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Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard by Rodney Ramos, Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson
mikibooks's review against another edition
5.0
Si tuviera 10 estrellitas, se las daría. Sobre todo porque mi querido Spider se mete de lleno en la campaña. Y de esa forma, con mi profesión. Ay, dios, qué placer que es esto.
dantastic's review against another edition
4.0
This collects issues 13-18 of Transmetropolitan. Spider Jerusalem covers an election and no matter who wins, everyone is fucked. Not unlike other elections I could name. This one was a humdinger. Political machinations, violence, drugs, more politics, and more drugs. The elections of Spider's dystopian future are even bigger shitshows than some of ours. I wasn't planning on going further than this since I don't have any of the other volumes on hand but I'm going to if I can score them on the cheap.
ppetropoulakis's review against another edition
4.0
Spider Jerusalem does not like the president of the United States and it is election time. The insane journalist will raise hell for all candidates in order to influence the elections.
mel_emzo's review against another edition
5.0
Warren Ellis explores the dark underbelly of human impulses in the acid-trip-neon dystopian future.
Transmetropolitan is not for the faint hearted or the soft stomached. At turns full of shock value and introspective philosophy, this series uses extreme situations to search for meaning and truth. A world driven on power, hedonism, and inequality seems entirely unlike our own, until you look a bit closer, and then are asked...
'what would you do? what can anyone do?'
But follow the mad cap journey of Spider Jerusalem's whims, and you won't despair for long.!
Transmetropolitan is not for the faint hearted or the soft stomached. At turns full of shock value and introspective philosophy, this series uses extreme situations to search for meaning and truth. A world driven on power, hedonism, and inequality seems entirely unlike our own, until you look a bit closer, and then are asked...
'what would you do? what can anyone do?'
But follow the mad cap journey of Spider Jerusalem's whims, and you won't despair for long.!
lunchlander's review against another edition
4.0
Terrifyingly apropos to modern politics. Spider Jerusalem's "PSA" on voting is probably the most apt description of the phenomenon that I've read:
"You want to know about voting. I'm here to tell you about voting. Imagine you're locked in a huge underground nightclub filled with sinners, whores, freaks and unnameable things that rape pit bulls for fun. And you ain't allowed out until you all vote on what you're going to do tonight."
"You like to put your feet up and watch 'Republican Party Reservation.' They like to have sex with normal people using knives, guns and brand new sexual organs that you did not know existed. So you vote for television, and everyone else, as far as your eye can see, votes to fuck you with switchblades."
"That's voting. You're welcome."
"You want to know about voting. I'm here to tell you about voting. Imagine you're locked in a huge underground nightclub filled with sinners, whores, freaks and unnameable things that rape pit bulls for fun. And you ain't allowed out until you all vote on what you're going to do tonight."
"You like to put your feet up and watch 'Republican Party Reservation.' They like to have sex with normal people using knives, guns and brand new sexual organs that you did not know existed. So you vote for television, and everyone else, as far as your eye can see, votes to fuck you with switchblades."
"That's voting. You're welcome."
lunaseassecondaccount's review against another edition
4.0
Okay, I'm starting to get this series now. I'm actually starting to find it a bit funny- I laughed out loud at some parts. I still can't say I like Spider, but somehow I don't think he is meant to be 100% likable. I like parts of him, sure- his quest to truth and all that- but he's a bit too extreme for my political tastes. Good in theory, ends justifying means, etc etc.
But I'm starting to like it, which is a nice breath of fresh air. I might have to go and nick the fourth volume off Peter.
But I'm starting to like it, which is a nice breath of fresh air. I might have to go and nick the fourth volume off Peter.