Spider Jerusalem steps up his campaign of showing the world the truth about President Callahan aka the Smiler, and vindicating the death of Vita Severn. But as he builds his case by going through the list of people involved with Callahan’s election, each of the witnesses is killed off. Worse still, he’s about to lose his job at the Word and become a true outlaw journalist, hitting the road and dodging bullets and the President sets his sights on a bald headed drug addict and his filthy assistant...

Witness. Here I am: Spider Jerusalem, media element, TV celebrity, quotable, that wild and crazy guy who does that controversial muckraking column that no one really reads... lost in mix.Another face in the crowd. Spider is having a bad time in his city. His column was silenced by the government once and they are threatening to do so again at the first sign of trouble. On the top of that, Spider is now a well-known celebrity which is not a good thing in this city.But Mr. President forg...

Didn't enjoy this one as much as others. The childishness of the bowel-disrupter ray, and the ability of Spider to get away with anything he wants started bugging me. That stuff has always been there, but it kept me more interested in the early issues when this world was new to me. I'll keep going, though!

Things are starting to get really interesting here. Spider goes on the attack, and it costs him his job. Funny thing is, it looks like he couldn't be happier. Watching him go on the attack is pretty satisfying, actually, and seeing the hammer come down doesn't ruin the effect. I sort of feel like the best is yet to come.

I think it's starting to dawn on me why I think Transmetropolitan is one of my favourite comics, while Planetary, by the same author, didn't grab me at all. Both comics set out to create this magnificent scifi/fantasy setting, filled to the brim with weird shit, and with a highly capable and often borderline invincible protagonist.But in one, the setting is used to its full capability - we get to dive deep into its functions and mechanics and how it's changed the society by this time - and the h...

actual rating: 3.5I'm not sure if I liked the whole '3 one shots + one 3-part story' format of these past few volumes. I mean the one shots are related to the main story, but it still means that it takes me a while to actually get into the volume. Still, we get a fun one shot with Channon and Yelena and then shit really goes down in the last three issues. I'm definitely excited to see what happens next.

Where is our Spider? Surely there are a few more people in this country that are willing to step up and risk it all for the sake of uncovering and displaying such blatant corruption.I wish Spider was real. He is one crude dude but if that is how our hero enters, so be it.

I have a hard time judging the extent of Transmetropolitan's self-awareness. It idolizes Hunter S. Thompson as the epitome of journalistic prowess; it relegates its female characters to the role of sidekick and/or inamorata; it contains a surprising number of good old fashioned gore-heavy fight scenes for a comic that is ostensibly about political reporting.The present volume, for instance, finds the series' two least facile female characters, Yelena Rossini and Channon Yarrow (together known as...

It took a while for me to get into this series. It was a bit all over the place, and it took a while for the real plot to go into motion. But when it did- wow! I really love it. It's a very gritty novel, but it reflects society in that way. Society isn't nice or friendly, and while day-to-day life may not be as sordid and bleak as it is in Transmetropolitan, but there are circles that are similar. And society is reflected in this piece.I can't exactly pinpoint what it is about this edition of Tr...

"I have a cunning plan!"The sixth Transmetropolitan collection, like the previous volume, is a mixed bag. The main story, "Gouge Away," is a strong investigative reporting tale and nicely ties together the Transmetropolitan, Vol. 5: Lonely City and Transmetropolitan, Vol. 4: The New Scum stories. Spider Jerusalem's talents really get to shine and his articles make a huge impact after the media attempted to defang him with popularity. The other three issues have some highlights but for th...

Ellis captures something of the paranoia of a pre-9/11 late 90s and early aughts here where he really moves Spyder Jerusalem into the main political intrigue of the comic. Damaged from the death of the death of Vita Severn, Jerusalem launches into the President Callahan, "The Smiler." There are still bits of world building here, such as Yellena and Channon day away from Spyder, but mostly this moves the comic forward. Darick Robertson's art gets more madcap and someways richer for its grime.

Don’t know this series so didn’t realize I was picking up volume 6. At first I didn’t mind jumping right in, because there were a number of fantasy sequences playing with issues of identity and image manipulation. Later chapters however made me long for more context and background.

Spider attacks, gets some revenge and then some. I'd say this is a pretty good set up for the final acts.

One of the things I adore about this series is the pacing. What seemed to be stand-alone stories end up tying into the plots of later issues, there's a brief interlude and then a three part story that sets your heart racing. Warren Ellis strings his readers along the way that one imagines Spider Jerusalem's columns must - it's a rare gift, and a striking one.The pace continues to pick up, but not so much that the ending is always a cliff-hanger. Characters don't suddenly change, the arcs are sub...

Transmetropolitan volume 6 offers a couple of completely hilarious shorts as well as an entertaining and witty longer story in the excellent tradition of the series. Spider Jerusalem's role as a dissident and an unwilling political activist gets enforced further, deepening the strong allegories about modern society.