Scout (comic book)

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Scout is a comic book series published starting in 1987 by American writer, artist and musician Timothy Truman starring a Native American Apache named Emanuel Santana. The setting of the series was a chaotic, post-apocalyptic United States. It was published by Eclipse Comics.

After the series ended , a short comic featuring Santana's marriage ceremony was published inside Timothy Truman's first album release entitled Marauder by his band The Dixie Pistols.

A new series entitled Scout: War Shaman continued Santana's adventures after having two children and being widowed.

Relatively eco-political and also with a semi-mythical element (due to Emanuel Santana's Apache origin), both series had a gritty and violent portrayal of the future. One interesting facet of this fiction was the underdog position of the USA on the world political stage. The story posited that a history of past ecological excesses had led other nations to levy vast sanctions against the USA. The situation was similar to that of Germany after WW1, but instead of having lost a war of invasion, this was due to responsibility for "stealing" world resources.