Don't get me wrong, Transmetropolitan reeks of truth and I am quite in awe that what Ellis "revealed" more than a decade ago still applies nowadays, well in fact, nothing has really ever changed. The city is ugly, the poor being oppressed and the governement doesn't care. 
 But from a narrative point of view, Transmetropolitan has dragged me for quite some time. Save for some action scenes, hasn't there been anything new, something that wasn't established in the previous volumes? 
 Spider and his filthy assistants are on the run, yeah we know that. He now works for the Hole, so why the meeting? Hasn't it been established before that Spider and The Smiler are battling each other. Most of the pages are narratives about the dank secrets of the city: scum here, crap that, crazy everywhere, I will kill Spider Jerusalem thing. Same old, same old stuff. 
 I hope that the eight volume will throttle up the story and not anymore meander, without focus and without a solid plot.