Product Description

From the acclaimed writer of "The Authority", Warren Ellis, the return of the smash-hit series that managed to shock, move and thought-provoke in one foul swoop! It's election time, and that's bad news for Spider Jerusalem, the journalist who's returned to a bleakly funny future world from self-imposed exile. On one hand, there's incumbent President and Jerusalem's old bete noire, the Beast; on the other, smiling, vacuous Gary Callahan. Oh, and there's the small matter of Spider's new assistant...and his old one, too! Acclaimed writer Warren Ellis ("X-Men") and artist Darick Robertson ("The Boys") invite you back to visit their dysfunctional dystopia.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #318393 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-25
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Review
"Ellis both subverts and elevates." -- --Joss Whedon - creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Beautifully angry stuff --Metal Hammer

About the Author
Warren Ellis has created and written for The Authority, Transmetropolitan, Orbiter, the award-winning Planetary, and the forthcoming Ministry of Space. Darick Robertson is the artist and co-creator of Transmetropolitan. He is also the artist on The Boys and Fury, and creator of Space Beaver.

Customer Reviews

Cynical, nasty, funny - and accurate. Spider does politics!
I ought to point out that this is volume three of Transmetropolitan. Read the two previous books ('Back on the Streets' & 'Lust for Life') first, as they set the scene and introduce the characters. They're also very good stories in their own right.

'Year of the Bastard' is where the main theme of Transmetropolitan takes centre stage. Spider's never been happy to simply write about the City - he wants to change it. He sees the president ("The Beast") as a symbol of everything that's wrong with the system. And it's an election year, so he finally gets his chance to shake things up...

While it still has moments of pure humour, the vicious slapstick of some earlier tales fades into the background as Spider gets entangled with spin doctors and would-be presidential candidates. This is a plot-driven tale of twists and turns, where everyone has an agenda. To reveal anything further would be to spoil it.

Just don't expect to see a resolution where the plot threads are all neatly tied - this is the first section of a longer storyline, and while there's a (very) definite ending to it, it also carries a lot of plot over into the sequel, 'The New Scum'. I think it'll carry an awful lot of readers over, too...

If you like politics, or if you loathe politics, this is well worth a look. Warren Ellis has outdone himself on this one.

Spider gets in the ring...
'Gary Callahan is a genuinely educated, intelligent man. He has honorable people working for him and political fixers tell me he's going to be president. He's also a fake.'

Dangerous journalist Spider Jerusalem finally succumbs to covering the presidential election campaign, and immediately finds himself facing a dilemma - who do you endorse when both the candidates are utterly repulsive in different ways?

If all this seems rather familiar, there's a reason. Ellis's huge socio-political satire hits its stride with Spider entering the fray, complete with filthy assistants, bowel-disruptor gun and large amounts of narcotics.

By turns funny, striking and (certainly at the end) genuinely shocking. A must-read.

Spider gets political
In this superd collection of Transmet our hero gets his teeth into politics. Much amusing goings-on involving assistants, the "whore-hopper" editor, a better appartment and more drugs in the background keep our Spider on top form to face his most hated subject - Presidential candidates. Aiming his type writer like a gun at the collective sphincters of the parties making them "loose", "watery", "fiery" and "prolapse". Finding a new setting of $*@* into unconciousness.... Anyway, I won't tell you more of the story suffice to say I loved it and eagerly await the next collection. If you have the rest of them get this one now or I shall arm the ebola bomb behind your toilet. Cheers LostPkt