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| Original Title: | Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street |
| ISBN: | 1563894459 (ISBN13: 9781563894459) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.dccomics.com/vertigo/graphic_novels/?gn=1719 |
| Series: | Transmetropolitan (Collected Editions) #1, Transmetropolitan (BR) #1 |
| Characters: | Spider Jerusalem, Channon Yarrow, Mitchell Royce, Fred Christ |
| Setting: | United States of America |
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After years of self-imposed exile from a civilization rife with degradation and indecency, cynical journalist Spider Jerusalem is forced to return to a job that he hates and a city that he loathes. Working as an investigative reporter for the newspaper The Word, Spider attacks the injustices of his surreal 23rd Century surroundings. Combining black humor, life-threatening situations, and moral ambiguity, this book is the first look into the mind of an outlaw journalist and the world he seeks to destroy.Point Out Of Books Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street (Transmetropolitan (Collected Editions) #1)
| Title | : | Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street (Transmetropolitan (Collected Editions) #1) |
| Author | : | Warren Ellis |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 144 pages |
| Published | : | February 1st 1998 by Vertigo (first published January 1998) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Comics. Graphic Novels. Science Fiction. Fiction. Cyberpunk |
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I picked this up from my library on a whim. I'm not a huge fan of the urban future sci-fi genre. I much prefer dark urban fantasy but I figured, why not. It could be fun. Right?Hell yeah, it was fun! It was gritty, interesting, hilarious, entertaining, and crazy. I love the main character. He's absolutely insane but for all the right reasons. His rants were awesome and his vulgarity was epic. The art was also fantastic and really set the mood for the story. Well done.I definitely recommend thisEveryone seems to love this! Whether they are reviewing the series or just this first volume is sometimes unclear, but with this first installation I was mostly disappointed. It's one of those comics series that you hear about here and there, so I decided to give it a go. And to me it mainly seemed crude just for the hell of it, and with characters that you're not supposed to care about or relate with. Spider is supposedly meant to be a moral character, and yet when the story starts it is made
Hunter S. Thompson Spider Jerusalem reluctantly returns from his self-imposed exile to emerge anew as the premier gonzo journalist. Anyway, you don't learn journalism in a school. You learn it by WRITING FUCKING JOURNALISM. You teach yourself to wire up your own brain and gut and reproductive organs into one frightening machine that you aim at the planet like a meat gun - - In addition to his mighty pen, his only other weapon is the truth, and something called a bowel disrupter set to prolapse.
Transmetropolitan is the graphic novel that I've been looking for so long! Dark humour, sci-fi, and unconventional journalism are the main elements of this comic series.Warren Ellis conveys a dystopian futuristic world where depravity, religion, social inequality and ideologies are scrutinised in a fully ironic approach.The protagonist, Spider Jerusalem, is a clever, non-conformist journalist who follows a particular lifestyle, a lifestyle motivated by pushing the truth, debunking false dogmas,
DEVILISHLY FUN!Hunter S. Thompson is alive and well done, shambling across the pages of Warren Ellis 1998 Transmetropolitan volume number one: Back on the Streets.First published in 1998, this only demonstrates the great vision Ellis had then, he was a canary in the coal mines as much of what he wrote 20 years ago could have been created today.Spider Jerusalem. As great a character name as Velveeta Jones or Hiro Protagonist. Spider is a journalist, an inflammatory writer, a brigand of the TRUTH!
Reading the first volume of Transmetropolitan for the first time, I feel that I've been shot between the eyes with a bullet coated in a variety of psychedelic drugs which is giving me the trip of my life as I die. There's more ideas per page than I think I've ever seen in a graphic novel before.It's not just that though, it's the heart and soul that comes pouring off the pages as well. The author is angry about so many things - the violence and brutality of the police, the corruption of the
I LOVED this!Transmetropolitan is set on a futuristic Earth with a pretty bleak and unflattering depiction of the human (and humanoid) race. The main character, Spider Jerusalem, is a completely whacky journalist - turned reclusive mountain-man. When Spider decides to come back to the city to rejoin the human race, crazy shit ensues. I mean craaazy. Dirty jokes, prostitutes, murder, and mentally ustable characters abound.It...was...hilarious! Spider initially made my skin crawl a little. He is a
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