Product Description

The Fix is in! Famed journalist and agent provocateur Spider Jerusalem is back, up to his neck in sleaze, corruption and perversion. It can only mean one thing...politics! Embittered and only occasionally crusading, Spider Jerusalem is wallowing in a mire of pills and bitterness. The sheer vileness and depravity of his fellow human beings (and assorted non-humans), has rendered Spider's hardly sunny disposition at an all-time low wattage. Certainly, he's not bothering to cover the biggest story of the year: the presidential election, and that oversight may just spell the end of his career.. not to mention his life! Join us for another blisteringly funny slice of sci-fi satire.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #360738 in Books
• Published on: 2001-04-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

About the Author
Warren Ellis is the acclaimed writer of Transmetropolitan, The Authority and Planetary. His work has included memorable runs on Hellblazer and Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight, and he's currently helping to revamp the X-Men for Marvel.

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