History Headscratchers / Transmetropolitan

*** Oh, my! Such nice people we have here! Reading Transmet! Still, pedophilia is literally [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil A Special Kind Of Evil]]. The most powerful sexual experiences are complex and interactive, otherwise the invention of vibrators(and later battery-operated vaginas) would have rendered the human race extinct(there goes the holodeck argument). Rape is not about sexual completion, but pain and domination. By definition, you can't rape the willing, and there are entirely legitimate markets for S & M and so on. There is always the (slight) possibility that an adult victim is TooKinkyToTorture. A child is incapable of giving informed consent, so by definition sexual exploitation of a child is rape. It is the rape experience turned UpToEleven. It's literally ForTheEvulz. Read some Creator/AndrewVachss. As long as there are human monsters in the world, there will be a market for kiddy porn. And the only solution is simple - haul the chicken hawk out and shoot h/ir in the head.

** [[TheSimpsons What did you just see, Lisa?]] Obviously he ''has'' had such alterations done since, you know, his new look is right in front of your eyes.

** Spider ''does'' have the body of a 25-year-old tennis pro, but he's supposed to be older than that. Notice how his jawline is softer than you would expect someone with those abs. In certain panels he appears to have a double-chin. If he hold himself the right (or wrong, or if the artist just wants to make a joke) way his abs easily become a paunch. He's nearing middle-age, but his lack of body fat makes him look younger.

*** Are you the same person as the pimp above?
*** Up until the wife and kid part I though he was my friend who hates this site and was confused...

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** Spider ''does'' have the body of a 25-year-old tennis pro, but he's supposed to be older than that. Notice how his jawline is softer than you would expect someone with those abs. In certain panels he appears to have a double-chin. He's nearing middle-age, but his lack of body fat makes him look younger.

*** [[{{Futurama}} Remember that talk we had, about always ending your stories one sentence earlier?]]

* Dear Warren: "one percent"? [[TheUntwist Fuck you.]]
** I agree, but there are two things... one, the doctor said that one percent get ''no worse''... and Spider clearly does. However, two... in the Futuresight Reservation, the weird guy says something like "We think we licked that problem, anyway." So one of the two doses of Information Pollen may well have not been as hard on the system... increasing the chances substantially. (And hey, maybe the Futuresight Reservation helped him out after he started getting sick!)
** After that reveal, I took it to mean that Spider somehow faked getting worse (there's gotta be some way to fake nosebleeds using nanomachines, and the rest is just acting), in preparation for a forced retirement after toppling the Smiler. He hated working in the City after all, and what better way to do it than fake a debilitating illness. It's the perfect way to end the story, with Spider fucking with everyone, and finally getting them to leave him alone (mostly). It's possible that the Reservation didn't cure the illness but was able to curb the degeneration, and with Spider's ego, of course he'd think he was special enough to be in the one percent group.
** Given that the i-pollen was produced by futurist technologist friends of Spider, it's not unreasonable to think that they'd at least be working on a cure - there is a substantial time skip between the second last and last issues, after all.

*** Oh, my! Such nice people we have here! Reading Transmet! Still, pedophilia is literally [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil A Special Kind Of Evil]]. The most powerful sexual experiences are complex and interactive, otherwise the invention of vibrators(and later battery-operated vaginas) would have rendered the human race extinct(there goes the holodeck argument). Rape is not about sexual completion, but pain and domination. By definition, you can't rape the willing, and there are entirely legitimate markets for S & M and so on. There is always the (slight) possibility that an adult victim is TooKinkyToTorture. A child is incapable of giving informed consent, so by definition sexual exploitation of a child is rape. It is the rape experience turned UpToEleven. It's literally ForTheEvulz. Read some AndrewVachss. As long as there are human monsters in the world, there will be a market for kiddy porn. And the only solution is simple - haul the chicken hawk out and shoot h/ir in the head.

*** Are you the same person as the pimp above?

** But they don't have replicator technology. They can't create matter from energy. They can rearrange matter in any number of ways, but without raw materials to work with, there's not much to do. Pulling together carbon, hydrogen and oxygen from the air to form cellulose, and shape that cellulose into a flower might not be very difficult, but gathering up enough iron to make a car in the same way is probably a fair bit dicier.

**** That bit is there, in ThisTroper's view, to drive home the point that alterations are done readily enough that they ''don't'' warrant comment. Altering your body in ''Transmet'' is akin to changing your clothes in the modern world.

** Being high does not preclude one from being a productive member of society, ThisTroper is pretty much perma-stoned and still manages to hold down a job, run a D&D campaign, exercise regularly AND take care of a wife and child

** I'm just at issue 12, but, for now, I've seen more male/male kisses in the background rather than male/female. Of course, it isn't on par with onscreen sex, but it must count for something.

* How exactly do stark economical divisions continue to exist, when you have technology on the level of the foglets, who can ''turn air into flowers'', apparently with negligible energy expenditure. To put it in other words, they have replicator technology, so why hasn't the economy gone the StarTrek way?

** Creator preference is an easy answer. Trying to not get smacked down by censors harder than necessary is another. At the moment, it's one of the (sad or happy, depending on personal preference) facts of life that heterosexual encounters are considered more acceptable to depict than others, and there's enough sex of various kinds to make an old sailor blush in that comic as it is. As for the clouds, they have presumably kept their gender identities after changing bodies.