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Few work of fiction capture the true essence of gonzo as it was pioneered by Hunter S. Thompson quite like theVertigo ComicsseriesTransmetropolitanby Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson . The series follow a diary keeper named Spider Jerusalem who is a pretty absolved Hunter S. Thompson analogue . Jerusalem lives in The City where he write a pillar for the newspaper The Word that ’s title “ I detest It Here ” . The newspaper column focalise on his perception of advanced day life sentence as it exists in this futurist , transhumanist , cyberpunk landscape .
Along with being a gonzo diary keeper with a point of view that captivates readers , Spider Jerusalem is similar to Hunter S. Thompsonin one other agency : drug intake . In this next mankind , there is no shortage of increasingly uncanny drug Spider can get his manus on , and the futurist health care assure that he likely wo n’t die of any sort of drug overdose , stand for he and those around him can really push their body and minds to the limit . While there are certainly far more than just two handfuls of drugs to choose from , here are just10 of the barbarian fictional drugs fromTransmetropolitan !
From literary digit to wraith detectives , Vertigo has plenty of reference fabric to pick out from . But would they make for good TV ?
10Alter Gum Causes Temporary Dissociative Identity Disorder
Transmetropolitan: Tales of Human Waste
Transmetropolitanwas more than just a 60 issue comic series , but also had two lifelike novels that allow fan to read Spider Jerusalem ’s columns just as someone would in - world ( with the musical accompaniment of Darick Robertson ’s outstanding artwork , of form ) . Those graphic novel were titledI Hate It HereandFilth of the City , severally , and they - along with some otherTransmetropolitanspecials - were collected inTales of Human Waste . Within this heroic poem of journalistic depravity , Spider Jerusalem recount a time when he unintentionally took Alter Gum , suppose it was just even gum tree that could help him bring down down on his smoke .
ostensibly , no one tell Spider that Alter Gum was a serious drug that give users temporary dissociative identity disorderliness , and he found that out by lose his nous , running around The City whole au naturel while wielding a sword .
9Dead Celebrities Is Exactly What It Sounds Like
Vertigo: Winter’s Edge#2 - “Edgy Winter: A Transmetropolitan Story”
Dead Celebrities is n’t a drug that Spider Jerusalem indulges in himself ( at least , not in this issue ) , but is one he sees other people doing on television during a quiet winter nighttime inside his flat . Apparently , every winter , a new chemical group of teenagersdigs up the corpse of long - dead celebrities , displume off and chop up pieces of their bodies , and ingest them .
Evidently , there are “ rich deposits of previous drugs and crystallized epinephrine ” in these corpses , and they have the capability to give the great unwashed a high that ’s deserving desecrating the consistence of a famous person .
8Disconekt Is A Prescription Drug Meant To Numb The Senses
Transmetropolitan#38
Another ‘ As - view - On - TV ’ drug , Disconekt , is n’t taken by Spider on - panel , but is rather being advertised on TV . The television receiver spot reveals that Disconekt is a prescription drug that ’s mean to numb the sens and make life in The City more passable for the 1000000 of miserable citizens barely make it through the day . Not only that , but it ’s advertize as a way to sedate the collective angriness of those citizens , and will keep people ’s heads from bursting with rage .
Transmetropolitanis boundary line totalitarian , andDisconekt is less of a recreational drug derived from the advanced technology of the era , and more of a fashion to control the massesby the current political party in power ( champion by the President who Jerusalem nickname ‘ the Smiler ’ , and who is a main antagonist throughout the serial ) .
7Freak Green Makes Children Fight Their Pets For A Dose
Freak Green - also ascertain during a television news report - is grant to children by their parents to make them tougher and more equipped to survive in the cruel creation in which this series accept spot . In an consultation , a mother of a youngster addicted to Freak Green boasts that her Word ‘ contend the puppy for his morning locating ’ and that it has given him impressive grip persuasiveness .
Not only is this drug apparently meant to strengthen nipper at a young age ( as the fry in the newsworthiness report looked not even six months old ) , butFreak Green also change by reversal their skin green .
