Written by Steve Darnall & Alex Ross Art & cover by Alex Ross most eloquent use of a super-human archetype for a great many years Darnall & Ross have with UNCLE SAM produced a luminous & moving study of America iconographic landscape Alan Moore Alex Ross illustrates a vibrant hallucinatory tour of modern America as seen through the eyes of a homeless man who may be the living spirit of America in this new hardcover edition of a Vertigo classic With dynamic painted art by Alex Ross UNCLE SAM is the story of a star-spangled vagrant clad in red white & blue guided by the voices in his head & his own fractured memories Absorbed by history-traveling visions of America&s dark past Uncle Sam struggles to piece together the scattered clues of his own experiences in this deep & thoughtful look at America&s checkered past