Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life in Warren Ellis: Q&A Experiment

Aug 29, 2007 Adam rated it really liked it

Shelves: re-read, comics

Apparently I'm re-reading this series. Hadn't planned it, it's just happening.

A lot of people first noticed Warren Ellis's writing with this series, and with good reason. It is all-out, thought-driven sci-fi with a nasty edge and a sometimes unlikeable main character. But for all of that, it still has a lot of heart.

Ellis's vision of the future can be fairly dim, but I hesitate to call this dystopia like some reviewers. It's a future where nanotechnology has made anything possible and humans h ...more

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Jan 23, 2010 Dan rated it it was amazing

For those who don't know this series it's basically Hunter S Thompson in the future. Spider Jerusalem is a ranting hack who will stop at nothing to get a story and bring down those he hates - which is everybody. Writer Warren Ellis is a literary god in my book...albeit a god with a sick mind. ...more

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Jul 11, 2008 William Owen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: essential

I can't imagine what my life would have been like if I'd read Transmetropolitan as it came out during those youthful and tender years, but it doesn't matter and no one gives a shit.

What matters is that I bought and read volume 1 months ago, liked it after a fashion but didn't liquify to it, and went on my im-merrily impoverished way.

Then I had the good fortune to have a friend worthwhile enough to gift me a bunch of it, and damn me to hell if it weren't the right damn place and the right damn ti ...more

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