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drrockso20 posted:Eh at least it's not the comic version of Wanted, that one is probably the biggest middle finger a comic has ever given to it's readership I mean, the last page was literally the main character giving a middle finger to the reader 
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bull3964 posted:I mean, they are certainly setting the stage of that with the last few episodes of the first season with Butcher refusing to go rescue the team, wanting instead to go after Homelander through Stillwell. Hughie steps up to devise a plan to save everyone else himself. Plus he shoots Starlight (basically the co-protagonist) with a loving huge gun that I'm sure was meant to kill her
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PostNouveau posted:Plus he shoots Starlight (basically the co-protagonist) with a loving huge gun that I'm sure was meant to kill her yo easy on the spoilers this isn’t the boys thread e: nm i probably tapped it on accident
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MizPiz posted:I mean, the last page was literally the main character giving a middle finger to the reader Well I meant metaphorically, not just on a literal level Also on the topic of edgy comics getting adapted for other media, hopefully this eventually leads to us getting an adaptation of Transmetropolitan(though I'm not too sure who they could get to play Spider Jerusalem), and also hopefully the announced movie adaptation of Body Bags actually goes somewhere as well(cause Batista is probably the best pick they could ever find for Clownface)
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drrockso20 posted:(though I'm not too sure who they could get to play Spider Jerusalem) James Urbaniak
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For a long time Patrick Stewart was trying to get Transmetropolitan made with himself as Spider.
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Splint Chesthair posted:For a long time Patrick Stewart was trying to get Transmetropolitan made with himself as Spider. Too unrealistic a decade ago. Too realistic now.
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Splint Chesthair posted:For a long time Patrick Stewart was trying to get Transmetropolitan made with himself as Spider. As much as I love Patrick Stewart, I don't think he could have pulled it off quite right
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drrockso20 posted:As much as I love Patrick Stewart, I don't think he could have pulled it off quite right I think it's possible if he can get Vinnie Jones as an acting partner/coach Edit: Granted, it wouldn't be the exact same character as the comic, but I think Patrick channeling Vinnie would make someone who's recognizably Spider Jerusalem. MizPiz fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Aug 21, 2019 |
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Transmetropolitan hasn't aged well in some ways, it's VERY 'end of history'.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Transmetropolitan hasn't aged well in some ways, it's VERY 'end of history'. I dunno I thought it aged well all things considered EXCEPT when it came to the "Transients" part of the setting, that part aged like milk(indeed I wouldn't be surprised if that part gets dropped entirely if it ever gets adapted)
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I reread it all during the 2016 election and was very upset by how barely exaggerated it is anymore
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Unmature posted:I reread it all during the 2016 election and was very upset by how barely exaggerated it is anymore It really makes me wonder how Hunter would have felt about that election, one of many reasons I'm sad he's gone
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drrockso20 posted:It really makes me wonder how Hunter would have felt about that election, one of many reasons I'm sad he's gone I'm just going to assume incoherent profane rage and/or laughter on the level of a Dark Souls NPC.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Transmetropolitan hasn't aged well in some ways, it's VERY 'end of history'. It's been a while since I read it but the part that ages the worst in my memory was every plot point where getting his articles out hinged on convincing/bribing/threatening an established news outlet into publishing them, instead of just going on Twitter.
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wizzardstaff posted:It's been a while since I read it but the part that ages the worst in my memory was every plot point where getting his articles out hinged on convincing/bribing/threatening an established news outlet into publishing them, instead of just going on Twitter. He actually goes on the equivalent of a no-name blog eventually after being forced off the newspapers. They kinda got the internet better than most but clearly underestimated how big it'd get.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:He actually goes on the equivalent of a no-name blog eventually after being forced off the newspapers. They kinda got the internet better than most but clearly underestimated how big it'd get. Yeah, but even then didn't he have to, like, join the writing staff rather than just self-publishing? Like I said it's been a while but I remember there being a lot of tension because he would write something important but was powerless to distribute it by himself.
