‘Transmetropolitan’ Archives
Transmetropolitan Vol.10: One More Time
All threads are tied up in this volume. Spider unleashes all the evidence he kept for the big finale, effectively taking down the president. Even more chaos ensues, with shooting on students peacefully demonstrating, as well as other riots around the city. Not to mention the media is finally growing balls and rebelling against the president. [...]
Transmetropolitan Vol9: The Cure
The penultimate volume of this series see Spider finally managing to find irrefutable evidence against the president. It again starts with Fred Christ, which makes me wonder why he couldn't have gotten all the truth before from Fred. I know, he had to "follow the rules" because he was a journalist, whereas now he doesn't have to anymore. But he [...]
Transmetropolitan Vol.8: Dirge
This volume is about an event in the print district. First there's an invisible shooter randomly shooting people, so nobody is in the print district, including the press. Then there's no police on the streets due to "blue flu", which is code for somebody high up wanted them to stay home. On top of all that the biggest storm in many years hit the [...]
Transmetropolitan Vol.7: Spider’s Thrash
The Smiler continues his retaliation against Spider, but he doesn't want to kill him. Spider on the other hand continues his revenge working with the Hole, and now he's basically an outlaw. The assistants stick with him, but they're also uncomfortable, so there is tension. I liked the scene with Yelena, where he confesses about the people he [...]
Transmetropolitan Vol.6: Gouge Away
This volume sees Spider getting his revenge on the Smiler. But first we get a funny issue of different versions of Spider drawn by different guest artists. Some of these are on TV, while other are in Spider's dreams. Art wise my favorites are the Bryan Hitch one and the Frank Quitely one. Issue 32 is a standalone story with Spider's [...]
Transmetropolitan Vol.5: Lonely City
We're halfway through the series and things really start to heat up between Spider and the Smiler. The first 3 issues of the volume are standalone stories, and for the rest of the series we'll get alternating 3 issue arcs and 3 issues stand alone stories. The standalone stories are usually narrated by Spider, and they're usually his columns. [...]
Transmetropolitan Vol.4: New Scum
This forth volume focuses on the race between the Beast and the Smiler. Spider's column is so popular that he can influence the voting public, but he doesn't really care about that, all he wants is to reveal the truth, he just hates it when people pretend to be what they're not. Which is why he goes back and forth between the two main [...]
Transmetropolitan Vol.3: Year of the Bastard
This third volume is where the overall plot really starts. This is where Spider starts to cover the presidential election. The focus of this storyline is new candidate the Smiler and his staff, Vita Severin and Alan Schact. At first he's not impressed by the Smiler, but then he becomes friends with Vita and praises at least her role in the [...]
Transmetropolitan Vol.2: Lust for Life
This second volume contains 6 single issues and one 3 issue arc. The single issues are a great way to further explore the world of Spider Jerusalem. We are introduced to his new assistant Channon as well as the current President and his history with Spider. We also find out that Spider has an ex-wife in cryogenic suspension. But the best [...]
Transmetropolitan Vol.1: Back on the street
This was one of the first mature American comics I've read, showing me that American comics were more than just superheroes. This also started my admiration for Warren Ellis, along his Stormwatch/Authority and Planetary series. However once I left for China and was basically out of touch with comics I stopped reading this series. I think I bought [...]