Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street Review

Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street by Warren Ellis collects the first three issues of the DC Vertigo title.
Transmetropolitan is the story of journalist Spider Jerusalem in the near-future of "The City," a pseudo NYC/London/other large cities. As a journalist Spider is called back into the city to complete previously promised work. He comes down out of the mountain and causes large amounts of violence and takes a lot of drugs and becomes the voice of the marginalized and downtrodden. He also gets beat up a lot. And takes a lot of drugs.
Spider Jerusalem is Warren Ellis' sci-fi version of Hunter S. Thompson, and the later volumes and issues even follow a presidential campaign, similar to Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail.

Transmetropolitan is my favorite comic series. All issues are collected in graphic novel form. If you like science fiction, journalism, Hunter S. Thompson, drugs, violence, drugs and two-headed cats, then this comic is for you.