(My dad let me read these comics in elementary school…)
It’s very important to note that Spider still urges people to vote anyway. You can be angry at the deep, deep inadequacies in the current political structures, and you can work to rebuild those structures, but while that work happens you still have to engage in harm reduction. Sometimes, harm reduction means voting for The Beast. It’s fucked, but it’s what you gotta do.
Every time I go back to re-read Transmetropolitan I get a little more sad that we have not fixed any of the issues it highlighted back in 1997.
and not only that, but the finale:
Where the smiler’s true nature is laid bare for all to see publicly has been tested and simply does not work in practice.
It was a wonderful comic … fucking shame that Ellis is a piece of shit
On reflection, a lot of that does show up in the relationships Spider has with his assistants across the series.
That really sucks. Upsetting that he’s such a garbage person.
I didn’t know that about him. That fucking sucks
It does
TIL. Guess I’ll never finish my Transmet collection.
Nobody completely misses the mark quite like Warren Ellis. Absolute fucking trash human being.
