"Karen Berger is making a serious effort to broaden the scope of the
Vertigo
line. Since many of the titles eventually make it into Trade Paperbacks, this
could be of major importance in expanding the audience of
comics....DC's
Helix line hasn't had a huge hit yet, but it's good to see a publisher
actively trying to promote a line of science fiction comics, and they are
publishing a couple of titles that are worth reading....Warren Ellis
and
Darick Robertson's Transmetropolitan comes to mind."
-Steve Gerber in "Onomatopoeia"
TRANSMETROPOLITAN
created by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
About Transmetro | About the
authors
| You may have found this page through 2 different ways: 1. you were
searching
the Space Beaver page and you stumbled upon a link to this and 2.
you were specifically looking for a web page dealing with
Transmetropolitan
and now you're wondering what the hell a Space
Beaver
is. Just concentrate on the information on hand, okay? Okay...
Speaking of webpages, check out the official Transmetropolitan
page, run by a Mr. D. Robertson. While you're at it, there's a fantastic
page called The Hole, featuring
an interview with transmet's creators! And there's another Transmetro page
out there called The Transmet
Feed. It's kid tested, mother approved. Check it out! Then there's
the Transmetro
Timeline is, wow, detailed. Check it out.
Transmetropolitan: what is it?
Transmetropolitan is a comic book published by Helix comics,
the science fiction part of the DC Comics empire. It deals with a journalist
named Spider Jerusalem, a raving lunatic (sometimes) and voice of reason
in a wacky futuristic urban world. I'm sure you've seen many visions of
possible chaotic "world gone slightly mad" technologically insane futures
but rarely to the heroes of these worlds ever lay down the smack upon them.
And that's pretty much what Spider does. Spider was a columnist many moons
ago who wrote books that made him a star and beloved/hated public icon
(well, not to all the public, I'm sure some were indifferent to him, they
probably thought his column took space away from precious "Hi & Lois"
strips). He signed a book deal and fled to the mountains to write. However,
he discovered that he couldn't write a damn thing; the only way he could
write was if he was in the city, which he hated and still seems to hate.
After paying five bucks (and a dead rat) in tolls to get back in he was
soon on his way to assaulting receptionists, housing two-headed cats, and
walking his way through a nudie bar and into the heart of a riot.
And all on his first day's work.
Tranmetropolitan follows Spider as he harrases people (in many
different
ways) until they are driven insane, or fill their pants up, and then writes
articles about them. The comic is available in most comic book stores and
is "suggested for mature readers" (strong language, graphic pictures for
the weak of heart; hey, at least it's not one of those "bad girl" books
with the "double wet slimey nude twin covers.").
So who writes this comic?
A guy named Warren Ellis, who has written stuff like DV8 and
Stormwatch for Image Comics. I think he's writing Wolverine now but I could
be very wrong.
And who supplies the art?
That would be Darick W. Robertson, renouned across the world
for many Spider-man specials, a 25 issue run at the New Warriors, several
Malibu projects including Nightman, Solution, and Ripfire, and several
other specials including Justice League: Midsummer Nightmare and Solar:
Man Of The Atom. But let's face it, we all know him best for his amazing
work on Space Beaver, one of the best and few
books dealing with beavers fighting pigs in space.
Darick and W. Ellis have worked together in the past, on Acclaim's
Solar: Man Of The Atom one shot special. Darick is from San Francisco (the
second greatest city in the world) and currently lives in New York. Doing
what, I don't know. I think working on comic books. W. Ellis is from
Southend,
England, and has his very own
webpage!