I started reading this a decade ago and picked it back up again recently. It's way more gross then I remember but outside of stuff like a cat pissing on a phone I'm enjoying it. What are your thought on the series?
>>154197313It's kinda shitty and not really as funny or smart as I expected.
>>154197313Ellis getting cancelled ultimately saves us from getting a raped adaptation.Though it's funny if you believe the rumor that the real reason the comic never got adapted was due to Ellis demanding point blank that any adaption had to have Patrick Stewart as Spider and Stewart being creeped the fuck out by Ellis the one time they met to the point that he blocked him
stopped on issue 3seems like ellis' masturbatory fantasy>>154199950lol what
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>>154199950>Ellis demanding point blank that any adaption had to have Patrick Stewart as Spider and Stewart being creeped the fuck out by Ellis the one time they met to the point that he blocked himBased Stewart
>>154199950It's kind of bizarre that Stewart did end up portraying a drug abusing, scandle prone elderly reporter .
>>154200033Funnily enough if it was published today Ellis would probably be cancelled again for the Transients, who are essentially delusional trans-alien radicals. Whatever anyone thinks of Ellis (he is a bit of a prick but I don't think he deserved all the shit he got just for shagging groupies) Transmet did predict the future quite well.
>>154200135nahhe was a liberal fuck knuckle and worked on that shitty pajeetavaniahe deserved it
>>154200033>metro
>>154200135The Transients weren't portrayed as delusional because they wanted to be part alien, the ones we see are portrayed as dumb because they are following an obvious grifter into a stupid cult.
>>154197313It got some things correct and a lot wrong. It seemed interesting but reality is worse. I'd rather have a president like The Beast.
>>154200337Eh he does seem to think the movement is silly, but ultimately harmless, like a dumb fashion trend. Spider's whole bit at the end is calling out the people of the city for getting so worked up about something as minor as the transients when there is so much actually vile shit going on.
"I'm a milquetoast gen x liberal!"*rapes women*
>>154200248>pol
>>154200432dont think about your kids being raped, goy
>>154200629Woman: I'll let you fuck me if you give me industry connections and a job, Ellis.Ellis: Ok.Woman, when she sours on the deal: OI WAS RAPED, IN ME PROIME, BY ELLIS!
I used to story time it for my birthday when I lived alone and had no close friends. It blew my mind when I was 17, it's pretty cringey now. But the kind of cringe I think teens are more than allowed to enjoy.The fact that he got a coworker gang raped and it's played as a joke and she gets over it is pretty bad, even not knowing Ellis was offering jobs for blowjobs.
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>>154201446>when I lived alone and had no close friendsthis changed?
considering how things are going ,it was naive to consider what took down the smiler was him confessing on national tv how much he wanted to fuck shit up. Nowadays that's a slap on the wrist even if that
>>154203359I think people really underestimate how chronic corruption is and has been historically and how difficult it is to uproot.People didn't accept a lifestyle as peasants because they were stupid, they accepted it because the alternative was the threat of death or starvation and their alternatives were just as bad elsewhere.People care when they're being ruled by evil assholes, but do they care enough to risk their lives and livelihoods on it, especially when they have no guarantee that things will actually improve if they do?Every system eventually becomes as corrupt as it can get while sustaining its own existence, until it fails outright and is replaced.
>>154197313Mostly just depresses me that all the cool techno shit they have won't likely be around in my lifetime
>>154204304what the fuck are you talking about
>>154201422Not even that much. He never said he would get them jobs or careers, and the """accusers""" said as much. He was just a dick who pulled a pump and dump. Rude and shitty, but there are a lot of actual famous people who've done a lot fuckin' worse.
>>154204332are you serious?
>>154203359I mean, it's ultimately a piece of idealist fiction. It essentially ends with a happily ever after. The
>>154204349did I fucking stutter?
>>154204383>series full of technology we don't have in our world>slightly depressing that most if not all of that stuff won't be around in the next 40-50 yearsWhat was so hard to grasp? I was amazed you even had to ask.
Where's my jetpack? Where's my damn hover-car?
>>154197313I remember seeing some page of this where there are guys in big blue hazmat looking suits who were part of some religion that can't touch anything. But I cannot seem to find anything about them. This was quite a while ago now but was I hallucinating? Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
>>154205242Yeah it's in the arc where his credit and insurance gets cut off and he's being chased by the big fucked up police dog.
>>154197313It's kind of amazing how this series was considered god-tier at one point.
>>154197313In the first issue, doesn't he write an article so good that it stops a riot in its tracks? It feels like some loser writer's power fantasy. I dont know why people liked this.
Ellis came up with the concept of crossed before Garth did
>>154204394just what the fuck is that supposed to mean
>>154197313It's pretty funny in retrospect. It paints itself as being gritty, cynical, and pessimistic but the actual plot is hopelessly naive when you look at the real world. All it takes is one truth-telling journalist to write a series of snappy articles and it brings down multiple presidencies. The entire city, no the world, is hanging on the words of a newspaper columnist. Sure.I reread it recently and Spider is the least interesting part of the comic by far. In fact the City itself is the most interesting thing the comic has to offer. I like all the background details and little bits of worldbuilding.
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