Transmetropolitan: The Comic Book Syndicate

[ComicBookSyndicate]

I think Robertson is a great artist, but I prefer his later work on Wolverine and The Boys!

[FancyAlien]

Rank Transmetropolitan Issues: 1. Dirge 2. One More Time 3. The Cure 4. Back To The Streets 5. Gouge Away 6. The New Scum 7. Lonely City 8. Spider's Thrash 9. Lust For Life 10. Year Of The Bastard

[leslye42]

i just found you guys's videos and im loving them.i really like everyone in the vids you guys r very funny and the girls r so preety and knoledgeble on the comics.the o nly thing i dont like is that guy danny.it was so funny when he tryed to knock dave's art and at that same time you guys show that awesone shot of the comedian riding on the owlship during the riots.funny.

[piersdog]

i would just like to point out that transmet is so completley unlike any other comic ever published if you have not read this work of pure genius that you should imediatley go and purchase a copy the luungwadge will shock and astound you,and the story will make you think in new deviant ways.and as such i feel that the guys there rather sold the book short perhaps out of a lack of understanding warren ellis is the most gifted and more importantley unorthadox writer working in comics today

[coydog0]

Warren Ellis is an excellent writer, and one of the finest of the past 20 years. I think 'The Authority' is as important to supehero comics as 'Never the Bullocks' was to rock music. I'll definitely give the rest of the series a chance.

-Mike-EL

[StickyMrfingaz]

@coydog0 hey have you read fell by warren ellis ?0_+

[ComicBookSyndicate]

@StickyMrfingaz Yes, but only one issue. But its enough to declare it is a masterpiece!

[StickyMrfingaz]

@ComicBookSyndicate yeah I been waiting for years for more fell, it one of my faves too,I got the first and only volume.apparently the delay was due to Ellis loosing his notes from a computer crash or something like that.I am going to UK comic con this year dressed as a bunny ,monkey or a pig but I haven't decided yet and I will get me book signed and maybe ask when more fell is coming out.0_+

[StickyMrfingaz]

@ComicBookSyndicate what was the issue you had with it ? 0_+

[ComicBookSyndicate]

@StickyMrfingaz No, I mean, I read "one issue", LOL. It was #9.

[StickyMrfingaz]

@ComicBookSyndicate ohh lolz

[coydog0]

Very well said.

[meb1982]

Thank you.

[nightseifer]

It is the best comic i ever read. 2nd is watchmen, but i agree with the fella saying that the art WORK, not the art DIRECTION, is a bit stiff. but so were all comics at the time

[coydog0]

I would say that stiff artwork was a rarity at the time. Marvel artists were still using the Jack Kirby 'house style' (employed by Gil Kane, John Buscema, Sal Buscema etc.), and the Michael Golden style was being imitated by Art Adams. I think the stiffer, more reserved art of Dave Gibbons was reflective of his British background (also see: Steve Dillon).

[MyTrevorb]

@coydog0 Darick Robertson did a lot of work for Marvel before he did Transmet. He was trying to break from the confined boundaries of drawing for a franchise he didn't own. In many ways he was his own boss for Transmet and didn't want to maintain the clean cut format he was used to doing. He also had to do way more work within much shorter deadlines. Personally I think the artwork is brilliant. There is something deeper happening than what you see on the surface and that speaks volumes.

[MyTrevorb]

@nightseifer Darick Robertson did a lot of work for Marvel before he did Transmet. He was trying to break from the confined boundaries of drawing for a franchise he didn't own. In many ways he was his own boss for Transmet and didn't want to maintain the clean cut format he was used to doing. He also had to do way more work within much shorter deadlines. Personally I think the artwork is brilliant. There is something deeper happening than what you see on the surface and that speaks volumes.

[ELiTED]

hey michael, did you get any responses from chum about your show yet?

[coydog0]

No news yet, and in this case i don't think "no news=good news" applies.

But, we'll keep our fingers crossed :)

[alienanxiety]

boy, danny's hands are small.

[coydog0]

Big wrists, small hands...like Billy The Kid.

[funmen]

Oh Danny... You aren't going to win any favors with comments like that. You want people to believe that you LIKE comics ( it looked like you didn't even know Dave Gibbons name-- ouch! ).

Comment on the old n' bold colouring of the book instead.

[kinggilmour]

I do it to get a rise out of people........it's kinda like I'm playing the dude...........playing the other dude.....on the show. If it means keeping shit brewing with the viewing audince, then my comments are working......I don't really agree with what I say half the time either, but it keeps from everyone always agreeing with everything everyone one else says.......does that even make sense?

[kid1on1]

now now, I love Gibbons and Watchmen but Danny is entitled to his opinions......and I'm also defending him because he has a Reggie Bush jersey. good for you danny!

[deemar325]

George should have flipped the table, Dan spoke ill of Gibbons

He must repent or something

[coydog0]

I love Gibbons art. There's really no one else that could have done Watchmen like him. He made the characters look like regular people dressed up in tights, which is what Moore was going for.

Also, he contributed alot of the visual motifs used in the comic, and brought a classic Curt Swan-esque simplicity to the panel layouts that really tied it to the legacy of the Golden and Silver Age characters.

[scseelig]

Does the band have a CD?

[coydog0]

I will inquire...

-Mike-EL

[Vixtopher]

Warren Ellis is pretty awesome. Imma check out Transmetropolitan.... yupppp