Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan

[Panasonic]

Any suggestions for future reading?

I have read the entire Transmetropolitan series, and I LOVE IT.

Is there any more graphic novels I should be on the lookout for? I'll be in New York tomorrow.

[McCamy Taylor]

1. You mean by Warren Ellis? He is one of my favorites, too.

If you want something "just like Transmetropolitan" try "Doktor Sleepless." (But I think it's on hiatus.)

My next favorite Ellis series is "The Planetary". However, I have never read anything by him that was not good.

[theKed]

5. Planetary is *really* goddamned good.

It's a fantastic read, pure pop-culture-reconstructionism.

[Codeine]

2. Garth Ennis' "The Boys".

It's violent, vulgar, crass, hysterically funny, unbelievably crude, and has the most cynical take on superheroes imaginable.

http://comicbooks.about.com/od/comicbookreviews/fr/boys13.htm

[McCamy Taylor]

3. I like "The Boys." However, Ennis is not as good a writer as Ellis.

Ennis takes his characters out of character whenever he feels like it in order to make a story head in a certain direction. Both "The Boys" and "Preacher" suffered from this.

When Ellis creates a character, the character stays true. Spider Jerusalem is always Spider Jerusalem. Also, Ellis has a better feel for politics and what makes the world tick.

[Codeine]

4. Not many in the industry are as good as Ellis.

He's a force of nature, that one.

[FSogol]

6. Liked "Transmetropolitian"? Try "Punk Rock Jesus."

From Boing Boing's review:

"Sean Murphy's Punk Rock Jesus is a rockin' comic about the Second Coming. It opens with a psychotically ruthless show-runner arranging to clone Jesus from DNA salvaged from the Shroud of Turin, implanting a foetus in the womb of a teenaged virgin, all for a reality TV show that starts with auditions for the part of Christ's mother. Gwen, the desperate teen who gets the part, is only one of the many memorable characters who make up the resulting set piece: there's Dr Sarah Epstein, a brilliant geneticist who's been promised funding for a carbon-fixing superalgae if she helps create the clonal Christ; there's Thomas McKael, an IRA soldier turned supergrass turned super-security director, and several others who come to prominence as the story unfolds (including Cola, a genetically engineered tame polar bear). "

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1401237681/downandoutint-20

PS. Loved the Jamie Hernandez cover for Transmetropolitian #32.



You have read all of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez's work, right?