Transmetropolitan: Filth of the City (2001-)
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Transmetropolitan
Comic - Sci-Fi
TRANSMETROPOLITAN begins here, collecting the acclaimed Vertigo series from writer Warren Ellis and artist Darick Robertson! After years of self-imposed exile from a civilization rife withdegradation and indecency, cynical journalist Spider Jerusalem is forced to return to a job he hates and a city he loathes. Working as an investigative reporter for the newspaper The Word, Spider attacks the injustices of his surreal 23rd-centurysurroundings. In this first volume, Spider ventures into the dangerous Angels 8 district, home of the Transients — humans who have decided to become aliens through cosmetic surgery. But Spider's interview with the Transients' leader gets him a scoophe didn't bargain for. And don't miss Spider's first confrontation with the President of the United States . . . in a men's room.
Metal Hurlant
Comic - Sci-Fi
A collection of Sci-Fi masterpieces featuring stories by acclaimed creators Geoff Johns and Kurt Busiek.
Transmetropolitan: I Hate It Here (2000-)
Comic - Sci-Fi
Collecting the best of Spider's columns from The Word—from his reluctant return to the City and forced adaptation to a future where truth is obsolete, moving through his rise to fame and fortune over the bodies of his enemies, culminating in his current condition of focused mental illness!
Junk Culture (1997-)
Comic - Sci-Fi
When two teenage girls discover that reality's not quite what they've been programmed to believe, a suburban town gets totaled. Gratuitous icons, mass-media manipulation and psycho-pop science coagulate in this 2-issue tour-de-force that exposes the copious junk in modern culture.
Fringe: Tales from the Fringe (2010-)
Comic - Sci-Fi
Introducing an all-new 6-issue miniseries featuring tales set in the world of the hit TV series! In the first story, Peter Bishop is forced to choose between doing the right thing—saving a troubled young man pressed into service as a suicide bomber—or scoring a dream job. In the second story, a high school girl finds herself inexplicably transformed into an adult. Even more shocking...she's an assassin!
Deadenders
Comic - Sci-Fi
In this stylized book of mystery and science fiction, a drug-dealing car thief must discover the secret behind his visions in order to save the world. Twenty years after the devastating Cataclysm, society has been separated into sectors in which the rich are able to enjoy machine-generated weather and sunlight while the poor are forced to live an eternally dank and dark existence. Banished to the dismal Sector 5, the angst-ridden Beezer discovers that the corrupt city police are hunting him because of his experiential visions of a pre-apocalyptic world. Now Earth's reluctant savior must learn his true origin and the meaning of his visions before he is captured and killed.
This trade reprints critically acclaimed writer Ed Brubaker's DEADENDERS issues 1-16 as well as Vertigo Winter's Edge #3!0
Industrial Gothic (1995-)
Comic - Sci-Fi
In a world of rigidly enforced aesthetic fascism, two outcasts-a psychologically tormented man and his limbless mate-plan an ambitious jailbreak from their state-run institution home. Thus begins their journey across a Fellini-esque landscape of abandoned power plants, marauding gangs, bizarre inhabitants, and ghostly apparitions as the lovers search for The Tabernacle, a legendary sanctuary where misfits like themselves are said to live in freedom and fulfillment.
Strange Adventures (1950-1973)
Comic - Sci-Fi
Don't miss this collection of science fiction short stories from some of Vertigo's all-time greats, as well as the hot new talents of tomorrow! From the far reaches of space to the not so distant future, this anthology is loaded with unsettling short stories that will hijack your imagination and take you to strange, mysterious places. Collects Strange Adventures #1 and Mystery in Space #1.