Issue Description

In the near future, gonzo journalist/cult author Spider Jerusalem lives fast and loose in The City--a chaotic melting pot of cultures, subcultures, lifeforms, and technologies. Mastermind writer Warren Ellis (THE AUTHORITY) delivers this sharp, manic, anything-goes extrapolation of urban life.

The issue opens with a view of mountain top along with a flurry of insults towards the "whore hoppers" by our main character Spider Jerusalem.

The "Whore hoppers" are the people who have Spider on contract have become sick of him sitting up in the mountains without giving them a single book. And he has a contract that if not listened too could have dire consequences for his life. So in a manner of not so tasteful words, he agrees to come back to the city, for within the city he is the best at writing.

He gets into the city and is immediately over run by the noises and the people he left it for five years ago. He meets up with his editor at THE WORD, who gives him a deadline the first time he's back eight thousand printable words. All Spider asks for is a apartment and silence. He gets neither, well he does get an apartment but not to the standards he would have enjoyed.

Spider finds his first column...an old friend by the name of Fred Christ.

Transmetropolitan (1997)

Publisher

Vertigo

Volume Description

Transmetropolitan, Warren Ellis' and Darick Robertson's grand pastiche, follows Spider Jerusalem, neo-gonzo journalist extraordinaire, through the backyards and the rooftops of the future. Ellis's wit is bang on the job, surely at its prime, in all its spitfire, vulgar glory. And the nosedive the series takes somewhere in the middle comes with scary accuracy, becoming a soap box commentary on our generation. Touching everything from anthropomorphism to religion to politics with a cheery sense of dread and disgust in its 60 issue run, and featuring one of the scariest governments post-1984, this is one of Vertigo's imprint-defining titles.

Collected EditionsBack on the Street (#1-6)Absolute Transmetropolitan Volume 1 (#1-18)Lust for Life (#7-12)Year of the Bastard (#13-18)The New Scum (#19-24)Absolute Transmetropolitan Volume 2 (#19-36)Lonely City (#25-30)Gouge Away (#31-36)Spider's Thrash (#37-42)Dirge (#43-48)The Cure (#49-54)One More Time (#55-60)

Specials

Filth of the CityI Hate It HereTales of Human Waste: Collects the two specials.

Bonus Material

Around the World: Although inspired by Transmetropolitan, this is not a necessary to enjoying the series and rather something for fans that doubles as a support for people in the comic industry comic creators that are in need of it.

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