Transmetropolitan #5 - What Spider Watches on TV
It's unprecedented, but I actually have in front of me both a scanner and a comic, at the same time, in the same room, and as such it's virtually a law of physics that I should bump the two together and see what spawns. I thought I'd share a little snippet from Transmetropolitan, in which Spider succumbs to advertising - and let's face it, who wouldn't with these babies?
For anyone who's unfamiliar with Transmet, Spider Jerusalem is a journalist who lives and works in a vivid, noisy headfuck of a city implied to have once been New York. In this particular extract, he has decided to watch TV for the day for the purposes of research. Or, in his own words: "So, my assistant says to me, 'You learn about a culture from its television. My boyfriend and I went to St Petersburg and did nothing but watch TV in our room and hump the whole time'. She likes to add these little details to annoy me. She knows I haven't had sex since dinosaurs roamed the earth."
How wrong is it that I'm sure I've seen a Garfield strip with the same punchline? And also that the combination of tattoos, shorts and sneakers means Spider's kind of reminding me of David Beckham.
An extra bonus, since I'm here, someone in the old community was kind enough to share this image with me when I admired their icon of it. I'm sorry, I can't remember who. I wanna say Rr-something, but that might just be because gratuitous rolling R's are definitely appropriate in the context.
One guy has a bottle. The other has a tail. The possibilities are actually kind of blowing my mind.