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Kudos to whoever constructed the phrase "infamous renegade gonzo journalist of the future". While being perfectly true, it sounds exactly like a sci-fi movie poster—which is just the tone I think it should aim for. I love it. Journalist from the Year 5000! Anville 16:50, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I liked this bit 'passing resemblance to Tony Blair, Ellis' own Prime Minister.' I makes it sound like he's Ellis' own personal Prime Minister. Len, 14:30, 8 July
It's been mentioned before that while a lot of the political issues in Transmetropolitan are based on past American politicians, Warren Ellis has himself said that a lot of it is still as much about British politics as anything else.-- MythicFox 09:32, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
Being personally not very gifted or concerned with editing Wikipedia, I have no idea how to add a spoiler box above the plot synopsis, but I definitely think it should be added, considering it summarizes everything in the comic from beginning to end. Shralla 08:42, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
The article says that the city that transmetropoltan is never named. That is not true
"The City" is the name of the city. The city has its own congressmen and senators. One might draw on this that The City is a megatropolis the stretches the length of the Atlantic coast
-This seems obviously true to me. There has been some restructuring of America in the comic's past; Note the "retirement states" formerly known as the west coast, and if memory serves the southern part is called something like "gun state". When the entire east coast has been united in a single city - it will actually happen, you know - why not call it the City?
-I would also like to add that the presence of the 'Statue of Liberty' does not prove that The City is New York, regardless if the name was simply changed. The statue holds a sword in place of a torch. Its possible the statue was changed, but it could also be a different, though similar statue. Also, toward the end of the series, a number of corrispondents in Washington refer to it as "The City", it seems to be the accepted name everywhere. Also I dont know much American geography, but is New York anywhere near any mountains? That The City is boardered on one side by the Atlantic ocean and another by mountains may alow us to conjecture its location. Or maybe Warren Ellis doesnt think such things are worth thinking about so much, and The City's location isnt even possible, which is fair enough.
-I've read the series several times, and before I looked here, I was convinced that The City was a tremendously expanded San Francisco. The main reasons were:
But then, it is mostly just a big city with a coast, and does seem to be sort of generalized beyond that.
Another point in favor of the NYC theory: Issue 32, pg 14, top panel, Spider is cast as the figure with his back to us in an updated version of Edward Hopper's ''Nighthawks''. According to the entry for the painting, the diner was based on a Greenwich Village diner. On the other, the diner has been demolished since Hopper's time, so It could have been rebuilt anywhere. I get the distinct impression that the City is an amalgam of all the great American cities, and being an LA resident I of course think that New York tops that list. I half wonder if they don't have some weird kind of space-wrinkle thing that makes the city literally an amalgam of all the great cities. Sherpajack joekepps@gmail.com 68.190.216.13 ( talk) 19:19, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
I've removed the statement regarding The City being loosely based on a futuristic New York. There are simply too many conflicting references. I've lived in NYC and San Francisco, and see references to both; driving down from the mountains and crossing a bridge to get to the city - that's San Francisco. The nickname "The City" - arguably both lay claim to this nickname (as does London), although I've only seen it memorialized in a logo for San Francisco (the GG Bridge in a circle with the term "the City" below it on t-shirts and posters). HST lived in San Francisco when he pioneered gonzo journalism. The revival - Mary, as previously mentioned, was in SF. The Mission District (in the comic) is the exact name of a neighborhood in San Francisco. For that matter, the Civic Center neighborhood in San Francisco (as it is actually named) is on the US Register of Historic Places (and shows up first on a WP search of the name Civic Center). And the hyper liberal, outside of mainstream nature of the City is more reflective of SF than NYC.
Note that I'm NOT saying the City is based on SF. I see the parallels with NYC, too. It's clearly an amalgam. I'm simply saying it's not "based" on either, and to say that it is is false. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.206.0.179 ( talk) 23:58, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
This article lacks the release date of the comic, which is an important piece of information. I noticed because I wanted to know whether the blog-spirit in the comic was very avant-garde at the time. Unfortunately I'm currently in a state of mind that doesn't allow me to research and add it on my own :o, so I add this comment. 62.206.74.26 22:08, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
Is it confirmed that Spider Jerusalem is named after Spider Robinson? I'm a big fan of Transmet and Spider Robinson, but I have difficulty seeing any logical connection.
