Product Description

Meet Spider Jerusalem, a smart-mouthed, heavily-armed, perpetually smoking reporter of the future as he reacquaints himself with Transmetropolitan's fringe elements, and goes head-to-head with "The Smiler" and "The Beast", two very different candidates for the US Presidential Election.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #87229 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan series has rightly garnered much praise from a number of quarters (Cyberpunk's finest, Bruce Sterling, loves it!). In Spider Jerusalem, Ellis's angry, intelligent, polemical journalist hero, he has found a powerful character through whom to transmit his scepticism around issues of government, power, representation and truth. But this is not a dull and "worthy" comic--it is often funny, beautifully drawn, with great futuristic details, and it contains some of the sparkiest, most authentic writing around.

In this part of the series, Spider, the voice of the City's hopeless masses, the New Scum, finds himself living in extreme luxury, with two beautiful women (his assistant Yelena and his bodyguard Channon), wooed to interview the competing criminals in the race to become the new President. Drawn into the race, as the most critical commentator around, Spider realises that the people he supposedly speaks for have no interest in the coming election, perhaps understanding more clearly than he does what a charade it actually is. The trouble with the New Scum, however, is that as a reader you perceive exactly what the masses do: that Spider has got himself involved in a story, the story of the Presidency, which is, in fact, not very interesting. Notwithstanding Spider's constant, and constantly amusing, aggravation with the world, the comic needs more than the fire in his belly to heat up this particular instalment--and never quite manages to do it. The details of the story never really cohere, the suspense is minimal, the action often dull. This is not a bad Transmetropolitan chapter, but it is not a great one. --Mark Thwaite

Customer Reviews

I hate it here...
'My job is to keep the majority of the people in this country alive: if fifty-one per cent eat a meal tomorrow and forty-nine per cent don't, I've done my job'

The political plot thickens as the election approaches. Spider confronts both sides, winning himself death threats from whoever gains the presidency.

Ellis's writing is as smooth as ever, with beautiful sound-bites dripping off ever tongue but still ensuring that the substance is much more solid than the style.

Fantastic - if you haven't been hooked by now you'll be grabbed by this stage. If you're hooked already this is likely to be the point where you bulk-order the rest of the series.

Life sucks. Wear a hat.
In this collection of the transmetropolitan series, you can finally begin to understand the true inner working of politics, viewed through the ice-cold eyes of Spider Jerusalem. Warren Ellis has yet again crafted another piece of humour, so black ... it's black. It is work like this, that made me take another shot at reading comics, and I haven't looked back .

Insanity, Pure Insanity
Ellis and Robinson continue to amaze me with Transmetropolitan, this book continues the presidential election campaign story arc from 'Year of the Bastard' and what twisted,... backstabbing campaign it is. With the help of his 2 assistants Spider Jersualem continues his own campaign to bring the truth to the people on the streets.

Ellis' writing is by turns poignant, thilling, inspiring and provocative, while Robinson's artwork brings a depth of reality to the characters and a wealth of detail and jokes to the backgrounds of the city.

If you already read any of the previous books then you won't even be reading this you'll already have ordered it on spec, if you havn't then start reading them NOW!