A decade ago, on the recommendations of a friend, I gave Transmetropolitan a go, didn't like it and left it for dead. Then about a year ago, I gave it another go, and while it didn't immediately blow my mind, it was different and interesting enough that I kept going, slowly making my way through the 11 TPBs that form the entire series. In a way, I'm glad I read them now, because so much of the shit the world is swirling into right now is already in there that what I would have deemed "too much" now seems prescient. In a nutshell, Spider Jerusalem is a guerilla journalist, the only one it seems who doesn't fear the wrath of the powerful in this dystopian American future. His only obsession is the truth, and in order to find it and reveal it he will stop at nothing. Transmetropolitan is still edgy, even 15 years after it closed, it's provocative and gross at times, but quite powerful at others. Really worth taking the time to go through it all.
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