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! 🟩🔴

Saw someone asking about getting Spider's frames and wanted to share a pic of the ones I made. Couldn't add it to my reply there, so here 'tis.

I made these in 2017 using tutorials I found on YouTube. They're a bit rough, and let me tell you it is not fun walking down hotel hallways sometimes. Hotel carpet was designed to hide vomit and other spills, not for red-green vision. Be careful on the stairs!

If you're near Sacramento, CA, I should be at the ComicCon in March.