I tried to put Spider's 8000-word column of nothing but "Fuck" here, but it turns out posts are capped at 20,000 characters. Anyway, Transmetropolitan and probably Warren Ellis in general thread, because as far as I can tell we didn't have one.
He's a bit like John Constantine in a lot of ways, he's kind of a terrible person and he fucks up epically and the main thing is he never stops trying to make things better for people because even though he hates them he doesn't think they deserve to be getting shit on like they are. And that sort of character is just SUCH jam to me.
I splurge read every issue and infected my spouse along the way. And I can already tel I'm going to be affected by this permanently. Holy shit. That was phenomenal.
-sidles in- yessss transmetropolitan :3 My poor ace self does cringe a bit at some of the more explicit things, and Spider hating dogs saddens me greatly, but still A++++ comic (also hey does Heller remind y'all of Trump in that rally of his that Spider attends, or is it just me? o_O;;;)
The entire thing has been a strange kind of "did that literally just happen bc that's a thing happening rn or like, next 6 months at best from now" flavor.
I've re-read it every US presidential election year, and it has been applicable EVERY TIME. There was magic synergy between Ellis's writing and Robertson's art.
Look. My job isn't to make everything beautiful. My job isn't to make living life a good time. My job is to keep the majority of people in this county alive. That's it. If fifty-one percent eat a meal tomorrow and forty-nine percent don't, I've done my job. That is the absolute fucking limit of what can be done. Anyone who says otherwise is a con-artist. My job is just to keep things the way they are. Everyone stays the same. I do the job. I keep the money coming. I provide the television and a few spare dollars and space for a fuck or two. You might not like that. You might not think that's the way a president should behave. But, you know . . . That's fucking tough. The Beast speaks.
