"Originally published in single magazine form as Transmetropolitan 31-36"--Title page verso.

"Suggested for mature readers"--cover.

"There's no faster path to paranoia and delusion than the red carpet of celebrity, and in the City no one is more famous than mega-popular attack journalist Spider Jerusalem. Nearly paralyzed by his own media omnipresence, Jerusalem has been reduced to a populist caricature, his muckraking teeth blunted by the sticky-sweet syrup of adulation. Luckily, he still has his enemies to keep him on his toes--even through a narcotized fog, nothing concentrates the mind like a high probability of imminent assassination." -- cover.