Both the parties use both red and blue colors, probably because the red and blue parties of today become more and more alike. At some point at least the republicans have become extinct - note the numerous references to the "republican party reservation" - and the parties in the comic's present aren't easily recognizable by today's standards, though they're mostly characterized by preservative contra progressive ideologies. And it seems they're simply called "The party in government" and "The party in opposition", trading names as they trade places. Anyway, I was thinking maybe some of that would have a place in the article?
True on all counts. 'Opposition' is in fact the British term for an opposing political party, usually, the one that came in second. In the case of the present government, it is the Conservatives who are in Opposition. A point that could be made about the absence of clear bi-partisan labellings and of a 'name' for The City is that it's the writer's way of reiterating a point he makes in the the first issue of the second volume, Lust for Life: 'There is no real America, you living afterbirth! There's no real City! All there is, is what we make it.'
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Is there any word about the connection between real word writer Joseph Heller and President Heller? The first time the Beast is called by his birth name, it's "Joe Heller", though it seems to be consistently "Bob" for the rest of the series. I smell a DC cover-up to avoid lawsuits. . .
-If I may correct you there, Heller was the other opposition presidential hopeful besides Smiler, and was only refered to as Bob I think, since he was only in one issue. I think Heller may just be a very Germanic name (a search in Wiki turns up a number of German, Austrian and Hungarian people) I dont think the Beast's name is ever revealed, his campaign material only ever refered to him as 'The President'.
--Maybe Joe Heller was someone else, but this is the Beast: http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/7144/heller1qv.jpg
Agreed. 'The Beast', whilst probably about a half-foot or two taller than Heller is a lot stockier built, has dark hair and an unsmiling face. His campaign literature frequently uses the slogan 'Hard Man. Hard Job.'
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I was under the impression that smiler was (at least physically) Robert Kennedy, JFKs bro... Have a look at his wiki entry,, or go to http://www.americanphoto.co.jp/pages/celebrity/K/Previews/Plans-11332.jpg Tony blair seems a long stretch as well.
So considering that the Beast is Nixon, Smiler is Kennedy, where does Blair fit into it, should it be changed?
Did this article actually exist at one point and just got moved, or does this need complete creation? Having an empty link be the only item in a section seems a bit off to me. Deafgeek 00:07, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
I've noticed in several issues that grafitti says "free Steve Chung." In the last (or near enough) issue, a background item proclaims "Steve Chung free!" or somesuch. I'm not sure on the specifics, but the references happen at least once an issue towards the last half of the comic's lifespan. It's not a central theme, I know, but it seems like something deliberately put in there, an 'easter egg' of sorts. We might want to put that in the article. 129.237.90.24 03:34, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
>>Oh, I know this one on hearsay from a friend. Steve Chung was apparently some guy who, in the early run of Transmet, would send long emails to Warren Ellis about the tiny little details in every panel of the comic. Apparently Ellis and Robertson decided that Steve Chung was some guy who was kidnapped and locked up somewhere with nothing but a new copy of Transmet every month and needed to be freed. —Preceding
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We should probably have a contents box on the entry...I don't know how to do it, but the article has enough subsections to justify it. 68.102.179.135 05:15, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
D'you think we can fit this in somewhere? Noted here so I don't forget it, as I won't get the chance to do it properly right now. Warren Ellis said [1]:
“ | I really don't see the City of Transmet as dystopian. It's just like where we live now. There are horrible fucking things and there are things of sublime beauty, and they all live in the same place. | ” |
-- Mrph 10:16, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
I added a link from the Transmetropolitan page, for a site that stars Spider Jerusalem in ongoing webcomics. (I won't bother to mention it or post a link, because I'm sure the reference will disappear.) The user Dragonfiend has taken it upon himself to erase this, and other bits I've posted, regardless of whether or not the links I added were relevant. This came about after I had the "audacity" to post a relevant link in the webcomics page. Since then he has systematically "edited" out just about everything I've posted, or edited myself. This kind of behavior is nothing new for Dragonfiend, and if you read his page here, you'll see what I mean. Put simply, Wiki doesn't belong to ONE person, nor should ONE person decide what is and isn't appropriate. Unfortunately, Wiki's rules of "mediation" favor the individual who deletes material, and the burden of proving the relevance of material lands on the original poster. People like Dragonfiend pick and choose what THEY think is appropriate to appear in Wiki, all the while hiding behind Wiki's policy of non-hostility when they decide to obliterate someone else's contributions.