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wizzardstaff posted:Yeah, but even then didn't he have to, like, join the writing staff rather than just self-publishing? Like I said it's been a while but I remember there being a lot of tension because he would write something important but was powerless to distribute it by himself. it's a lot more difficult to self-publish without institutional support, and have anyone actually see your poo poo and take it seriously, than it was even ten years ago like I can't think of a recent complete nobody with meager resources who broke through by just having a blog if it were re-written with a Twitter analog in mind, Spider would be raging about not being able to get a blue checkmark
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drrockso20 posted:It really makes me wonder how Hunter would have felt about that election, one of many reasons I'm sad he's gone I frequently wonder similar, and also what Bill Hicks would be saying, if he made it past Bush 2.
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drrockso20 posted:It really makes me wonder how Hunter would have felt about that election, one of many reasons I'm sad he's gone just read his articles about mcgovern v nixon
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not to say hillary was like mcgovern but his coverage of the 72 dem primary was very amusing to read in 2017
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Great news! Rusty Venture's Illinois driver's license number would be V536-8176-0123. Seriously. There's a formula, and if you know the person's first and last name, middle initial, and birthdate, you can figure it out.
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tarlibone posted:Great news! Somewhere in a Meatpacking District utility closet, quietly and without any fuss, a red light starts to blink.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Transmetropolitan hasn't aged well in some ways, it's VERY 'end of history'. Wait'll you hear about this time period we're living in!
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Transmetropolitan hasn't aged well in some ways, it's VERY 'end of history'. Here I thought the Beast was currently in office.
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Kesper North posted:Here I thought the Beast was currently in office. They have a whole issue specifically about how the Beast actually does know what he's doing.
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Transmetroplitan has aged better than basically every other comic discussed in the thread because he was basically spot on about everything.
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Bust Rodd posted:Transmetroplitan has aged better than basically every other comic discussed in the thread because he was basically spot on about everything. Except when it came to the Transients(and that one other minority that I can't remember what they were called), that part of the comic was basically a festering sore pretty much every time it came up past the first arc or so
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The people who splice their DNA with aliens? Who get beaten by cops and no one gives a poo poo about them because of the way they look? What’s the problem with that exactly? I have the comics on my shelf, I might as well dove back in.
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I just starts reading transmetropolitan and I feel pretty confident that it's a reference to trans people.
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Just by the description I've gotten on this page, it's pretty spot on.
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Bust Rodd posted:The people who splice their DNA with aliens? Who get beaten by cops and no one gives a poo poo about them because of the way they look? It mostly comes down to the fact that they pretty much only exist in the comic to get shat upon by the universe at every possible moment, which yeah is unfortunately kinda realistic but it's also depressing in a way that detracts from the quality of the comic basically every time they show up after that first arc(not to mention they stick out like a rather sore thumb once the comic dials down the more fantastical elements in the later parts of the comic, and even before that they always felt kinda out of place) Not to mention Warren Ellis can't really seem to make up his mind over the comic's run over either how seriously he wants to treat the Transients and their plight, or exactly what they are supposed to be a metaphor for, it's basically the only major flaw I feel the comic has
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37 new posts. I wonder what Venture Brothers news there is? Oh 
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It's The Venture Brothers, never expect news within a year of the most recent season.
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It's The Venture Brothers thread, never expect anything other than pop-culture tangents.
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Mega64 posted:It's The Venture Brothers, never expect news within a year of the most recent season. Yeah, I know this. I'm just making dumb jokes about the derail while I kill time waiting for actual news.
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Its kinda expected but hey anything to keep this thread going is fine with me
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I don’t wanna derail further so I’ll just say that they’re never painted as something to be hated or feared, they’re painted as “others who want to live their lives but who make people uncomfortable by existing” and I don’t feel like that’s a bad read for a minority suffering from violence and police brutality.
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