March Books 18) Transmetropolitan: Tales of Human Waste

[nwhyte]

18) Transmetropolitan: Tales of Human Waste, by Warren Ellis

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

Comments

[mizkit]

It's not an actual part of the series, although Spider does more or less hate everyone and is terribly unpleasant. But he's also passionate and wicked and very alive, and I love him. Give the first real GN a shot, and if you don't like it, *then* don't go on. :)

[andrewducker]

Agreed.

[hano]

#0 is sort of an afterforward. As such it doesn't make much sense without reading reading the rest of the series first, it's pretty much the worst place to start. Volume 1:Back on the Street is the place to begin.

[ghostwes]

I've read #1 and #2 (though not #0, which I didn't know existed) and have never really felt compelled to carry on with it. Not really sure what everyone sees in Transmetropolitan, to be honest.

[martin_wisse]

You'll like Transmetropolitan if you like the idea of a science fiction version of Hunter S. Thompson, as written by a cyncial Englishman. I liked it, but didn't love it.

[purplepooka]

What they said, as in #1 is where to start. #0 is pretty much for those who already understand that Spider hates the world for love of it (though he'd turn a bowel-distruptor on anyone who said so). Transmet is a carnival of grotesques, but it's ultimately a story about integrity.