I'm not particularly concerned that my username here will become invalid or get banned, so please spare me the (obviously memorized) warning about Wiki's code of conduct, Dragonfiend. Only a sad, misanthropic individual would devote so much time to policing a website that doesn't belong to him or her. Someone needs to contribute a piece on Wiki Fascists, the folks who know what you need to know, before you even think to ask. Anothermic 21:36, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the unsolicited review of the link, I'll pass on your thoughts. However, I don't believe either you or Dragonfiend are in a position to dismiss the relevance of that link, which was posted in *two* entire pages. For months, I might add, until Dragonfiend took it upon himself to single out what I had posted for removal. What got this started was my posting of a third link, in the webcomics page. I edited that entry three times, trying to create what I thought was an in-context link, but hours after posting it I returned to remove it. Yes, it was an inappropriate link for that particular page, since so few active webcomics were mentioned or linked-to. If Dragonfiend had been a little later, he wouldn't have had to edit anything. If you are not inclined to take the word of a "link-spammer," I will understand. Since my actions are being called into question, I am simply responding with the truth. I'm curious if you or Dragonfiend would like to explain why a webcomic that stars Spider Jerusalem, with ample references to the Transmet book is "inappropriate" for people who are interested in the character? The site in question can live without the half-dozen referrals Wiki sends in a week, so no one is going to cry themself to sleep over this. But I find the actions of Dragonfiend at least as suspect as he (and you, it would seem) find mine. I'm not in a position to press my case, so no one needs to worry that the problem will escalate. Without a cadre of vocal supporters to say that those links were valid, Dragonfiend (and you, perhaps) would continue to follow my infrequent edits, and "correct" them. If that's what Wiki is about for you, I'm genuinely sorry. I use this website every day, and the posts I made were in the way of contributions, not project pimping.
Anothermic 22:15, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
one of the crazy people on the street (in a later issue of transmet, i don't recall which one at the moment) has an excerpt from a rant that's been around on the net for a while, about people being reborn from their asses. http://people.tribe.net/ferrarabrainpan maybe link it as an external reference?
NB: before ferrara brain pan used it, it showed up as a "true statement by delfim sousa" http://web.archive.org/web/20020802023933/http://www.esophagus.com/sousa.html Rmd1023 04:38, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
2 Continuity statements were removed by me for the following reasons:
The "Revival Mary" camera claim that she received the camera after events is not a continuity error. No mention is made of when she recieved the camera and it is safe to assume it was given to her before the Sacht meeting with Fred Christ. (ConallB Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. 08:59, 12 September 2007 (UTC))
It is true that no date is mentioned for Spider giving Mary the camera, yet an honest reading of the comic points quite well towards a continuity problem. Let's recapitulate : Mary is introduced in #8. Vita Severn is killed at the end of #18. In #22, which is naturally supposed to take place afterwards (if anything, because it is part of a story arc that comes after the "year of the bastard" arc), Spider gives Mary the camera, and the dialogue (p.16), though more allusive than anything else, does not make sense if it is not about Vita's assassination (at least, I can't make any sense out of it without that in mind : what would "little vendetta", "gathering evidence" mean at a point in the story prior #18 ?). Mary does not reappear until #57, where she gives Spider a photo she is supposed to have taken quite some time before Vita was killed. Not mentioning the deus ex machina dimension of that event, which is not relevant here, it quite strongly indicates some kind of continuity break. I think, if it is established as a subject worthy of dealing with in the article (which it might not be), that it would be fair to mention both the ambiguity of the chronology and the number of elements that indicate a an error. Sorry if this was a little too long... 129.199.159.148 ( talk) 01:12, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
Channon Yarrow's nipples changing from bar codes to normal is not a continuity error. Just because the authors don't venture down a completely inane and irrelevant sideline does not make it a continuity error. Put down the comic and get some fresh air if you think it's that important to list in the article. (ConallB Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. 08:59, 12 September 2007 (UTC))
