and Alex Ross find Uncle Sam out on the street, help him to his feet and send him off to confront those who believe that they alone speak for the founding fathers. A timely idea, brilliantly executed."

"This truly subversive graphic novel — more explicitly radical than anything else from DC Comics in recent memory ... a damning account of American political history that also affirms basic democratic ideals."

"An old man lies crumpled on the sidewalk: he has thin white hair and a long white goatee. Hes dressed in a black coat and red and white striped trousers. People pass on by. Theres a fly on the old mans forehead. His left arm is stretched out, his fingers curled like a beggars, but he looks you right in the face. His angry eyes says he lies on the pavement not to ask you for what youve got but to ask you how you got it. He might be a bum, he might be a judge; as you follow his story you keep changing your mind..."

"Uncle Sam is probably the most thoughtfully radical piece of truly popular culture I’ve seen in the last decade or two. Frighteningly intense and ... also sad in the most eloquent way, patriotic in all the ways that mattered, to all the things that one might justifiably be patriotic to."

"An immensely powerful piece of work: a demonstration of the artistic and political potential of the medium."

"The most eloquent use of a superhuman archetype for a great many years, Darnall and Ross have with Uncle Sam produced a luminous and moving study of Americas iconographic landscape, at once an indictment and a reclamation of the nations oldest and most venerable symbol. As a portrait of a fond American dream at last waking to itself, Uncle Sam is genuinely inspiring and deserves to be read more than once. Highly recommended."