Episode 118 - Transmetropolitan Part 1

About this episode

This episode covers the first six issues of the comic book Transmetropolitan, focusing on its themes and the character Spider.

This episode will be covering the first six issues of the 1997 comic book Transmetropolitan. Transmetropolitan is a story about a guy named Spider, who is super cool 90s edgelord journalist, searching for truth in a remarkably prescient cyberpunk future. It's a lot to cover, and this is just the first 10th of the whole series, but consider this your intro to Transmet course. The High Tech Low Life Podcast is a retrospective of cyberpunk fiction across all forms of media. Film, Television, Literature, Games, and Music are all on the table. In each episode we will revisit the property, it's influences, it's prescience, and enshrine it in the chrome and neon halls of Neo Valhalla. Bluesky: @hightechlowlife.bsky.social Patreon: http://patreon.com/hightechlowlife Cover art by Gillyvor Theme music by http://www.nihilore.com

People in this episode

Host: High Tech Low Life

Topics covered

• cyberpunk
• comic book
• journalism
• 1990s
• media retrospective

Keywords

• Transmetropolitan
• Spider
• cyberpunk
• comic book
• 1997
• journalism
• media

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Transmetropolitan

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