Transmetropolitan

Sorry for the long hiatus but celebrations take time. Work also takes time. Life sucks lololol. Whatever.

Anyway, one of the things keeping me alive these days is the brilliant Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis. I actually got his name completely confused with Garth Ennis, the master-god who created Preacher, probably my favourite comic of all time, and was talking about the themes in "his" work with regards to Transmetropolitan. Yes, its all a bit WTF but they are very similar.

Preacher was the story of a man who managed to bring God to trial for causing the world to suffer. Transmetropolitan is the story of a Gonzo journalist, Hunter Thompson's kin, no doubt, in the future who works to uncover conspiracies, fuck shit up, beat people and expose Truth. Both are, like comics should be, total wish fulfillment. While Preacher lets a man attack God on equal footing, making it seem that random injustice can be accounted for and revenged, Transmetropolitan lets a man attack the Government on an equal footing, also making it seem that random injustice can be accounted for and revenged. It makes it seem like journalism actually means something.

I know I'd like to believe that.

It also really helps that Spider Jerusalem, the protagonist, is so fucking bad-ass. He seemingly beats up everyone that he doesn't like and never, ever loses. Despite being all drugged up all the time and smoking in every panel, he manages to evade government assassins, kick the president in the crotch, throw cops through windows and STILL the public listens to him. It's a bad-assery that's beyond belief, like Beowulf (in the movie), and it's very, very, action-movie cool.

Anyway, I'm posting up the first volume of Transmetropolitan, the files are in cbr format after you unrar them so you'll need something like CDisplay to read it. I personally use some wierd Chinese thing called 'Comics Viewer' but I takes forever to google, but it's out there and its really awesomely good so cheers if you can find it.

Edit: Found it here. Chinese viewer FTW!


Transmetropolitan Volume 1 (drop.io)