{"id":80549,"date":"2018-07-12T02:22:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T09:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/transmetropolitan-relevant-or-rose-colored-glasses"},"modified":"2018-07-12T02:22:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T09:22:24","slug":"transmetropolitan-relevant-or-rose-colored-glasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/transmetropolitan-relevant-or-rose-colored-glasses","title":{"rendered":"Transmetropolitan: Relevant or Rose-Colored Glasses?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/transmetropolitan-relevant-or-rose-colored-glasses.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a fantastic comic that holds up well as a story for a number of reasons. It\u2019s cyberpunk without the genre\u2019s trademark dinge: Robertson, Ramos, and colorist Nathan Eyring deserve a lot of credit for making a future packed with information overload, but not obscured by smog or gloom or perpetual rain. It\u2019s also genuinely funny. Angry Warren Ellis is gifted at turning the combination of rage, foul language, and body parts into something beautiful. It\u2019s also appropriately cynical, and I think this is where a lot of the comparisons to the present day come from.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Holy mother of God, Transmet is over 20 years old. But is it still sharp commentary, or a relic of its time?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" typeof=\"foaf: Image\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/transmetropolitan-relevant-or-rose-colored-glasses2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/us\/books-comics\/transmetropolitan\/260488\/transmetropolitan-relevant-or-rose-colored-glasses\">http:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/us\/books-comics\/transmetropolitan\/2...ed-glasses<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a fantastic comic that holds up well as a story for a number of reasons. It\u2019s cyberpunk without the genre\u2019s trademark dinge: Robertson, Ramos, and colorist Nathan Eyring deserve a lot of credit for making a future packed with information overload, but not obscured by smog or gloom or perpetual rain. It\u2019s also genuinely [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1507,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}