About American Flagg!: Southern Comfort
"Reuben Flagg was born in the year 2000, at Hammarskjold Center, Mars, the home of every surviving corporate chief and the capital of Humanity.
Flagg is a college dropout, a former pop-singer, stand-up comic, and the erstwile vid star of "Mark Thrust, Sexus Ranger."
When computer-generated images designed to simulate acting made Flagg superfluous, he chose to join the Plexus Rangers and emigrate to Earth.
Because of his Martian diet and metabolism, Flagg is able to see the subliminal messages implanted by the ASLC in Plex vid programming, although they are virtually invisible to everyone else.