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bandherbooks's review against another edition
4.0
Profane, dirty, raunchy, a ton of fun, but also super subversive. I was dubious at first but after Spider Jerusalem got his assistant to trade banter with, I was sold. I especially liked the TV watching issue (Air Jesus shoes!) and when Spider decides to take on the millions of (new) religions that infest his world. Classic Jesus flippin' out in the temple mode.
otherwyrld's review against another edition
5.0
Reading the first volume of Transmetropolitan for the first time, I feel that I've been shot between the eyes with a bullet coated in a variety of psychedelic drugs which is giving me the trip of my life as I die. There's more ideas per page than I think I've ever seen in a graphic novel before.
It's not just that though, it's the heart and soul that comes pouring off the pages as well. The author is angry about so many things - the violence and brutality of the police, the corruption of the media, the self-serving greed of the politicians , the hypocrisy of organised religion. The President of the United States comes in for a particularly well-deserved hammering from our protagonist Spider Jerusalem which would read like an excoriation of the current president if this hadn't been written 20 years ago. That's the depressing reality, that everything is still the same and probably always will be the same, unless you have something like Spider come along to really shake things up.
Despite the whole mass of unlikeable traits, Spider comes across as someone who deep down really cares, and you really wish that his point of view will win out but you know it won't. He exhibits certain christ-like qualities at times, if Christ was a drugged up jacked out shock jock with a mass of tattoos, a two-headed cat that smokes and an assistant that used to be a stripper. At one point he even cleans out the temple - in this case a whole bunch of new religions that are shilling their wares to an ever gullible public.
It's a wild ride and won't be to everyone's taste but I loved this.
It's not just that though, it's the heart and soul that comes pouring off the pages as well. The author is angry about so many things - the violence and brutality of the police, the corruption of the media, the self-serving greed of the politicians , the hypocrisy of organised religion. The President of the United States comes in for a particularly well-deserved hammering from our protagonist Spider Jerusalem which would read like an excoriation of the current president if this hadn't been written 20 years ago. That's the depressing reality, that everything is still the same and probably always will be the same, unless you have something like Spider come along to really shake things up.
Despite the whole mass of unlikeable traits, Spider comes across as someone who deep down really cares, and you really wish that his point of view will win out but you know it won't. He exhibits certain christ-like qualities at times, if Christ was a drugged up jacked out shock jock with a mass of tattoos, a two-headed cat that smokes and an assistant that used to be a stripper. At one point he even cleans out the temple - in this case a whole bunch of new religions that are shilling their wares to an ever gullible public.
It's a wild ride and won't be to everyone's taste but I loved this.
ellioth's review against another edition
3.0
Tiene sus momentos donde me estallé de risa dos minutos seguidos, pero el primero fue mucho mejor.
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