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I deleted the 'Politics and Trivia' section for multiple reasons. Mainly because it was literally mostly guesswork and random observations. Clever ones, mind you, but all original research. Suitable for a LiveJournal or weblog but not Wikipedia. But the most important reason I deleted it was because it compared real people to murderous insane psychotic people. This, quite simply, cannot be allowed on Wikipedia and is, in fact, not. You can't compare real people to fictional bad guys. Just not allowed. Lots42 ( talk) 14:44, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
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Is the plot to Peter Jackson's and Neill Blomkamp's movie "District 9" suspiciously reminiscent of the Greys in "Angels 8"? -- Eldin raigmore ( talk) 21:28, 19 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eldin raigmore ( talk • contribs) 00:37, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
I think we need a separate List of Transmetropolitan story arcs article. With this new article, we could clean up the main article by shortening the plot synopsis section and cleaning up collected edition section with currently include the back cover summaries from the trades.-- Marcus Brute ( talk) 00:06, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
The plot section is crammed with run-on sentences. Also, I think it's noteable to somehow mention that Spider's weird glasses were because his A.I. 'maker' was screwed up on mechanical-drugs. I'd do all this myself but my computer is running wild. This comment serves double duty as a test message. Lots42 ( talk) 10:58, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
I don't know much about Wikipedia, so it's possible I'm misunderstanding the way things are classified here, but I was a little surprised to find the City described as "liberal." It seems to me it's liberal on social policy and conservative on civil liberties and economic policy. Any thoughts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.73.153.254 ( talk) 18:19, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
It may be worth adding that the first absolute edition is released containing the first 3 TPBs. 87.173.245.49 ( talk) 13:44, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
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Kudos to whoever constructed the phrase "infamous renegade gonzo journalist of the future". While being perfectly true, it sounds exactly like a sci-fi movie poster—which is just the tone I think it should aim for. I love it. Journalist from the Year 5000! Anville 16:50, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
I liked this bit 'passing resemblance to Tony Blair, Ellis' own Prime Minister.' I makes it sound like he's Ellis' own personal Prime Minister. Len, 14:30, 8 July
It's been mentioned before that while a lot of the political issues in Transmetropolitan are based on past American politicians, Warren Ellis has himself said that a lot of it is still as much about British politics as anything else.-- MythicFox 09:32, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
Being personally not very gifted or concerned with editing Wikipedia, I have no idea how to add a spoiler box above the plot synopsis, but I definitely think it should be added, considering it summarizes everything in the comic from beginning to end. Shralla 08:42, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
The article says that the city that transmetropoltan is never named. That is not true
"The City" is the name of the city. The city has its own congressmen and senators. One might draw on this that The City is a megatropolis the stretches the length of the Atlantic coast
-This seems obviously true to me. There has been some restructuring of America in the comic's past; Note the "retirement states" formerly known as the west coast, and if memory serves the southern part is called something like "gun state". When the entire east coast has been united in a single city - it will actually happen, you know - why not call it the City?
-I would also like to add that the presence of the 'Statue of Liberty' does not prove that The City is New York, regardless if the name was simply changed. The statue holds a sword in place of a torch. Its possible the statue was changed, but it could also be a different, though similar statue. Also, toward the end of the series, a number of corrispondents in Washington refer to it as "The City", it seems to be the accepted name everywhere. Also I dont know much American geography, but is New York anywhere near any mountains? That The City is boardered on one side by the Atlantic ocean and another by mountains may alow us to conjecture its location. Or maybe Warren Ellis doesnt think such things are worth thinking about so much, and The City's location isnt even possible, which is fair enough.
-I've read the series several times, and before I looked here, I was convinced that The City was a tremendously expanded San Francisco. The main reasons were:
But then, it is mostly just a big city with a coast, and does seem to be sort of generalized beyond that.
