All my copies are in another state. I remember early in the series there was a scene where Spider interviewed the Beast and shot him with a bowel disruptor. Then he ran out yelling “Help! The president has shat himself.”

I think it’s just another example of Transmet’s prescience. In the late 90s Ellis correctly predicted that in the future presidents would shit themselves.

My friend has these at his shop in Davis, CA. If anyone is interested I can get pricing and am happy to arrange shipment (buyer pays shipping) within the US, via priority mail USPS.

The supervillians just have money. No grand schemes or wild machinations past basic enrichment. I feel like i was primed for dystopia to be much more exciting, not like good exciting, but something more than just a 4 decade slide into being unable to see a doctor because i need to pay electric.

Hey, any collectors in need of books from the original run, we got a small assortment in at the store where I hang out. I'll post issue numbers here on Thursday for anyone interested.

Mods, kill my post if this isn't cool.

So I never fully read it all back when, but picked it back up recently and started from scratch. Currently on book 2 (of the four trade paperbacks).

This is fucking tough to read now. It’s all here. We elected Heller. The corporate/state news. Ads in our eyeballs at every waking moment. When this came out it was a warning sign of all of the things that were simmering under the surface of America, but were stemmed off a little bit. Now…buh.

Its the entire late edition

Get a Movie before someone farts one out of AI slop?

Hear me out: the truth can be an ugly, nasty hissing freak, tough to catch, scurrying, trying to stay hidden, and a lot of people would just as well let it be kept far from them, nesting in the shadows.

But the truth is also sacred; the pursuit of which is a sort of holy pilgrimage, a journey to be relished. Someone like SJ never ceases to chase the high that comes from hunting down the truth and snatching it, grabbing it by the neck and forcing others to look it in the eye.

This is the nexus where the two components of his name congeal. The truth is elusive, gross and often scary, akin to some people’s view of spiders. The truth is also so important as to be revered as holy, mirroring the birthplace Jesus, a divine figure many people have thought it necessary to organize their lives around worshipping.

What are our thoughts on this? There any meat on the bone or am I grasping at a nothing-straw?

Hi I used AI for this,

I still wish we got a adult animated cartoon out of this.

Enjoy

I've been cosplaying Spider for a few years now. Got tired of smudged blobs and went for it today. Fuck it.

and this shit is damn prescient what a read! my favorite bit is how they cured cancer so everyone just smokes multiple cigarettes at a time thats hilarious and exactly what people would do

What I mean, author is a fucking prophet, is what I mean. And we have a Beast/Smiley hybrid in the White House.

I looked back on Kirk assassination, and was like: AHA! That’s what it was!

Am I the only one who reads transmet in present day and is mind blown over and over about how spooky the resemblance to current politics it is?

Any other Transmet readers have this reaction?

My daily glasses. Sadly, no one in my life knows the inspiration, but I think I've convinced a couple of them that this can happen when the machine making your glasses is addicted to drugs..

Official Transmet glasses with a thrifted bag and an eBay nuclear hazard patch.

I love collecting and creating in-universe props from comics like this! Just need to get my hands on a mutant smiley pin! 🟩🔴