Brian Keene recommended Transmetropolitan to me personally during a visit to my FLCS, so I decided to have a look. Having never read any before - and my comics guy wasn’t too familiar with it either - I ordered Volume 0 first thinking it would be a prequel-type thing. Well, it’s not, but that’s OK. It’s a magnificent collection and it has sold me on the series (hurry up with Vol 1 already!).

Spider Jerusalem is a great character, part Hunter S. Thompson, part the unnamed narrator from Notes from the Underground, part Warren Ellis, all entertaining and bitterly funny. For this collection pretty much anybody who’s anybody in comics art got a crack at drawing a page or two, with stunning results. The range of interpretation is amazing, yet still recognizably Spider. If you have a favorite artist, he/she is probably in here somewhere, with some sneaky reference to his own stuff buried in a page.

Fantastic book!