FREE TRANSMETROPOLITAN: BACK ON THE STREET VOL 1 PDF Darick Robertson,Warren Ellis | 144 pages | 18 Nov 2011 | DC Comics | 9781401220846 | English | New York, NY, United States Transmetropolitan - Wikipedia After years of self-imposed exile from a civilizati on rife with degradati on and indecency, cynical journalist Spider Jerusalem is forced to return to a job that he hates and a city that he loa the Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street Vol 1. Working as an investigative reporter for the newspaper The Word, Spider attacks the injustices of his surreal 23rd Century surroundings. Combining black humor, life-threatening situati on s, and moral ambiguity, this book is the first look into the mind of an outlaw journalist and the world he seeks to destroy. Short-link Link Embed. Share from cover. Share from page:. More magazines by this user. Close Flag as Inappropriate. You Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street Vol 1 already flagged this document. Thank you, for helping us keep this platform clean. The editors will have a look at it as soon as possible. Delete template? Cancel Delete. Cancel Overwrite Save. Don't wait! Try Yumpu. Start using Yumpu now! Resources Blog Product changes Videos Magazines. Integrations Wordpress Zapier Dropbox. Cooperation partner: bote. Terms of service. Privacy policy. Cookie policy. Change language. Main languages. Transmetropolitan Vol. 1: Back on the Street - Warren Ellis - Google книги Transmetropolitan is a cyberpunk transhumanist comic book series written by Warren Ellis and co-created and designed by Darick Robertson ; it was published by the American company DC Comics in — Transmetropolitan chronicles the battles of Spider Jerusaleminfamous renegade gonzo journalist of the future. Spider Jerusalem dedicates himself to fighting the corruption and abuse of power of two successive United States presidents. He and his "filthy assistants" strive to keep their world from turning more dystopian than it already is while dealing with the struggles of fame and power, brought about due to the popularity of Spider via his articles. The monthly series began in July and concluded in September Jerusalem returns to work for his old partner and editor Mitchell Roycewho now edits The Wordthe City's largest newspaper. His first story is about an attempted secession by the Transient movement, people who use genetic body modification based on alien DNA to become a completely different species, and are forced to live in the Angels 8 slum district. The leader of the movement, Fred Christ, is paid to incite a riot and provoke the police, who use it as an excuse to clear out Angels 8. However, Jerusalem publishes a story revealing the truth and brutal methods used by the police. Soon, Royce publishes it live all over the city, and the public outcry forces the police to withdraw. Jerusalem is brutally beaten by police on his way home, but defiantly says that he's here to stay. The first year of the series consists of a set of one- off stories exploring the City, Jerusalem's background, and his often tense relationship with his sidekicks, Yelena Rossini and Channon Yarrow referred to as his 'filthy assistants'who as the series progresses become full-time partners in his journalistic battles. The main storyline of the series, the election and corrupt presidency of Gary Callahan or "The Smiler"begins in the series' second year and lasts for Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street Vol 1 rest of its run. Spider initially considers Callahan the lesser evil compared to the incumbent president "The Beast"but his investigation into Callahan's past and ties with a right-wing hate group lead to Callahan having his own campaign manager, Vita Severn, a friend of Jerusalem's, murdered. In a one-on-one meeting, Spider realizes that Callahan is not merely corrupt, but a complete lunatic who wants to be President solely to hurt people with his new power. To Jerusalem's horror and disgust, the people vote Callahan into office by a wide margin. Once elected, Callahan begins to use his presidential power to torment Jerusalem, the source of his trouble during the campaign. Jerusalem narrowly escapes a police massacre of people protesting how a recent hate crime was investigated. The police refused to release video of the incident because it reveals several police officers watching the crime occur without interfering. Jerusalem writes a story revealing the truth about the crime and subsequent engineered massacre, but Callahan spikes it via "D-Notices", government censorship of stories that could "embarrass" the country Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street Vol 1 the Callahan administration. After being informed of this, Jerusalem leaks the story via a straight-text news feedsite called "The Hole" and follows it up with an article exposing Callahan's corrupt circle of advisers, one of whom is a pedophile. When Royce runs the story, Callahan forces the paper's board of directors to fire Jerusalem, who makes an agreement to publish his future stories with "The Hole". However, Callahan arranges for the City to be left defenseless from a hurricane-like "near-near-near ruinstorm" an actual ruinstorm can skin anyone caught in it that ravages the City and kills thousands, using the chaos to destroy the evidence Jerusalem has gathered against him, and places the city under martial law after the storm ends. Royce reveals that he had archived most of Jerusalem's evidence and delivers it to him on disk, but during the storm Jerusalem collapses and is diagnosed with an incurable degenerative neurological illness with similar symptoms to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseaseTransmetropolitan: Back on the Street Vol 1 by constant exposure to the now-defunct informational substance known as Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street Vol 1. In the final issue's epilogue, Jerusalem returns to his mountain home. Royce comes to visit, and the assistants show him around the house while explaining that Jerusalem's disease is progressing. It is revealed that Channon has a book deal, and Yelena is taking a journalistic role similar to Jerusalem's; Channon and Royce note that Yelena is his spiritual successor, displaying his trademark rage and passion as well as his talent. In the garden, Jerusalem tells Royce that the disease is so advanced that he cannot light his own cigarettes, and he forgets one day out of seven. However, when Royce leaves, Jerusalem pulls out a package of cigarettes and what appears to be a handgun. He appears to be placing the barrel under his chin, until it is revealed in the next panel that it is a lighter. The series was originally published under DC Comics 's then-new science fiction Helix imprint. When the Helix line was discontinued, Transmetropolitan was the only series of the Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street Vol 1 that had not Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street Vol 1 canceled, and was switched to the Vertigo imprint starting with issue The entire set of trade paperbacks are now published under the Vertigo label. In JuneVertigo began releasing Transmetropolitan in the premium hardcover Absolute Edition format. The first volume included issues 1— Absolute Transmetropolitan, Vol. Co-creators Ellis and Robertson were approached about making a Transmetropolitan film adaptationwith Patrick Stewart 's production company Flying Freehold Productions offering to option the rights in February Later, the burgeoning Internet boom led to an offer to create an online animated film series, with Stewart providing the voice of Spider Jerusalem, but the project never fully developed. Ellis and Robertson have been rumored to have indicated that they would like to see Tim Roth play Jerusalem; however, during a panel at London's Kapow! Some items of Transmetropolitan merchandise have been made, Robertson himself having Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street Vol 1 one T-shirt: a black shirt with a three-eyed smiley face on the front and the text "I Hate It Here" in yellow on the back. DC Direct has produced five products. One is a black T-shirt with an image of Spider Jerusalem from the comic with the text "Spider Jerusalem. But not as cheap as your girlfriend". Early in the series they produced an action figure of Jerusalem wearing nothing but his trademark boxer shorts so as to show off his tattoos, and a variant that is giving the finger and holding a bowel disruptor. The third is a statuette of Jerusalem, in the same state of near-nudity, sitting on the toilet growling into his cell phone and arguing with his editor Mitchell Royce, who is visible on his small laptop computer Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street Vol 1 the base. The fourth is a wristwatch with the three-eyed Transient smiley as the watch's face; and the fifth is a replica of Spider's trademark glasses. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the comic book series. For the War from a Harlot's Mouth album, see Transmetropolitan album. For the Pogues song, see Red Roses for Me. 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