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55 reviews for:
Transmetropolitan: o flagelo de Spider
Rodney Ramos, Patrick Stewart, Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson
4.39 AVERAGE
55 reviews for:
Transmetropolitan: o flagelo de Spider
Rodney Ramos, Patrick Stewart, Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson
4.39 AVERAGE
Might be my favorite volume yet. The main story arc--centered around a massive police/gov't cover-up (and massacre)--is setting up for a mega Spider psycho rant and roll.
This is the darkest book so far with little if any of the previous twisted humor from before and it needs to be dark to set up the story to come. The threads from the last few books are coming together and a war is about to start.
The set up for this has been amazing and the quality of the writing, art and characterization just keep getting better and better. As much as I'm dreading what is to come, I can't wait to read the next book.
The set up for this has been amazing and the quality of the writing, art and characterization just keep getting better and better. As much as I'm dreading what is to come, I can't wait to read the next book.
Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan: Lonely City (Vertigo, 2001)
Lonely City starts out with much the same problem The New Scum had, in that Ellis has sacrificed a good deal of the series' humor in order to amp up the social commentary. That said, he makes up for it in spades in the latter half of the book, which gets us back into the plot, and the convulsive humor germane to the series. I'm back to my slavish adoration of Transmetropolitan with the second half of Lonely City, with Spider and his assistants actually doing something as opposed to Ellis hand-feeding us Spider-written columns. *** ½
Lonely City starts out with much the same problem The New Scum had, in that Ellis has sacrificed a good deal of the series' humor in order to amp up the social commentary. That said, he makes up for it in spades in the latter half of the book, which gets us back into the plot, and the convulsive humor germane to the series. I'm back to my slavish adoration of Transmetropolitan with the second half of Lonely City, with Spider and his assistants actually doing something as opposed to Ellis hand-feeding us Spider-written columns. *** ½
This collection is moving. It drags you into and through the mud of a city that is, at best, a caricature of modern life. Our politicians perhaps not as transparent (though one could argue...), our highs not as high and our lows not as dead. At worst, this volume shows us our society as it really is.
If you want to feel, read this series and this book in particular. If you want to feel good things, fuck off. These emotions are real, despite being conveyed through cartoon and print, and real is usually ugly.
If you want to feel, read this series and this book in particular. If you want to feel good things, fuck off. These emotions are real, despite being conveyed through cartoon and print, and real is usually ugly.
It's been a while since I've read Vol. 4 of Transmetropolitan, so it was really nice to jump back into the world of Spider again. The story is just as crazy as I remember, and I really like the cutthroat nature of the protagonist. The vile, blunt, disgusting dialogue is why I fell for this series in the first place - people need to start hearing the truth about humanity, nastiness and all.