The American Way
DC · 2006 · 8 issues
About the series
John Ridley and Georges Jeanty's The American Way (2006–present, DC) reimagines the Silver Age of superheroes as a government propaganda tool, exploring the dark underbelly of patriotism and race in 1960s America. This eight-issue series follows a team of manufactured heroes whose staged heroics unravel when a Black man is recruited to join their ranks, forcing a reckoning with the nation's real-world divisions. A sharp, character-driven deconstruction of the superhero genre, it remains a prescient and thoughtful work from an acclaimed writer.