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Who knew a comic series from the late 90s could be so prescient of the current times? Heavy and reflective but also vulgar and at times hilarious. I enjoyed reading this series.
This series is so amazing!!.
this article is very fantastic
This is a mini-collection with one short story and a lot of 'columns.' It's got some spoilers in it, so I wouldn't really consider it a Volume 0, but it stands on its own relatively well. The art is the core of it, with a whole bevy of artists doing full page/spreads for each column. Some of it is gorgeous, some of it is just weird. The columns are perfect Spider Jerusalem, capturing his hope, despair, humanity, and profanity. It makes for a good follow-up to the series, but I wouldn't recommend...
Years later re-read:Probably shouldn’t have read this first because it’s just a collection of short paragraph mini stories barely connected to anything in some cases or referencing events from specific comics inOthers. Made it tough to get a sense of its necessity, but for a super fan who’s done the main issues this would probably be like DVD bonus features.
This is not a prequel: this is basically a supplemental book to the Transmet series. It is a collection of bits of articles that Spider wrote for The Word, illustrated by numerous artists. The snippets are obviously from "I Hate It Here" and it really shows Spider in a light that one would expect: hating dogs, sexual frustration, bowel disruptors... But it also shows a bit of why Spider stayed in the City in the first place. It shows his bittersweet love affair with the seedy underbelly, his add...
http://nhw.livejournal.com/1011032.html[return][return]I got this because I had picked up recommendations for Ellis' Transmetropolitan series from various sources, and this fairly slim volume was numbered #0 in the shop, so I guessed it might be important introductory or prefatory material. Well, if it is, I'm not sure I can be bothered to follow up with the rest of the series. The book starts with a short story about how much protagonist Spider Jerusalem hates Christmas and other people, and it...
http://bookwayfarer.wordpress.com/201...I feel as if I can relate to Jerusalem's apathy more, now I feel like I'm living in hell. It's comforting to have the words laid out in front of me and know someone out there was able to nail it squarely to the wall. He takes what's happening right now in America, as we live it, and puts it in this future environment. On the part which covers the societal unrest for the half-human half-martian bunch I must share what was said on the picket signs, including...
Spider Jerusalem is a difficult protagonist to like but his narcissism isn't the problem. His observations about his world are supposed to be incisive, but really, they're aren't. His brand of dark humor adds little and frequently, this graphic novel is a jumble of ramblings.The art in a few instances is quite beautiful, but most of it is not appropriate for the world that Ellis has created. It would be better to just use a single illustrator to maintain a consistent tone, though it must be said...
I was introduced to Transmetropolitan by all the hype that was around that time. Thank god, I picked up a first tpb to get introduced to the series and not this one. If it had been this one, I would've been put off and missed so much.This one has nothing except bunch of really good pin up pictures. If you want to have a complete run of Transmetropolitans, get this, othervice, don't bother.
Fucking brilliant series!
During the entire Transmetropolitan series up to this point, Spider Jerusalem's status as someone with so much power and sway was a bit questionable. He's a psychotic, unlikeable lunatic who spends most of his time pissing people off and behaving very bizarrely. He's entertaining as can be, but seriously unhinged and not really hero material. Vol. 0: Tales of Human waste finally sheds some light on what captivates the denizens of The City - dozens of excerpts of Spider's column are presented and...
This was an experimental loan from the library, but I think the experiment did the work out for me. I'll still give the next one a shot, though.
I loved this comic. This is the first time I have read a Transmetroplitan comic and I can't wait to get my hands on the rest. The protagonist, Spider, is a lovable jerk who really does seem to care about the people of his city. His character is interesting and his comments are both funny and biting. Someone time art didn't quite line up with what was being said, but this was one of those comics where every artist did only one page, so that's rather easy to do and just leave in. Definitely want t...
the book is fantastic.
I'm finally putting this series to bed upon reading Filth of the City about ten years after reading all other things Transmet. Since these days the only really sure way to find FotC is in this collection (which, I think, is also going the way of the dodo) or in the most recent edition of vol 10, One More Time, which annoyingly sandwiches both FotC and its precursor, I Hate It Here in as a postscript to the entire series, I felt an OCD-type need to explain to all the n00bs out there a little bit
It is beautiful.
In all honesty the majority of this was in the end of the copy of Transmetropolitan # 10. So I re-read it. Loved the stories. It would be cool to read this as you read the whole series as Spider was supposedly writing it.
For completists only...
This amazing one of the best that I have read
