Transmetropolitan Vol. 4: The New Scum
ISBN:
9781848563063 (184856306X)
Edition language: English
Category:
Humor,
Science Fiction,
Politics,
Dystopia,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Comix,
Comic Book,
Cyberpunk
Series: Transmetropolitan (#4)
Oh man things are getting a little dark here. There's a lot of rage and sadness in this volume... but also some moments of incredible humanity, humor, and even dare-I-say loveliness. Things are starting to get interesting, sportsfans - Spider's on his heels now and I think it's going to be quite t...
Spider Jerusalem is so well-fited for graphic novels... And I just love reading about him, no matter what he's doing in the story, it's always somehow entertaining.
There is some solid political satire here with a smiling psychopath running for president against a corrupt old Nixonian type, but by volume 4 of Transmetropolitan the tone of the book was starting to get to me. The incessant threats to shot people with a bowl disruptor, the drug abuse, the filthin...