Transmetropolitan is a comic or graphic novel written by Warren Ellis. It features Spider Jerusalem, a journalist, who go on adventures in the city that is filled with anticipated future technology issues such as genetic engineering and robots. Essentially, the story is about singularity that has gone wild and Spider's attempt to battle those who have abused the development of technology.
Total singularity, when achieved, will cause mankind to "transcend our crude, earthly bodies entirely and become machine-based, virtually immortal"(Tucker, 2006). It seems that the city Transmetropolitan is very close to achieving singularity, though it is depicted in an abhorrent manner.
One example of the negative progression of singularity that persists in Transmetropolitan is the gene-splicing that is event in the group called the Transients. These individuals have used or possibly abused genetic engineering to make themselves half human and half alien. Some writers, like Ray Kurzweil, envision a utopia in regards to genetic engineering while Ellis appears to envision dystopia. Kurzweil hypothesizes that humans will be able to eradicate 99% of diseases with genetic engineering and nanomedicine and thus extend life expectancy to 1,000 years old (Kurzweil, 2006). Ellis may distrust genetic engineering since the Transients are portrayed as the enemies and opponents to the protagonist Spider.