Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Vertigo (1999), Paperback, 208 pages
Description
In this volume, Jerusalem targets three of society's most worshipped and warped pillars: politics, religion, and television. When Spider tries to shed light on the atrocities of these institutions, he finds himself fleeing a group of hitmen/kidnappers in possession of his ex-wife's frozen head, a distorted creature alleging to be his son, and a vicious talking police dog.
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LibraryThing member slothman
A dizzying journey through the future world in which Spider Jerusalem seeks out the Truth. Warren Ellis spins a demented world living through a high-tech race to the bottom where nanotechnology has drastically lowered the barriers to entry of new products of any sort, and all manner of wild
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behavior ensues. We get looks at a world that frenetically creates new religions and subcontracts the revival of cryogenically frozen people to the lowest bidder, but still makes the effort to create reservations to preserve historical cultures that would otherwise be swamped in the incredible noise coming from mainstream society. Show Less
LibraryThing member flourishing
Spider's walk through Redchurch.Here Spider really comes into his own as an ironist - as a person who cares so much that he can't care, won't care, doesn't care, has to shield himself from caring because the world is going to do nothing but disappoint him.That's an attitude that I think a lot of
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people know well. Show Less
LibraryThing member Knicke
Wooooyeaaah! Everything I like in a good comic book. Two big hunks of Hunter S. and Bill Gibson, stirred up together and nuked into oblivion. My fave bit (though it skirts the line of good taste) was the tireless murderous K9 bulldog.
LibraryThing member flourishing
1. Moments of tenderness in Transmetropolitan are much more effective than moments of tenderness in other comics, I think because they're so rare. 95% of the time Spider is being as loud, coarse, and vulgar as possible, and then suddenly the vulgarity all turns into - something not at all vulgar.
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Which is a lot like non-comic life, if you bother to sink down into it.2. This episode in particular seems like something that might actually happen. It does. I hate to be that cynical, but it does, and you know that if you follow events to do with the police and genderqueer and/or transgendered folks. Show Less
LibraryThing member flourishing
Spider's walk through Redchurch.Here Spider really comes into his own as an ironist - as a person who cares so much that he can't care, won't care, doesn't care, has to shield himself from caring because the world is going to do nothing but disappoint him.That's an attitude that I think a lot of
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people know well. Show Less
LibraryThing member flourishing
"Lust for Life" is about what living really means - questions of whether you are still you once you've been revived from the dead, translated into a computer, etc etc. Unlike most books that dwell on this topic, though, Transmet dances over it, only making its argument (basically, screw it, you're
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you and there's no point worrying about philosophy) as casually as it can.Also, the scene where Spider tromps through the convention of new religious movements is priceless. Show Less
LibraryThing member flourishing
Transmet is one of my favorite comics, and this volume is purely - purely - about the power and joy of the spoken word.
LibraryThing member flourishing
The segment with the various Spider Jerusalem TV shows? Priceless.This is the book that sets Spider and the Filthy Assistants free - the book that lets them become unchained. It's mostly transitional, but nonetheless, has such a sense of possibility about it!
LibraryThing member flourishing
1. Moments of tenderness in Transmetropolitan are much more effective than moments of tenderness in other comics, I think because they're so rare. 95% of the time Spider is being as loud, coarse, and vulgar as possible, and then suddenly the vulgarity all turns into - something not at all vulgar.
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Which is a lot like non-comic life, if you bother to sink down into it.2. This episode in particular seems like something that might actually happen. It does. I hate to be that cynical, but it does, and you know that if you follow events to do with the police and genderqueer and/or transgendered folks. Show Less
LibraryThing member flourishing
"Lust for Life" is about what living really means - questions of whether you are still you once you've been revived from the dead, translated into a computer, etc etc. Unlike most books that dwell on this topic, though, Transmet dances over it, only making its argument (basically, screw it, you're
Show More
you and there's no point worrying about philosophy) as casually as it can.Also, the scene where Spider tromps through the convention of new religious movements is priceless. Show Less
LibraryThing member flourishing
Transmet is one of my favorite comics, and this volume is purely - purely - about the power and joy of the spoken word.
LibraryThing member Kellswitch
The first book was an introduction to the characters and their world and this is the book where you really start to get to know them.
I loved the use of both darkness and humor in this book, it felt far more balanced here than in the first one and I felt far more connected to the stories here as
I loved the use of both darkness and humor in this book, it felt far more balanced here than in the first one and I felt far more connected to the stories here as
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well. Warren Ellis's take on religion, TV, human nature and the social/political scene were spot on and will probably still be relevant ten to twenty years from now. Show Less
LibraryThing member flourishing
The segment with the various Spider Jerusalem TV shows? Priceless.This is the book that sets Spider and the Filthy Assistants free - the book that lets them become unchained. It's mostly transitional, but nonetheless, has such a sense of possibility about it!
LibraryThing member BruceCoulson
One of the few actual science-fiction graphic novels. As we follow gonzo journalist Spider Jerusalem on his Iliad through the City, we are shown glimpses of an alien but familiar society. Alien because the the technology, the assumptions are so different; familiar because we can see people wanting
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to do these things, if they could. In some ways, Ellis's story (corrupt government becomes even more corrupt, heroic loner has to bring both to justice) is overshadowed by the fascinating world Spider lives in. Show Less
LibraryThing member ancameme
Better than the first volume. I loved the artwork. And I actually found myself laughing out loud once or twice.
LibraryThing member Rosa.Mill
Liked this one a lot too though not as much as the first one. Love the crazy storyline convergences in this.
LibraryThing member Rosa.Mill
Liked this one a lot too though not as much as the first one. Love the crazy storyline convergences in this.
LibraryThing member Rosa.Mill
Liked this one a lot too though not as much as the first one. Love the crazy storyline convergences in this.
LibraryThing member Rosa.Mill
Liked this one a lot too though not as much as the first one. Love the crazy storyline convergences in this.
LibraryThing member hhornblower
Just not my thing. A friend gave me the first two volumes, the first one was ok, this was just more of same. I couldn't wait to be done with it. The artwork is well done, and I tend to have a rather bleak vision of the future, but this is a bit much.
LibraryThing member bdgamer
Hilarious and thought provoking at the same time. Unique.
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Physical description
208 p.; 9.9 inches
ISBN
1563894815 / 9781563894817