6Infopollen Gives One Psychedelic Hallucinations
Transmetropolitan#9
While chatter an field of The City known as ‘ the Reservations ’ where humans opt to live in different clip stop throughout story in rules of order to maintain the culture of retiring refinement , Spider Jerusalem is invited to also experience a destiny of the Reservations called the Farsight Community . This was n’t a survive monument to the past times , but rather a niche of a possible future tense , one of ripe cybernetic enhancements ( more so than the average amount found in The City ) , and where drug that were banned in The City can be experienced freely - admit and peculiarly Infopollen .
Jerusalem was spray in the face with Infopollenthe consequence he walked into the Farsight Community , and he have trippy visions of an nonobjective future , an experiencehe described as being akin to “ washing down a pail of mezcal with a vatful of absinthe ” .
5Intelligence Enhancers Get Spider Jerusalem Back In The Journalism Game
Transmetropolitan#1
In the very first issue of the serial , when Spider Jerusalem go back into The City to start writing for The Word once again , he ’s more than a little hoary after live in the mountains for five years in complete solitude . So , in an effort to hit the flat coat running , he approaches a local drug drug dealer and tells him he necessitate the good Intelligence Enhancers on the market .
It seems‘Intelligence Enhancers ’ is more of a narcotic classification than the existent name of a specific drug , though the effects of it talk for itself .
4Liquid Holy Thoughts Keeps The ‘Sinful’ Mind ‘Clean’
Transmetropolitan#6
When Spider Jerusalem go to a ‘ religion Convention ’ to pass over the vast numeral of fresh religions that have been popping - up latterly , he find out hoi polloi doing some by all odds rummy practices in the name of their religious opinion . However , one of the weirdest sight had to be the mortal who was usingLiquid Holy Thoughts in an attempt to wash away any impure thoughtsby way of mind - altering fluid .
If the idea of what this drug does to the human nous is n’t horrific enough , the software program of said drug certainly is , as it ’s a pipe ofgreen liquid that ’s pumped directly into the brainthrough a surgically - made hole in the os frontale .
3Mechanics Merges The Human Mind With Artificial Intelligence, & Reshapes The Body
Transmetropolitan#26
During a column that ’s give to the citizens of The City themselves , Spider Jerusalem takes a rich dive into the life of the ‘ New Scum ’ ( a idiomatic expression coin by the Smiler to illustrate his disdain for the people he ’s suppose to defend ) . One such person is someone who is on his direction to becoming addict to a drug scream Mechanics . This drug temporarily merges one ’s mind with their personal AI , and during the continuance of the drug ’s effect , the AI makes changes to the someone ’s DNA . Once the high wears off , a formerly regular human now hasa piece of their flesh replaced with techno - constituent matter .
With each dose , a person literally lose a little bit of their own humankind at a time , slowly becoming a drug - addicted robot that only hold up for the promise of the next fix .
2RPG Drugs Take Users To Hallucinogenic Fantasy Worlds
The only drug inTransmetropolitanto make Spider Jerusalem want to swear off all narcoticscompletely . RPG Drugs are as they voice : they ship substance abuser to a fantasy world where they literally roleplay as a fictional fictitious character . When Spider get it , he became a parody of Superman , thoroughgoing with the life the original Superman led as his alter ego , Clark Kent .
Spider hated being a soft - mannered journalist and dainty - two - horseshoe superhero so much that he wanted to give up taking drugs completely - that ’s how off - put he was by his RPG - induced delusion .
1Space/Space Dust Slows Down One’s Perception Of Time
Transmetropolitan#52 &Transmetropolitan: Tales of Human Waste
Transmetropolitan#52 opens with a womanhood who the Smiler is prove to have murdered due to the fact that she used to be a sexual urge prole who serviced him , and he ’s trying to rid of any and all skeletons in his closet . These day , she ’s a drug dealer who sells Space and Space Dust ( which is a heightened rendering of Space apparently the same path ‘ crack ’ is to ‘ cocaine’).The drug is primarily fume , give way the user a euphoric senior high school that slows down their percept of time , and is also one of the principal ‘ social drug ’ of the era .
However , that ’s not Spider Jerusalem ’s take on the drug , as his description of the slow down - down fourth dimension force is hellish and null . Spider describes it as something that “ traps you in an airport waiting lounge of the judgment and does n’t allow you go for approximately two hundred years ” . It seems this particular drug was too much for even Spider Jerusalem , mean an mediocre soul withinVertigo Comics’Transmetropolitanwould be wise to fend off it .
