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Binding: PaperbackEAN: 9781840232585 Edition: New Ed ISBN: 1840232587 Label: Titan Books Ltd Manufacturer: Titan Books Ltd Number Of Pages: 72 Publication Date: November 24, 2000 Publisher: Titan Books Ltd Studio: Titan Books Ltd Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Warren Ellis (whose recent work includes the excellent The Authority) is a fine comics writer. Spider Jerusalem, his tortured journalist protagonist, is a wonderful creation. Back on the Street is the first in the Transmetropolitan series and essential as an introduction to Spider and his world. Preacher's Garth Ennis introduces the book, rightly praising "the finest, blackest humour, and the purest hate, and a sense of justice hissed through gritted teeth". If the message is sometimes a little heavily, a little clumsily overbearing, this does not detract too much from a great story. Ellis has produced a fine comic series in Transmetropolitan. This is a future classic. The scenario goes something like this. Spider Jerusalem left the City ages ago and grew an awful lot of hair up on a mountain. The City was just too corrupt, too sinful, too unbearable a place for a journalist with a heightened, if awry, sense of what's right, what's wrong. Then his editor calls. Spider still owes him two books. A contract from way back when. And if he doesn't come up with the goods there will be consequences. Trouble is, Spider can only write when he's in the City, hasn't written a thing since he left. He doesn't want to go back but he has to write, has to go back. So he returns to the trouble and the turmoil, back to the mess that feeds him as a writer and gets himself a story. A punk he used to know, Fred Christ, is causing trouble. Fred is the leader of the Transients (humans knowingly infused with alien genes) and he wants them to have their own land and is ready to lead a rebellion to achieve that end. The authorities, obviously, see things differently. And Spider sees through both group's hypocrisies... --Mark Thwaite Average Rating:
 Rating:  - fantasticly emotive i must admit when this graphic novel first arrived throgh the small hole in my door; i was somewhat disserpointed. After reading all the reviews on amazon i was really excited about it coming, but when i saw it - paper thin and small my opinion totally changed. But ever the optomist i read it, and found my self in histerics at the humour, totally intriged by the story line, 100% amazed about the attention to detail in the artwork, how much care must have gone into the script. And then it hit me - small and thin it may be, but you could happily sit for hours admiring the pure joy that the creators much have put into it! So why would i give it five stars? The main character (Spider J) has been superbly developed! A totally care free, however highly oppionated, drug addict, heavy smoker and drinker, totally sinikle about everything -- and a reporter! thats gold! The artwork - it is incredible! The colours, the shadows, grafitti, people, cars, trees - so realistic and yet... comic - its strange. The plot - as with all this series, each edition concentrates on one or two specific issues: politics mainly; but then Ellis uses his is unique writing style to incorperate seriousness, humour, violance.... into the main idea - superb. I seriously advise everyone to buy this! words cannot describe how.... amazing it is! Rating: - It begins..."The money had long gone, and most of the goods and weaponry it bought had long since been bartered away for drugs, food and cable TV... I decided to be depressed for a while" One of very few truly indispensible graphic novel series starts here. Spider Jerusalem - an amalgam of Hunter S Thompson and John Pilger in a Philip K Dick universe - is forced to give up his self-imposed hermitry to keep the wolves from the door. Ellis is a magnificent writer (although you'd probably steer clear if you met him in a bar) with an almost grudging social conscience. If you told him he was a caring liberal he might well beat you up - or at least laugh at you - but read these books and I defy you to say he isn't commenting about life today... Wonderful. Even non-graphic novelistas should read this. Rating:  - Dire SatireI have to admit having high hopes for this book, especially after reading the rave reviews that it has recieved from both critics and the public, but upon reading the first three volumes I felt nothing but shame. How this writer can get away with so blatantly plaigarising the work of Hunter S Thompson I do not know. I do know that Thompson satirised the title on the cover of his book 'Better than Sex' but until now I had no idea of the extent to which Warren Ellis had gone. If you want your political satire to be funny, thought provoking and extreme then buy a title by the original gonzo journalist and leave Transmetropolitan with the other children's books, on the shelf. Rating: - He's here to stayYou like political satire? Buy this. Like sci-fi? Buy this. Like black humour? Buy this. Like comics in any way? BUY THIS. Transmetropolitan is a brilliant example of comic work, and at equal times hilarious, thought-provoking and rage-inducing. As our hero, embittered junkie ultra-violent journalist Spider Jerusalem, returns to the futurities City and covers the Transient movement (humans turning themselves into aliens who want more civil liberties), you will see corruption from both the authorities and the movement leaders, and you will see Spider dealing with it... by reporting the truth. And the truth, as he puts it, "can blow the knee-cap off the world". Now freaking buy it. Rating: - OutstandingBack on the Street is a great introduction into the world of Transmetropolitan. A place that mirrors our own world almost too close for comfort. Warren Ellis' story telling, sharp wit and cynicism, coupled with Darrick Robertson's art (which shows the enormity of Transmetropolitan in glorious detail), make it a captivating setting for the voice of Spider Jerusalem, the best character I have seen in comics in a long while. After I started reading this book I couldn't put it down (yes it's that good!) and it also made me crave for the subsiqent installments to the Transmetropolitan world more than any comic has before. I can't recommend this highly enough, it's a must for fans of Preacher and 100 Bullets alike.  Try searching the Internet for "Transmetropolitan : Back on the Street" or Ebay for "Transmetropolitan : Back on the Street". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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