Illustrated by Darick Robertson.
"If you loved me, you'd all kill yourselves today."One-time journalist Spider Jerusalem has it made. A house in the mountains. Artificially intelligent smartguns. Ebola bombs. Proximity mines. Peace and quiet, guaranteed.
Then his publisher has to call and ruin everything. Out of cash, out of ideas, and with unfulfilled book contracts hanging around his neck, Jerusalem must now return to his natural - and hated - habitat: The City.
The noise. The filth. The energy. The stories. The City throbs and convulses with life, changing and mutating every second of every day. Technology surpassed science fiction decades ago, and humanity is killing itself trying to catch up. For anyone who can maintain his sanity, it's a writer's paradise.
For Jerusalem, it's also the inferno.
"Transmetropolitan" has been the dark lord of the graphic novel genre. The dale of disillusioned journalist Spider Jerusalem returning to the City has offered page-turning brain-reward to hundreds of thousands of enthralled readers."
Wired
"Brilliant future-shock commentary."
Spin
"Deliciously perverse."
Publishers Weekly
"Angry political sci-fi and it's funny as hell."
Playboy
"Ground-breaking... (the) most engrossing comic I've read since "Watchmen"."
Cory Doctorow