Spider Jerusalem has walked away from his legitimate job and taken up guerrilla journalism, publishing through an outlaw webzine. This volume weaves in a couple of long-term themes— Spider’s desire for vengeance on the President and his declining health— with some looks at social issues that, sadly, aren’t much exaggerated from the modern day. The latter I can get from Mother Jones, backed up with facts to cite when discussing policy, so seeing painful problems translated into the Transmetropolitan world wasn’t really a thrill. On the other hand, if putting these things in a comic book wakes some people up to the messed-up world we live in, then Ellis is doing a good thing. I still want to read the next volume. ( )

Spider is still working underground, for an independent web publisher, to get his work out there. The government would still censor him in a hot second, and he has pretty much pissed off everyone, including his filthy assistants.

That is not the only problem he has, while people would like to get rid of him, his own body may just do the job for them.

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