Another point in favor of the NYC theory: Issue 32, pg 14, top panel, Spider is cast as the figure with his back to us in an updated version of Edward Hopper's ''Nighthawks''. According to the entry for the painting, the diner was based on a Greenwich Village diner. On the other, the diner has been demolished since Hopper's time, so It could have been rebuilt anywhere. I get the distinct impression that the City is an amalgam of all the great American cities, and being an LA resident I of course think that New York tops that list. I half wonder if they don't have some weird kind of space-wrinkle thing that makes the city literally an amalgam of all the great cities. Sherpajack joekepps@gmail.com 68.190.216.13 ( talk) 19:19, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
I've removed the statement regarding The City being loosely based on a futuristic New York. There are simply too many conflicting references. I've lived in NYC and San Francisco, and see references to both; driving down from the mountains and crossing a bridge to get to the city - that's San Francisco. The nickname "The City" - arguably both lay claim to this nickname (as does London), although I've only seen it memorialized in a logo for San Francisco (the GG Bridge in a circle with the term "the City" below it on t-shirts and posters). HST lived in San Francisco when he pioneered gonzo journalism. The revival - Mary, as previously mentioned, was in SF. The Mission District (in the comic) is the exact name of a neighborhood in San Francisco. For that matter, the Civic Center neighborhood in San Francisco (as it is actually named) is on the US Register of Historic Places (and shows up first on a WP search of the name Civic Center). And the hyper liberal, outside of mainstream nature of the City is more reflective of SF than NYC.
Note that I'm NOT saying the City is based on SF. I see the parallels with NYC, too. It's clearly an amalgam. I'm simply saying it's not "based" on either, and to say that it is is false. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.206.0.179 ( talk) 23:58, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
This article lacks the release date of the comic, which is an important piece of information. I noticed because I wanted to know whether the blog-spirit in the comic was very avant-garde at the time. Unfortunately I'm currently in a state of mind that doesn't allow me to research and add it on my own :o, so I add this comment. 62.206.74.26 22:08, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
Is it confirmed that Spider Jerusalem is named after Spider Robinson? I'm a big fan of Transmet and Spider Robinson, but I have difficulty seeing any logical connection.
Both the parties use both red and blue colors, probably because the red and blue parties of today become more and more alike. At some point at least the republicans have become extinct - note the numerous references to the "republican party reservation" - and the parties in the comic's present aren't easily recognizable by today's standards, though they're mostly characterized by preservative contra progressive ideologies. And it seems they're simply called "The party in government" and "The party in opposition", trading names as they trade places. Anyway, I was thinking maybe some of that would have a place in the article?
True on all counts. 'Opposition' is in fact the British term for an opposing political party, usually, the one that came in second. In the case of the present government, it is the Conservatives who are in Opposition. A point that could be made about the absence of clear bi-partisan labellings and of a 'name' for The City is that it's the writer's way of reiterating a point he makes in the the first issue of the second volume, Lust for Life: 'There is no real America, you living afterbirth! There's no real City! All there is, is what we make it.'
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Is there any word about the connection between real word writer Joseph Heller and President Heller? The first time the Beast is called by his birth name, it's "Joe Heller", though it seems to be consistently "Bob" for the rest of the series. I smell a DC cover-up to avoid lawsuits. . .
-If I may correct you there, Heller was the other opposition presidential hopeful besides Smiler, and was only refered to as Bob I think, since he was only in one issue. I think Heller may just be a very Germanic name (a search in Wiki turns up a number of German, Austrian and Hungarian people) I dont think the Beast's name is ever revealed, his campaign material only ever refered to him as 'The President'.
--Maybe Joe Heller was someone else, but this is the Beast: http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/7144/heller1qv.jpg
Agreed. 'The Beast', whilst probably about a half-foot or two taller than Heller is a lot stockier built, has dark hair and an unsmiling face. His campaign literature frequently uses the slogan 'Hard Man. Hard Job.'
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I was under the impression that smiler was (at least physically) Robert Kennedy, JFKs bro... Have a look at his wiki entry,, or go to http://www.americanphoto.co.jp/pages/celebrity/K/Previews/Plans-11332.jpg Tony blair seems a long stretch as well.
