Absolute Transmetropolitan #1

Darick Robertson's biting, neon-soaked future gets the oversized Absolute treatment with this 2015 DC edition, and Geof Darrow's cover makes an immediate case for the upgrade. Drawn from a vertiginous bird's-eye angle, a bald, cigarette-smoking journalist in dark clothes hunches over a laptop atop a ledge, his spider tattoo and tinted goggles unmistakable against a canyon of blazing neon signs, flickering billboards, and chaotic city streets far below. Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, and their collaborators laid the groundwork for a story — "The Summer of the Year" — that clearly thrives on the tension between one sharp-eyed observer and the overwhelming spectacle of a city that never stops shouting.