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Wow. I love righteous fury. Ellis does it like no one else. I also love the poetic beauty he uses to describe the city and his relationship with it. The duality of filth disgust and garbage versus the positivity of energy, discovery and people. At first I found it a bit wordy...but it arts up the second act perfectly...The Smiler has come to power, Spider vowing to take him out...in the midst of this, a brutal hate crime takes place, outraging Spider to nearly boiling point. The response of the
3 1/2 stars
Things only continue to get so much worse after this volume, but somehow the title story's wicked scheme stood out in my mind as particularly heinous. It really got the emotions right. It painted the villains as some particular types of assholes, let us see them get away with it scott-free, and shoved even more injustice down the throats of every concerned citizen. And it was Spider's fault - kind of, in the way it's some poor abused kid's fault his dad is beating him up.And he wasn't allowed to...
Discovery of the year! It's not "edgy", it's (insert superlatives) outrageous. Transmetropolitan makes Family Guy look like Sesame Street. Spider Jerusalem might be an asshole, but he fights the right battles: corruption, police brutality, xenophobia, you name it. Highly entertaining.
Do not binge-read Transmetropolitan. Try to alternate some socially-accepted books before going back and picking up a volume of Spider Jerusalem's fight against the corrupted authorities. You'd get tired of the city, its filth, its stories. Same old ugliness, same old crap.Lonely City felt like a filler volume at first, a confined story that Spider Jerusalem must write in his column. But hell escalated quickly at the middle part of the book and damn, from all the craziness I have experienced wit...
Shit. For me, living in Russia, stories about police brutality and killings of peaceful protesters and civilians, and about the government controlling the press, they just strike a little too close to home. I guess, for US it should be the same. This volume was really sad.Ugh, I actually love this comc book a lot now. So glad I decided to give it another go after my first, disappointing attempt at reading volume 1.This trade also contains issue #25 "Here to Go", the first one in the trade. It wa...
Every time I feel like Transmetropolitan doesn't know what to talk about anymore, it comes out the left field with the greatest storylines. Spider Jerusalem finds fun and creative ways of getting into trouble with the law as he investigates a brutal murder the police seems oddly disinterested in. What ensues has nothing to envy to the great conspiracy theory novels, yet keeps the fun, edgy and oh-so-pertinent edge that makes Spider jerusalum who he is. One of the best, if not the best volume yet...
The Beast has been replaced in office by the Smiler, a far more sinister President with plans to obliterate the man who pursued and mocked him throughout the election, Spider Jerusalem. Following a Senator's sex scandal leads Spider and his filthy assistants, Yellena and Channon, to massive corruption within the police force of the city where a hate crime has been essentially buried. But when Spider raises his hackles on the police, he finds that he's walked into a bloody trap...This book takes
Classic but has aged unevenly Ellis has a gift for cynical characters, gonzo paranoia, and world building. This, however, does seem to have a retro-future feel from the end of 90s to the early aughts as much as it speaks to now. Spyder having a fully developed team does help cut against some of the revenge fantasy element of the work. Classic but has aged unevenly.
With the Smiler in the White House, Spider Jerusalem, journalist and psycho extraordinaire demands that politicians show him their penises.Yes, that's right. He and his filthy assistants chase down local office-holders demanding to see their penises.Thus, begins the real meat of Transmet, Jerusalem's real crusade for the truth, the complete out-fuckery of politics and media as it stands. Nothing is safe. The entire police force can be turned out to destroy him, and Jerusalem soldiers on, exposin...