So considering that the Beast is Nixon, Smiler is Kennedy, where does Blair fit into it, should it be changed?
Did this article actually exist at one point and just got moved, or does this need complete creation? Having an empty link be the only item in a section seems a bit off to me. Deafgeek 00:07, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
I've noticed in several issues that grafitti says "free Steve Chung." In the last (or near enough) issue, a background item proclaims "Steve Chung free!" or somesuch. I'm not sure on the specifics, but the references happen at least once an issue towards the last half of the comic's lifespan. It's not a central theme, I know, but it seems like something deliberately put in there, an 'easter egg' of sorts. We might want to put that in the article. 129.237.90.24 03:34, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
>>Oh, I know this one on hearsay from a friend. Steve Chung was apparently some guy who, in the early run of Transmet, would send long emails to Warren Ellis about the tiny little details in every panel of the comic. Apparently Ellis and Robertson decided that Steve Chung was some guy who was kidnapped and locked up somewhere with nothing but a new copy of Transmet every month and needed to be freed. —Preceding
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We should probably have a contents box on the entry...I don't know how to do it, but the article has enough subsections to justify it. 68.102.179.135 05:15, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
D'you think we can fit this in somewhere? Noted here so I don't forget it, as I won't get the chance to do it properly right now. Warren Ellis said [1]:
“ | I really don't see the City of Transmet as dystopian. It's just like where we live now. There are horrible fucking things and there are things of sublime beauty, and they all live in the same place. | ” |
-- Mrph 10:16, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
I added a link from the Transmetropolitan page, for a site that stars Spider Jerusalem in ongoing webcomics. (I won't bother to mention it or post a link, because I'm sure the reference will disappear.) The user Dragonfiend has taken it upon himself to erase this, and other bits I've posted, regardless of whether or not the links I added were relevant. This came about after I had the "audacity" to post a relevant link in the webcomics page. Since then he has systematically "edited" out just about everything I've posted, or edited myself. This kind of behavior is nothing new for Dragonfiend, and if you read his page here, you'll see what I mean. Put simply, Wiki doesn't belong to ONE person, nor should ONE person decide what is and isn't appropriate. Unfortunately, Wiki's rules of "mediation" favor the individual who deletes material, and the burden of proving the relevance of material lands on the original poster. People like Dragonfiend pick and choose what THEY think is appropriate to appear in Wiki, all the while hiding behind Wiki's policy of non-hostility when they decide to obliterate someone else's contributions.
I'm not particularly concerned that my username here will become invalid or get banned, so please spare me the (obviously memorized) warning about Wiki's code of conduct, Dragonfiend. Only a sad, misanthropic individual would devote so much time to policing a website that doesn't belong to him or her. Someone needs to contribute a piece on Wiki Fascists, the folks who know what you need to know, before you even think to ask. Anothermic 21:36, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for the unsolicited review of the link, I'll pass on your thoughts. However, I don't believe either you or Dragonfiend are in a position to dismiss the relevance of that link, which was posted in *two* entire pages. For months, I might add, until Dragonfiend took it upon himself to single out what I had posted for removal. What got this started was my posting of a third link, in the webcomics page. I edited that entry three times, trying to create what I thought was an in-context link, but hours after posting it I returned to remove it. Yes, it was an inappropriate link for that particular page, since so few active webcomics were mentioned or linked-to. If Dragonfiend had been a little later, he wouldn't have had to edit anything. If you are not inclined to take the word of a "link-spammer," I will understand. Since my actions are being called into question, I am simply responding with the truth. I'm curious if you or Dragonfiend would like to explain why a webcomic that stars Spider Jerusalem, with ample references to the Transmet book is "inappropriate" for people who are interested in the character? The site in question can live without the half-dozen referrals Wiki sends in a week, so no one is going to cry themself to sleep over this. But I find the actions of Dragonfiend at least as suspect as he (and you, it would seem) find mine. I'm not in a position to press my case, so no one needs to worry that the problem will escalate. Without a cadre of vocal supporters to say that those links were valid, Dragonfiend (and you, perhaps) would continue to follow my infrequent edits, and "correct" them. If that's what Wiki is about for you, I'm genuinely sorry. I use this website every day, and the posts I made were in the way of contributions, not project pimping.
