'I Hate It Here.'
'Hi. I’m Spider Jerusalem. I smoke. I take drugs. I drink. I wash every six weeks. I masturbate constantly and fling my steaming poison semen down from my window into your hair and food. I’m a rich and respected columnist for a major metropolitan newspaper. I live with two beautiful women in the city’s most expensive and select community. Being a bastard works.'

After a solid year of reading as many classics as I could (and now I firmly believe that every sixteen year old girl should have Pride and Prejudice thrust upon her, so that she can fall in love with Darcy and all things regency, as I did) I got a bit bored and whilst Wikiing came a certain comic series.

There is no way that a misanthropic gonzo journalist (based on Hunter S. Thompson himself) who lives in a dystopian future full of transhumans and kitchen appliances on drugs can ever be a bad thing, right?

Right.

Transmetropolitan.

It's a bloody awesome series: the politics aren't the crux of the plot but are definitely enthralling; the characters genuinly develop and the pace is almost too fast to hold onto, but it just makes the whole thing that much better.

I read through the whole series in two days and cried at the end. Laughed my head off, but cried like a baby. It's made me a happier person. I'm angry at everyone, all of the time, but it's taught me that the truth is the best thing there is.

Simply put: this comic book series made me stop lying. Even those weeny little white ones. Which is, you know, pretty cool.
(The Disillusioned Starburst, Sat 17 May 2008, 22:13, 1 reply)

Fucking excellent
Love that comic
(Slyph, Mon 19 May 2008, 2:45, closed)