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Title: Transmetropolitan: Lust for Life - Book 2 by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson ISBN: 1-56389-481-5 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (16 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: a fine thing
Comment: The first book in the collected Transmetropolitan comics, Back on the Street, covers the first three issues. This, the second book, covers issues 4-12. While the first is pounding with intensity, here Spider Jerusalem settles into his setting and is put through his paces. Having gotten Spider out of his mountain retreat and back to reporting, it seems writer Warren Ellis started casting about to find something for Spider to do. A few of the issues are slower than the insanity of the first three, possibly meant as quiet, sarcastic reflection on social issues. That the series is, if not strictly autobiographical, at least very close to Ellis's heart, is clear. I would hope that the comic could remain as intense, even when its protagonist is writing about somber topics. Then again, Spider's columns are what the comic is about, and if these issues aren't full of heart-pounding action, they are still very good. The issue in which Spider becomes TV is almost completely static (a full three pages, 18 frames, consist of nothing but a view of Spider sitting in his chair) but is still one of the best stories. The pace picks up again in the last three issues, a 3-part story that has Spider pursued around The City by a neatness cult carrying his ex-wife's head in a jar. Extra-spectacular is the death of the police dog.
Rating: 5
Summary: Makes being mean all the cooler
Comment: 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 champion of the truth the printed page has seen in forever. Read this, but if you find yourself singing its praises and writing one of these reviews online, you wonder if Ellis is having a laugh at you.
Rating: 4
Summary: one half of a two sided coin
Comment: TRANSMETROPOLITAN is, at it's whollest core, future shock. it is how ellis and robertson illustrate future shock that make TRANS great. being an aspiring comics artist / writer, i make an attempt to look past the surface and steryotypes of a comic to what it is, how well the art can bring life to story, and how the writing can tip off to an artists quirks and style. TRANS sadly, shines through only writing. while the art is impressive, it does nothing more than illustrate words. simply, put, TRANS is great without the art. evry character brings their own personality to the playing board, and bounce off of one another, the only untrue reflection of this would have to be ziang, spider's assistant's lover/ boyfriend. while he play's a role in the changing of a character, his personality is mostly one sided ie he wants sex, all of it that he can get(provided it isn't with jerusalem's two headed cat). coming back to the art, the writer rarely gives robertson his own space, where there is no writing, and where the art can shine, and if he does, robertson takes little to no adavantage to it. despite it's faults, transmetropolitan is a masterpiece of the future we love to read, but hate to live in. reccommended for every one with the 5th element in the shelves.
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Title: Transmetropolitan: The New Scum - Book 4 by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson ISBN: 1563896273 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Transmetropolitan : Lonely City by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos ISBN: 1563897229 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Transmetropolitan: Gouge Away - Book 6 (Transmetropolitan) by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson ISBN: 1563897962 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Transmetropolitan: Spider's Thrash by Warren Ellis ISBN: 1563898942 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Transmetropolitan: Dirge - Book 8 by Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson ISBN: 1563899531 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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