Give Me Liberty was one of Frank Miller's two creator-owned (the other was Hard Boiled) titles he took to Dark Horse after deciding to stop working for DC Comics after a dispute over a proposed ratings system.
The series starts with Martha's birth and sees her slowly grow up from someone struggling to break free of the public housing project, to being a war hero and major figure in deciding the fate of the United States.
The series was a mix of Miller's typical action sequences as well as being a political satire of the United States and its major corporations.
The titles of the original four issues of Give Me Liberty were: On the then-future date of March 11, 1995, Martha Washington is born in a Chicago hospital.
A year later, Martha’s father is killed during a protest over the African-American community's living conditions at the Cabrini–Green housing project, which has been enclosed in a walled and roofed structure that residents are not permitted to leave.
Meanwhile, newly elected President Erwin Rexall has established a repressive dystopia, enforcing harsh economic policies that subject Martha's family to abject poverty while repealing the 22nd Amendment to ensure that he can run for more than two terms.
One night, Martha shows up at Donald’s classroom and finds that he's been murdered by the Ice Man, a hulking enforcer working for a local gangster called the Pope.
Martha is remanded to a psychiatric hospital, where she discovers that experiments are being secretly performed on children to genetically alter their minds, effectively turning them into human computers.
Nissen proves to be an effective leader, ending years of scattered global wars being fought by Rexall's PAX Peace Force and sending troops to South America to fight the destruction of the rainforests by renegade cattle industrialists.
There, she experiences the physical and psychological horrors of combat, falling victim to a chemical weapon that permanently turns her hair blonde.
The walled structure that enclosed the Green is demolished and Martha is reunited with her mother, promising she won't have to leave home again.
Martha kills the terrorists in the space station's control room, but not before the leader is able to voice the command to fire the pre-targeted cannon.
Several terrorists fire at Martha with machine guns, ripping a large hole in the outer hull, causing the station to violently depressurize.
While struggling to reach the station's computer room, Martha discovers a child test subject she encountered at the psychiatric hospital.
Meanwhile, President Nissen's administration has become crippled by dissension across ranks of PAX, secessionist pressures across America and the disappointing consequences of policy decisions towards the Apaches.
The document, drafted by Moretti himself, orders the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to use PAX's laser cannon to incinerate the Apache Nation.
Moretti declares himself the country's interim leader and orders the destruction of the Surgeon General's stronghold, Fortress Health, by laser cannon.
Moretti's attempts to negotiate with these factions fail rapidly and his obsessive pre-occupation with the Surgeon General is heavily criticized by his military advisers.
Because of the ban on red meat, most of the American Southwest and all of the Mexican Territory secede from the United States, which call themselves Real America.
[3] On September 9, 2009, Dark Horse released a 600-page hardcover titled The Life and Times of Martha Washington in the Twenty First Century.