false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167349099m/22420.jpg 22420 2 Nobody ever accused Warren Ellis of lacking imagination. The latest collection of the Spider Jerusalem saga, <I>Transmetropolitan: Lonely City</I>, is packed with laser-guided satire and neo-adolescent wish fulfillment in the form of a bowel disruptor. Sliding his story of government manipulation and counter-manipulation between moments of reflection and observation makes Ellis's downbeat ending a bit less nihilistic than it could have been. Despite the gulf separating us from Jerusalem's City, it's not hard to draw parallels between his milieu of police-run riots and state-maintained misery and our own less colorful environment. <I>Lonely City</I> drags the man who's more "anti" than "hero" out into the world he professes to hate and forces him to do something about it, while never descending into the boring comic-book morality he fights daily. <I>--Rob Lightner</I> 23446 1 7 2001 Transmetropolitan Vol. 5: Lonely City total:1144|5:657|4:366|3:110|2:9|1:2| 1144 5099 1330 16 5 0 false false Thu Dec 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 07 07:33:27 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 07:41:17 -0800 2009 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. Wh...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 07 20:50:18 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 29 23:29:46 -0700 2009 Transmetropolitan: Lonely City (Vertigo, 2001)

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