Transmetropolitan Graffiti on the streets of NYC

Boing Boing reader Giant Eye, aka Matthew Borgatti, says, "Here's a sneak peek of something I'm working on for the Transmetropolitan Art Book. It's on the corner of W 26th st and 8th in Manhattan. If you live in the city you should come and see it before the installation gets graff'd over."

For those who aren't familiar: Transmetropolitan is a series of cyberpunk graphic novels written by Warren Ellis with art by Darick Robertson, published by DC Comics.

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Anonymous

Transmet was not very good. Read Stand on Zanzibar instead.
Anonymous

Nathan Fillion could play the beast. More geek cache, plus philip seymour hoffman isn’t large enough. I like ed norton as spider, though. good call. someone needs to contact whoever adopted that two faced cat and make this movie before it dies.
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/14/two-faced-kitty.html
- gman
  
  Too late.
  http://www.peoplepets.com/news/cats/kitten-born-with-two-faces-dies/1
  She didn’t have long, apparently.
Anonymous

Too bad this isn’t background for a Transmet movie!
- chip
  
  Starring Ed Norton as Spider, Tricia Helfer as Channon, Pauley Perrette as Yelena, Linda Fiorentino as Vita, Kevin Spacey as the Smiler, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the Beast.
  
  Somebody get Robert Rodriguez on this STAT!
  - EeyoreX
    
    Nah, Pauley Perrette is getting to old to play Yelena. IÂ´d say go with Crista Flanagan instead. Toss in Patton Oswald as Royce and Jeffrey Combs as Fred Christ, and you’d have enough geek appeal to make a word-of-mouth blockbuster.
gianteye

Agreed. Though, I’m hoping some people who come across it think that it’s viral advertising for an actual Transmet film.
flink

I would go with Johnny Depp.

He’s got the talent to play Spider.
Boondocker

Spider would kick in your tracheas then gun-rape your gasping mouths for talking about a Transmetropolitan movie.

Please, if there can be only one comic left unmolested by Hollywood, let it be this one.
- Halloween Jack
  
  Dude, please. Ellis couldn’t stop talking about Patrick Stewart’s interest in doing the movie, back in the day.
- Crashproof
  
  To be fair, Spider would do that anyway. It’s just a question of what setting he’d choose on the Bowel Disruptor.
TheMadLibrarian

From what I remember of the scuttlebutt, Patrick Stewart had been discussing playing Spider with Warren Ellis. Of course that was a decade ago… I’d still so go to see a Transmet movie!
Anonymous

None of the above should be playing Spider. Spider is essentially Hunter S Thompson, so Johnny Depp or Bill Murray should be playing him. You’re mad if you think otherwise.
floraldeoderant

Daniel Day Lewis for Spider?

(Patton Oswalt is a great choice for Royce).
Chrs

Now there’s some worthwhile art.