Who remembers the mature comic series, Transmetropolitan?!? Starring the star journalist, Spider Jerusalem in his quest to get the evil smiler out of office? Anyone? If anyone knows what I'm talking about let us dwell in the awesomeness that was Transmetropolitan!

it was a truly great series.

it's over now.

i've talked all about it while it was still an ongoing series, so you'll forgive me for not wanting to rehash my thoughts on the series years later.

I got to borrow the first book for twenty minutes and have it explained to me while I tried to read it. Despite this it I actually did like it. There have been a few people that said I ought to read the rest of the series, I just never got around to it.
My favorite part was Spider going to take a shower and having all of his hair burnt off.

patrickdevine
I got to borrow the first book for twenty minutes and have it explained to me while I tried to read it. Despite this it I actually did like it. There have been a few people that said I ought to read the rest of the series, I just never got around to it.
My favorite part was Spider going to take a shower and having all of his hair burnt off.

That was one of my favorite parts too.

I read the whole series but only checked them out of the library but I wanted to own them so I pirated them. These were copied straight from the comics themselves. I found out there was a little more in the actual comics than there was in the compilation books. There was all of Spider's articles in The Word and there are all the covers in really high quality and just a few other things that weren't in the compilation books.

I've been rereading my old Transmet trades on and off for the past couple of months.

I don't know if it's the best series that Warren Ellis wrote, but it's certainly the one that is the Warren Elliest. (To paraphrase Charles Schultz)

I find Transmet to be obnoxious, snarky, clever, cynical, inventive, ridiculous, oddly prescient, and funny. It's like Hunter S. Thompson vomited some day old Scotch into the brain of George Orwell.

Air Raid Robertson
I've been rereading my old Transmet trades on and off for the past couple of months.

I don't know if it's the best series that Warren Ellis wrote, but it's certainly the one that is the Warren Elliest. (To paraphrase Charles Schultz)

I find Transmet to be obnoxious, snarky, clever, cynical, inventive, ridiculous, oddly prescient, and funny. It's like Hunter S. Thompson vomited some day old Scotch into the brain of George Orwell.

You, sir, are truly awesome!

Definitely one of my favorite comics. I find it kind of funny that his unusual glasses were technically just a fluke of his matter creator that he ended up kind of liking, but when we see him in flashbacks he has similar glasses just the audience can identify him more easily. The same with the bald thing; from what you can see he has no personal inclination to being bald: it's just something that happened to him, yet in flashbacks and the like he's bald again just so you can see his spider tattoo.

Inkmonkey
Definitely one of my favorite comics. I find it kind of funny that his unusual glasses were technically just a fluke of his matter creator that he ended up kind of liking, but when we see him in flashbacks he has similar glasses just the audience can identify him more easily. The same with the bald thing; from what you can see he has no personal inclination to being bald: it's just something that happened to him, yet in flashbacks and the like he's bald again just so you can see his spider tattoo.

I...love...those...glasses! I always wanted a pair ever since I stared reading it!

Yeah I found that quite interesting that he had a similar pair in a flashback but I think that those only functioned as a camera but not with a fashion statement bonus like the second ones became.

I also liked how in the flashbacks he had a small patch of his hair shaved so you could see his tattoo.

The comic just all around kicked ass!