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What do you like about transmetropolitan?

>>815
everything except the sexism
topic-wise it's a bit like Max Headroom because the protagonist works in the news business and tries to change some stuff about the world… i found it pretty entertaining overall so that's why i made the post

What's the plot? And through what medium do you access it? Thinking of reading it.

It's Hunter S. Thompson's biography and body of popular works suitably transported and retold in an edgier Futurama metropolis.

There's an underlying plot, but it's a slow burn with plenty of world-building elaboration and digressions. Basically, it's a story of a professional journalist who's been out of the loop for a bit and needs to get back into the swing of things. The swing of things here being all future shock and weird.

It's relatively easy to follow, easily digested enough, but it holds some kind of hearty value in my opinion. It's twisted, but human nonetheless

Transmetropolitan is one of my favourite comic series, but I had to force myself at the beginning.

It seemed so juvenile, but I've got a serious soft spot for fake product placement in sci-fi, so I adored every shot on the streets just to oggle the billboards.

Once I got to know the characters and the tone I grew to love it.
I like Thompson's work in a "can't look away from the car crash" sort of way.
But I think the outlandishness of his anecdotes is aided by it all being told by him in the past tense. We're given information in the way he wants.
In TransMet, learning about events in real-time (that is, learning info at the same time the characters do) feels a lot less natural.
Spider's articles are probably as good as the writing gets, fictional gonzo journalism is a good format.

So good characters, well written, very nice art. 10/10 sci-fi world.

I love Transmet with all my heart and soul.
I remember finding it funny how the trans-species fuarrrkers reminded me of tumblr, of the general tendency of people anymore to make some special identity for themselves and in doing so often reduce themselves to victimhood simply for the sake of it. I remember finding the level of apathy.. Pretty realistic, actually. And the amount of corruption, and the everything. It was great.

It's somewhat depressing though, since I don't think we're going to HAVE a Spider.

This is my first time actually posting on lainchan, only my second time logging on, but any community that likes Transmet is awwright.

PS: Hillary's the Smiler, Trump's the Beast.