About American Flagg!: Hard Times
"Hard Times, the premiere volume of the American Flagg! series, throws Reuben Flagg, former TV star and stand up comic, into the urban cacophony of the tumult of the Chicago Plexmall. A crassly commercialized center of postmodern excess run corporately from Mars by the anonymous cartel known as the Plex. Flagg, drafted into Chicago's Plexus Rangers, begrudgingly becomes the law in this envronment of TV crazed gogangs, heavily armed poli-clubs, reactionary underground terrorist groups and psychotic Soviet jewelry salesmen. For better or worse, Flagg's sense of moral priority doesn't allow him to accept all of this as status quo. Someone had to put it all back together-and Reuben Flagg was definitely the man."
Source; inside front dust cover of the HC