false 22417 2 After making his presence known in <i>Transmetropolitan: Back On The Streets</i>, renegade columnist Spider 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.' Contains Transmetropolitan #4-12. 932279 1 2 1999 Transmetropolitan Vol. 2: Lust for Life total:1476|5:792|4:509|3:153|2:18|1:4| 1476 6495 1683 38 4 12 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 13:03:44 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 13:06:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 14:26:41 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 14:58:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 18:19:39 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 11:17:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 23:30:03 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 29 23:44:05 -0700 2009 Transmetropolitan: Lust for Life (DC, 1998)

The great thing about Transmetropolitan is that Warren Ellis seems to remember something that no satirist since Mark Twain has gotten right; while the heart of any satire is soaked in acid, the surface is supposed to be funny. It's...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 11:45:19 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 12:02:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 13 13:59:53 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 13 14:04:42 -0800 2007 TransMetropolitan is definitely not your momma's comic book. The "hero," Spider Jerusalem, is a foul-mouthed, chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, misanthropic journalist forced to return to the city from his mountain hide-out to fulfill the terms of his book deal. And what a city it is. El...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 22:38:46 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 29 22:53:10 -0700 2007
A lot of people first noticed Warren Ellis's writing with this series, and with good reason. It is all-out, thought-driven sci-fi with a nasty edge and a sometimes unlikeable main character. But for all of tha...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Dec 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 07 07:26:44 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 07:29:10 -0800 2009 Transmet dances over it, only making its argument (basically, screw it...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 05:19:09 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 05:23:12 -0800 2008 Transmetropolitan seems more about creating a world, like Fables and dipping into it for this story or that, while building a larger narrative in the background (maybe). At any rate, while the first volume of the series...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 18:48:59 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 18:53:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jul 11 09:11:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 07:39:40 -0700 2008
What matters is that I bought and read volume 1 months ago, liked it after a fashion but didn't liquify to ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 11:22:06 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 11:34:23 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Jun 17 20:38:36 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 17 20:41:04 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Mar 23 14:04:20 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 14:05:04 -0700 2009 3 0 true false Fri Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 09:01:59 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 09:08:12 -0700 2009 2 ]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 08:33:44 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 06:27:37 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 05:26:15 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 10:23:49 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 16:34:02 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 12:21:09 -0800 2009
We'll see how desperate I get.]]> 2 0 false false Fri Oct 30 22:48:42 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 22:49:07 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 27 00:14:54 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 10 00:03:15 -0800 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=22417