Monthly (Comic) Book Club - February - Transmetropolitan19059
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| Issue 11 is pretty straightforward, I think. We get a brief look at Spider back in his more “normal” days when he covered a war over the French language. Royce has a parade of funny faces as he stress smokes over the situation and Ellis shows he’s not above a poop joke. I do wish that the article that put a target on Spider’s head was one we had actually seen in a previous issue, though. |
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| Issue 12 wraps things up in an expectedly non-conventional way with Spider tossing away his wife’s head and making peace with the would-be assassins, one of which is a fan of his. My takeaway from the Stomp story wasn’t so much an anti-authority theme but more a reflection of how The City will always beat you down. We’ve seen it with the Revivals, with Channon, and now with officer Stomp. The City, for all its futuristic marvels, is not a healthy place for an intelligent being to be. The story did leave a few things dangling, like will we ever see Channon again? And definitely the situation with Spider and his former assistant. I agree that what he did with her puts things in a new light. I do feel, however, that the person he was at that time is different than the person he is now. And I think that what we saw with Channon showed that he has some capacity for sympathy. I think the five year gap in the mountains marks a hard divide between “the past” and “the now.” This latest arc clearly shows that Spider will have to reckon with things that he did in the past. The assistant is certainly a rather large thread left dangling and it would be strange not to address it in the future. Although, the book does does seem to move very quickly from one idea to the next. If they don’t address his assistant directly, I think that modern Spider will have to deal with that same recklessness to get a story that got her in trouble. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by dielinfinite Man, probably. If you've read one edgy UK comics writer, you've read them all  |
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Quote:Originally Posted by dielinfinite It was, but there were hints earlier. In issue 7 when Spider is talking about the folks leaving their human bodies, he mentions how some people started putting themselves into animal bodies, and the horse pulling their carriage says something. It's not clear if Stomp and the other officers are/were people or if they're actually talking dogs, but there was the tiniest bit of stage-setting. Although now that I've typed it, it's an interesting question. Would Spider have neutered Stomp if Stomp were a person? I'm going to say yes. |
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| @xkonk Ahh, right! I’d forgotten about the talking horse and if the Transient movement could change their dna to alien then why couldn’t someone change into a dog? Still, I think it’s an absurdly funny image to have a bunch of police dogs shooting the shit in a back alley somewhere. @StanwinnLoco Welcome to the forum! We do threads like this each month. March we’re doing the original Marvel Secret Wars if you’d like to join in or just follow along |
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| @dielinfinite definitely absurd. The violence with his break-in was also absurd, but I think the early issue where he's dropping grenades on his way to ask for a job was more funny absurd and the break-in was over-the-top absurd. Lots of absurdity in general. | ||
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