To understand Trump, read Transmet

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HELP! THE PRESIDENTā€™S SHAT HIMSELF!

ā€¦Without a doubt my favorite line from that comic.

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Iā€™ve been thinking this for a while.

Trump is scarily close, not to the Beast (who was a fairly obvious Nixon/Thatcher hybrid), but to Bob Heller.

Parhaps we are living in the future after all.

If so, I hate it here.

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The original source material is a good 40-something years old.

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At one time Sir Patrick was going to do this and star as Spider. Sadly I think it will never happen, at least not with him in the lead.

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Came here to say that. The Smiler reminded me more of Obama/Clinton, but without redeeming values.

I thought the core takeaway was best summed up in Spiders PSA about voting.

http://comicsalliance.com/i-hate-it-here-transmetropolitan-and-the-election-season/

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Patrick Stewart is a fantastic actor and I know heā€™s a fan of the series, butā€¦ really? Iā€™m having a hard time picturing him as a futuristic, profane, abusive muckracking pill-popper modeled after a young(ish) HST. Is it just because Stewart is the first name anyone in Hollywood comes up with when the part calls for a bald guy?

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Iā€™m pretty sure he was going to produce it or he has a production company that he was producing it through. The role was one that he wanted.

While spider gets roughed up a few times in the books thereā€™s nothing about the role that demands a young actor. If you watch Blunt Talk you can see that Stewart is a very vital guy today and the project was being discussed like fifteen years or more ago.

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Ever seen that episode of ā€œExtrasā€ starring Stewart? Heā€™s got a range of roles that he can play. (Or would like to play)

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That wouldnā€™t make any difference; Patrick Stewart was just as old 15 years ago as he is today. I think heā€™d already quit on the ā€œagingā€ thing by the early 1980s. Probably a side effect of all that Spice.

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The American politician who most reminds me of The Smiler is John Edwards. Really liberal positions, fake smile, and fathered a child in an extramarital affair. That he had while his wife was dying of cancer. And was running for president.

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Not really Trumpesque, but somehow tangentially related, is Ken Wind from Elektra: Assassin.

Remember, itā€™s not wind like a watchā€¦ but wind, like the airā€¦

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OMG, I hadnā€™t made the connection between Thompsonā€™s Gonzoism and Trumpā€™sā€¦Trumpocity. Nice pick.

ā€œWhen the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.ā€
-HST

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(Spider was also based on Alan Moore, or at least his appearance was for the first few pages, before he shaves)

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I donā€™t get how Trumpā€™s related bankruptcies arenā€™t an issue in this election :confused:

When was the last time a campaign had this much fear and loathing?

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That would be worth it just for the amount of Happy Patrick Stewart pics it would produce for the internet to use. He would be having an absolute blast.

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