Upside: I now have to reread Transmetropolitan for class. Downside: I probably am going to be rereading it until I no longer hold any affection for it, given the 15-20 page requirement.
Specifically I pointed out there's been 4 comics of Vertigo always in print: Hellblazer, Preacher, Sandman, and Transmetropolitan. And the first three are either being adapted to media or have been optioned to be.
Despite the fact that a) right now the current mode seems to be throw everything you can at the television or movie screen comics-wise and it's a political thriller in an era where those might as well be licenses to print money, nobody's touching Transmet.
The main thrust of my argument pre-research, my hypothesis, is that in today's political climate and with media like Person of Interest and Mr. Robot that ol' Spider Jerusalem is an outlier and should not have been counted too much an artifact of the era he was written in to hold any appeal.
and i think you're right - not necessarily person of interest, but between shows like newsroom, mr. robot, leverage - the situational position of something like transmet is more prevalent than ever, but the moral position is more difficult to translate to anywhere at all than ever
especially because transmet's protagonist is a journalist, fighting the bushes and trumps of the world. and we've seen how much that kind of man's efforts are worth now.
Downside: I probably am going to be rereading it until I no longer hold any affection for it, given the 15-20 page requirement.
an outlier and should not have been countedtoo much an artifact of the era he was written in to hold any appeal.