Give Me Liberty - Sequels

Sequels

Give Me Liberty was followed by:

• the five-issue series Martha Washington Goes to War in 1994, which was closely based on Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. In this series, Rexall's increasingly corrupt government is subverted by the Surgeon General, who attempts a coup. Meanwhile, Martha is on the trail of the "Ghosts", a seditionist faction with an artificially-intelligent supercomputer. Joining up with the seditionists, Martha is instrumental in bringing down the corrupt government.
• the one-shot issue Happy Birthday Martha Washington in March 1995, featuring:
  • "Collateral Damage", originally published in black and white under the title Martha Washington’s War Diary in the Dark Horse Presents Fifth Anniversary Special (1991)
  • "State of the Art", originally published in San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 (1993)
  • "Insubordination" - In "Insubordination", which is set in Philadelphia in February 6, 2013, Martha is order to recover a sample of blood from Captain Kurtz, who is the inventor of a super soldier serum that has kept him young for 40 years. Captain Kurtz dies protecting the Liberty Bell from Nazis rebels. Martha succeeds in acquiring the blood sample but decides to destroy the blood sample because she believes that Captain Kurtz was the only person able to control the power of the serum.
• the one-shot issue Martha Washington Stranded in Space in November 1995, featuring:
  • "Crossover", guest-starring The Big Guy. Martha investigates a space anomaly that temporarily sends her to Big Guy's reality.
  • "Attack of the Flesh Eating Monsters", originally published in black and white in Dark Horse Presents #100-4. Martha fights off an attack by monsters conforming to 1950s pulp-SF stereotypes; she discovers that this is merely a psychological study conducted by the world-controlling AI.
• the three-issue series Martha Washington Saves the World in 1997. An actual alien spaceship arrives, and Martha uses its superior technology to defeat the megalomaniacal AI.
• the one-shot issue Martha Washington Dies in 2007

There is an additional Martha Washington story "Logistics", which was published exclusively as part of a comic distributed with the Martha Washington action figure. In "Logistics", the story, which is set in June 13, 2012, reveals that the 94 Amendment to the US Constitution strictly forbids the breeding, slaughter, or sale of red meat; but that does not stop Martha and PAX from eating meat burgers when their logistics train runs out of food. Because of the ban on red meat, most of the American Southwest and all of the Mexican Teritory seceed from the United States, whch call themselves Real America.