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28th September 2021

Question with 16 notes

Anonymous asked:

I want at least a somewhat more serious take on Transmetropolitan, 90s culture is supposed to be your bag.

Well, that kinda was the take. The plot points were ‘90s contemporary future themed enough – that was the decade where with the Fear and Loathing movie we rediscovered Hunter S. Thompson as a hero – but the themes themselves weren’t particularly '90s. What was The Smiler trying to do that Spider was trying to thwart? Did it have anything interesting to say about neoliberalism, or Clintonian realignment, or anything?

Tagged: transmetropolitan

  1. luckysaintofnuno reblogged this from kontextmaschine
  2. theresponseblog reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    I feel like it was trying to comment on the Promise Of The Nineties in the same way that FLLV commented on the Promise...
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  4. armored-bears1 said: not that Transmetropolitan is interesting by any stretch, but it’s absolutely of its time
  5. armored-bears1 said: do you think that The Smiler isn’t a representation of Bill “played sax on Arsenio and used prison labor in the Governor’s Mansion” Clinton
  6. kontextmaschine posted this
    I want at least a somewhat more serious take on Transmetropolitan, 90s culture is supposed to be your bag.