Transmetropolitan #33

Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, and Rodney Ramos's "Dancing in the Here and Now" gets a striking cover courtesy of Jaime Hernandez, who captures a wonderfully off-kilter tableau: a bald, tattooed Spider Jerusalem sprawled on the ground clutching a bottle while two women — one in a bold blue coat gesturing expressively, the other in black with a yellow bag — stand over him with varying degrees of exasperation. It's a quietly funny, very human moment that perfectly suits Transmetropolitan's blend of chaos and character. Vertigo's mature-readers sci-fi satire was firing on all cylinders in 2000, and this issue looks like no exception.