Transmetropolitan #48

Spider Jerusalem sits slumped against a grimy wall wearing a paper "Journalist" dunce cap, surrounded by scattered pills, cigarettes, an envelope, handwritten notes, and a bottle of Booze Hound Liquors — a quietly devastating image that captures the series' raw, unfiltered energy. J. G. Jones delivers a cover full of weary texture for this October 2001 issue, with the graffiti-scrawled backdrop and the detritus of Spider's existence painting a picture that feels both darkly funny and genuinely unsettling. With Warren Ellis writing and Darick Robertson on interior art, Transmetropolitan #48 — "Running Out" — continues one of Vertigo's most ferociously alive series.