Book · 1998 · Journalists
Transmetropolitan
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Why people recommend it
Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis is a celebrated science fiction comic book series featuring a cynical investigative journalist as its protagonist in a gritty, futuristic society. Robert Evans discussed the title across multiple episodes of Behind the Bastards. In a Q&A episode, Evans mentioned reading Transmetropolitan as an adolescent and how it influenced his early interest in journalism, recalling the impact the story had on him as an eighteen or nineteen-year-old. Later, during a weekly episode, Evans brought up the comic series while discussing what motivates journalists to keep working when it feels like they are shouting into a void. He highlighted a great speech within the series about how journalism functions like a weapon wired directly into the eyes and ears of a reporter to shoot back at the world. Throughout these mentions, Evans underscored the creative and philosophical resonance of the comic, using it to illustrate the raw drive, cynicism, and ethical burdens inherent to the pursuit of truth in a deeply chaotic and corrupt environment.
Every mention
Robert Evans Um, and then I don't know, like as a an 18, 19year-old reading Trans Metropolitan for the first time. It's… 2
“Um, and then I don't know, like as a an 18, 19year-old reading Trans Metropolitan for the first time. It's a comic book series with a journalist as a protagonist that's set in the in the far future. It's very good.”
“there's a great speech in the comic series Trans Metropolitan about how journalism is a gun uh that you you wire up to your eyes and your ears and several other organs in order to shoot at the world.”
