Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street

Rereading one of my favorite comics. Woot. ( )

It is quite crazy and profane book. Spider Jerusalem doesn't like people much, he loves to live in mountains. HE is forced to come back to city to earn his living. There begin his crazy travails - run-ins with religious zealots, cults etc.

Can't form my opinion yet, depends on how it shapes up later. It is not a pleasure time reading for me. Rather I read it out of curiosity. ( )

I hope from the title maybe Spider got a cure. Turns out Cure is something else. Spider is trying to come to terms with his 'mortality' and deal with Callahan who is increasingly tying to rein him in.

Spider finds a witness in the wake of mass sympathy Callahan has generated after death of his wife and kids. Spider must find a way out to get his column published before President moves in with martial law. ( )

Sooo, cool cyberpunk dystopia or just pretentious? Gotta find out - it looks cool. I think.

An excellent introduction to the world of Spider Jerusalem if a bit heavy handed on the violence and overall darkness of the world and character, it often came across as trying just a bit to hard to me.
Over all an excellent job in would building and this is a near perfect blend of art, dialog and story and I love the overall feeling of influence of the cyber punk genre but this is definitely its own world and feels frighteningly believable and while I don't like the character of Spider Jerusalem very much I find myself engaged and fascinated by him. ( )