- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Titan Books Ltd; New edition edition (26 Jun 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1848562594
- ISBN-13: 978-1848562592
- Product Dimensions: 25.6 x 16.8 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
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- #15 in Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Characters & Series > Transmetropolitan
- #65 in Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Authors > Ellis, Warren
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"Explosive storytelling and provocative politics." - --Entertainment Weekly
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From the acclaimed writer of "The Authority", Warren Ellis, the return of the smash-hit series that managed to shock, move and thought-provoke in one foul swoop! Spider Jerusalem is back in the City, writing again: his subjects this time include the transformation of man into cloud; the grim fate awaiting the 'revivals' brought back from 20th century cryogenic suspension; and the 'reservations', where entire cultures are preserved for eternity. But Spider's past is catching up with him - in the form of a vengeful, frozen ex-wife, a crazed police dog, and the son he never knew he had! Acclaimed writer Warren Ellis ("X-Men") and artist Darick Robertson ("The Boys") invite you back to visit their dysfunctional dystopia!
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Format:Paperback
A mixed bag of Transmet stories here, as we build up both Spider as a character & his assistant Channon, and also more fully realise the media-saturated & soulless futuristic world of the City. Here we see:
* Spider Jerusalem take on the President in a public toilet.
* Spider investigating TV and becoming a broken man... ("Coming up next on the Single Male Virgin Channel...")
* Spider visiting a religious convention, with a look at the many bizzare religions of the future. ("My life was nothing before I castrated myself.")
* A look at the Foglets, an incredibly cool and thought-provoking sci-fi concept.
* Spider visiting the Reservations, areas of the city simulating past cultures.
* Spider on the run from the whole city after getting a death threat in the form of a petition signed by 500 and after having his ex-wife's head stolen from cryogenics. ("I have given this considerable thought and have decided I don't give two tugs of a dead dog's c**k what you do with my EX-wife and you can have her.")
* And best of all, the deadly serious and emotional "A Cold Place", telling the story of the Revivals- people from previous eras ressurected in the future. It's not a pretty site, and a vicious attack on our culture's willingness to dump our past in the bin.
You shall buy this...
Format:Paperback
This second volume is where we really see the series find its feet and we launch fully into the weird and wonderful world of Spider Jerusalem's with a tale about humans wanting to turn into sentient gas clouds, the harrowing story of the cryogenically unfrozen, synthetic reservations where you could choose to live in a past civilisation, and finally a three part story of Spider's ex-wife's revenge.
All of the stories have the verbal acrobatics and freewheeling genius level writing of Warren Ellis in every panel helped along with Darick Robertson's superb artwork. All of the stories have elements of originality, humour, and artfully expressed bile through the increasingly more interesting figure of the most hateful man on the planet, Spider Jerusalem. The book serves to introduce the reader more fully into this world where the grotesque and comical elements of society converge joyfully on the page and shows the reader that in this series anything can happen.
The three part story that closes this book, "Freeze Me with your Kiss", is fantastic and worth buying this book for alone. Spider's ex-wife (a frozen head) manages to organise a hit on him before she froze herself so Spider goes on the run from a squad of assassins who hate the outside world. Throw in a headless child bomb, an allusion to a war against France where the loser lost the ability to speak French, ever, and a castrated police bulldog with brain damage who only lives to murder Spider, and its amazing how much brilliance Ellis and Robertson cram into a short story and turn it into pure reading gold.
If you've never read "Transmetropolitan" go back and read the first book then dive headfirst into this second one. I'm re-reading the series and can tell you every book is worth reading, and "Lust for Life" is Spider Jerusalem at his filthiest best.
All of the stories have the verbal acrobatics and freewheeling genius level writing of Warren Ellis in every panel helped along with Darick Robertson's superb artwork. All of the stories have elements of originality, humour, and artfully expressed bile through the increasingly more interesting figure of the most hateful man on the planet, Spider Jerusalem. The book serves to introduce the reader more fully into this world where the grotesque and comical elements of society converge joyfully on the page and shows the reader that in this series anything can happen.
The three part story that closes this book, "Freeze Me with your Kiss", is fantastic and worth buying this book for alone. Spider's ex-wife (a frozen head) manages to organise a hit on him before she froze herself so Spider goes on the run from a squad of assassins who hate the outside world. Throw in a headless child bomb, an allusion to a war against France where the loser lost the ability to speak French, ever, and a castrated police bulldog with brain damage who only lives to murder Spider, and its amazing how much brilliance Ellis and Robertson cram into a short story and turn it into pure reading gold.
If you've never read "Transmetropolitan" go back and read the first book then dive headfirst into this second one. I'm re-reading the series and can tell you every book is worth reading, and "Lust for Life" is Spider Jerusalem at his filthiest best.
Format:Paperback
Two-stars because our hero's repellent, or four for the satire (car ad: The Ibuzu Extension - Make it feel BIGGER)? I went with four. Monstrous spawn of DC, Mad Magazine and 'head' comics of my youth, but there's plenty worse out there I don't doubt, and it's miles better than the mindless action comics of yore and compared to almost all TV it makes you (forces you to?) think. See also my assessment over on amazon.com
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Buy all 10 in the series! NOW!
Ok your not going to like this if you are conservative or easily offended. It's irreverent, outspoken and full of righteous indignation and I love it. Read more
Published on 7 April 2007 by Dan Bunn
A tour of hell... or at least the city...
'Let me say now that with your history of drug abuse it was conceivable that you could produce a child with no head... Read more
Published on 12 April 2005 by Sable Unadorned
Modern day parables for life
Quite frankly, the pinnacle of graphic novels. Sometimes shocking, always brilliant, Ellis expertly weaves the characterisation, plot and dialogue from seemingly dischordant... Read more
Published on 17 Dec 2001 by sgt_duck@hotmail.com
Not really much good
The first few stories in this book are readable enough, though Spider Jerusalem isn't really a character, just a mouthpiece for Warren Ellis' own views. Read more
Published on 19 Nov 2001 by Mr. P. Johnson
Some of the greatest stories ever told, regardless of medium
Anyone who didmisses comics as "for kids" must read this. A sellection of short stories centering around a journalist in the future. Read more
Published on 17 Jun 2001 by e_cleland@yahoo.com
Slightly uninspired
Not the best I've seen from the writer. The storylines seemed a bit conceited, and the made up noir cynicism got a bit annoying
Published on 29 Oct 2000
Spider on top form
With this second collection of Transmetroploitan stories both Ellis and Robertson have really found their feet. Read more
Published on 4 Sep 1999
Possibly the best comic currently in publication.
Neck and neck with Preacher for being the best, this book rocks. Filled with savage critisim, a cynical exterior, and somehow filled with hope for a better world. Read more
Published on 31 July 1999
Makes being mean all the cooler
Probably the finest work of cynical writing I've ever encountered. Ellis amazingly takes this journalist Spider Jerusalem and makes him into the smartest, angriest, craziest... Read more
Published on 21 Jun 1999
Makes being mean all the cooler
Probably the finest work of cynical writing I've ever encountered. Ellis amazingly takes this journalist Spider Jerusalem and makes him into the smartest, angriest, craziest... Read more
Published on 21 Jun 1999
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