Transmetropolitan
WRITER Warren Ellis ARTIST Darick Robertson

TransmetropolitanWelcome to the City!

Spider Jerusalem is a journalist at The Word, a paper at which his friend, Mitchell Royce, is city editor. Jerulasem is a hero and an anti-hero. He’s the modern super-hero where the super-hero lacks the super powers and the righteous-perfect-human-qualities. He’s just a swearing, smoking, violent city inhabitant. And still, closing the book I know he’s also the city-hero.

This is a cyberpunk vision. It has the odd humor which’ll only fit in a comic book, and a huge amount of irony. The City is buried in a dystopian future, probably not for the people living in it. But still for us not yet there. The most detailed example is when a woman, from the nineties, is woken from her cryonic sleep, to face the world. It’s a long finger in the face of cryonists today, perhaps the future isn’t as bright and perhaps eternal life isn’t as sweet as it sounds.

The media is described as something as close as possible to what would have been criminal today. It’s implemented into the society to an extent that one can’t cross the street without being subjected to five different media types from three different broadcasting stations.

And when you’ve read the comic, check out some of Spider Jerusalem’s columns for the Word. Among others, the now notorious "I Hate it here" (mentioned in the comic).

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