Review of Transmetropolitan Vol. 1: Back on the Street

Transmetropolitan Vol. 1: Back on the Street
Warren Ellis writes Darick Robertson draws
01 February, 1998 — $7.95 — Book

The original inspiration as to how I would approach this lil waste of space. The "hero" is named Spider Jerusalem. He's a journalist. He's a prick and revels in that fact. He's a chain smoking; drinking and pill popping, jerk who only cares about the truth. But that's just his armor. He's an intelligent man who wants the city to look beyond it's own filth and lies to find the truth. He has a heart and he shows it in the climactic point of this book. He wants the world to open their eyes to the depravity that surrounds it, and do something about it. He is the voice of people who have no voice.
The story takes place in "The City", a nihilistic and technologically overloaded hell. Spider is a retired journalist, who had left for his own sanity, and is dragged back because of a book contract that he HAS to fulfill. So he comes back the City. Than he goes to work, telling the dirty and ugly truth, to save some innocent people, and in the end pays the price for interfering with the police, and the brutal punishment that they were delivering.
This really is a great story with some chuckles, a lot of violence and the first step towards Spider Jerusalem's ultimate destiny.

Jose