Transmetropolitan Gouge Away

Spider Jerusalem is hot on the trail of the horrifying truth behind the newly elected President's campaign. This volume collects issues #31-36.

Spider Jerusalem's journalistic crusade continues apace. Having removed one President from office, only to make an instant mortal enemy of the new incumbent, Spider continues to investigate the death of his friend, campaign director Vita Severn. With the help of his filthy assistants, Spider discovers that the truth leads right to the top - and that powerful enemies, while a mark of one's own success, can be lethally dangerous...but then again, so can a bowel disruptor - at 'Fatal Intestinal Maelstrom' setting.

It's the mind and typewriter of Spider Jerusalem versus the media, the money and the White House--and it all comes tumbling down for one of them. Right here, the rules are changed, the arena is altered, and the stakes are everything, launching us into the high-octane Year Four. "Gouge Away" part the end.

There's only one thing worse than a drunken, drug-abusing and half-mad journalist--and that's a drunken drug-abusing half-mad journalist who knows how to do his job and is out to destroy your life. This is Spider Jerusalem on the offensive: angry and blisteringly smart, one step ahead of the White House spin doctors, going all out to eviscerate the President himself. "Gouge Away" part 2.

Comics and the punk movement are inextricably linked--each has a foundational do-it-yourself ethos and a nonconformist spirit defiant of authority. This collection of new essays provides for the first time a thorough analysis of the intersections between comics and punk. The contributors expand the discussion beyond the familiar U.S. and UK scenes to include the influence punk has had on comics produced in other countries, such as Spain and Turkey.

Part 1 of "Gouge Away." And it all goes to hell, just like this: Spider Jerusalem's broadsides against the Smiler and the Party in Government intensify. He starts to sail very close to the edge; the forces of the monoculture gather themselves; and we begin to sense it's all going to end in tears. From here, everything changes.