Anothermic 22:15, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
one of the crazy people on the street (in a later issue of transmet, i don't recall which one at the moment) has an excerpt from a rant that's been around on the net for a while, about people being reborn from their asses. http://people.tribe.net/ferrarabrainpan maybe link it as an external reference?
NB: before ferrara brain pan used it, it showed up as a "true statement by delfim sousa" http://web.archive.org/web/20020802023933/http://www.esophagus.com/sousa.html Rmd1023 04:38, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
2 Continuity statements were removed by me for the following reasons:
The "Revival Mary" camera claim that she received the camera after events is not a continuity error. No mention is made of when she recieved the camera and it is safe to assume it was given to her before the Sacht meeting with Fred Christ. (ConallB Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. 08:59, 12 September 2007 (UTC))
It is true that no date is mentioned for Spider giving Mary the camera, yet an honest reading of the comic points quite well towards a continuity problem. Let's recapitulate : Mary is introduced in #8. Vita Severn is killed at the end of #18. In #22, which is naturally supposed to take place afterwards (if anything, because it is part of a story arc that comes after the "year of the bastard" arc), Spider gives Mary the camera, and the dialogue (p.16), though more allusive than anything else, does not make sense if it is not about Vita's assassination (at least, I can't make any sense out of it without that in mind : what would "little vendetta", "gathering evidence" mean at a point in the story prior #18 ?). Mary does not reappear until #57, where she gives Spider a photo she is supposed to have taken quite some time before Vita was killed. Not mentioning the deus ex machina dimension of that event, which is not relevant here, it quite strongly indicates some kind of continuity break. I think, if it is established as a subject worthy of dealing with in the article (which it might not be), that it would be fair to mention both the ambiguity of the chronology and the number of elements that indicate a an error. Sorry if this was a little too long... 129.199.159.148 ( talk) 01:12, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
Channon Yarrow's nipples changing from bar codes to normal is not a continuity error. Just because the authors don't venture down a completely inane and irrelevant sideline does not make it a continuity error. Put down the comic and get some fresh air if you think it's that important to list in the article. (ConallB Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. 08:59, 12 September 2007 (UTC))
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I deleted the 'Politics and Trivia' section for multiple reasons. Mainly because it was literally mostly guesswork and random observations. Clever ones, mind you, but all original research. Suitable for a LiveJournal or weblog but not Wikipedia. But the most important reason I deleted it was because it compared real people to murderous insane psychotic people. This, quite simply, cannot be allowed on Wikipedia and is, in fact, not. You can't compare real people to fictional bad guys. Just not allowed. Lots42 ( talk) 14:44, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
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As this B-Class article has yet to receive a review, it has been rated as C-Class. If you disagree and would like to request an assesment, please visit Wikipedia:WikiProject_Comics/Assessment#Requesting_an_assessment and list the article. Hiding T 14:39, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
Is the plot to Peter Jackson's and Neill Blomkamp's movie "District 9" suspiciously reminiscent of the Greys in "Angels 8"? -- Eldin raigmore ( talk) 21:28, 19 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eldin raigmore ( talk • contribs) 00:37, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
I think we need a separate List of Transmetropolitan story arcs article. With this new article, we could clean up the main article by shortening the plot synopsis section and cleaning up collected edition section with currently include the back cover summaries from the trades.-- Marcus Brute ( talk) 00:06, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
The plot section is crammed with run-on sentences. Also, I think it's noteable to somehow mention that Spider's weird glasses were because his A.I. 'maker' was screwed up on mechanical-drugs. I'd do all this myself but my computer is running wild. This comment serves double duty as a test message. Lots42 ( talk) 10:58, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
I don't know much about Wikipedia, so it's possible I'm misunderstanding the way things are classified here, but I was a little surprised to find the City described as "liberal." It seems to me it's liberal on social policy and conservative on civil liberties and economic policy. Any thoughts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.73.153.254 ( talk) 18:19, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
It may be worth adding that the first absolute edition is released containing the first 3 TPBs. 87.173.245.49 ( talk) 13:44, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
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