In the near future, gonzo journalist/cult author Spider Jerusalem lives fast and loose in The City—a chaotic melting pot of cultures, subcultures, lifeforms, and technologies. Mastermind writer Warren Ellis (THE AUTHORITY) delivers this sharp, manic, anything-goes extrapolation of urban life.

Now reacclimated to The City, Spider Jerusalem ventures into the dangerous Angels 8 district, home of the Transients—humans who have decided to become aliens through cosmetic surgery. But Spider's penetrating interview with the Transients' leader may get him a scoop he didn't bargain for.

In the self-contained "Another Cold Morning," Spider Jerusalem, outlaw journalist, walks with the Revivals—people who have come out from cryogenic freeze into a world they don't understand, clinging to life in a city that has forgotten them completely.

Part 1 of the 3-part "Freeze Me with Your Kiss," the climax to TRANSMETROPOLITAN's first year. The cryogenically frozen head of Spider's ex-wife is stolen, his newspaper receives a threat on his life, and a mentally unstable police dog swears revenge on him. And that's only the beginning...