10 Best Single Issue Comics Stories You Might Not Have Read

Warren Ellis often refers to his magnum opus Transmetropolitan as "Long-form Science-Fiction". As with most of his work, the book reads better in the trade than it does as single issues. However, there are still a few one-and-done diamonds to be found within its pages.

The book is about a Hunter S. Thompson style journalist called Spider Jerusalem, taking on the corrupt political system of a cyberpunk dystopia fever dream world. However, there are times when Ellis slows down and stops to talk about the real people who inhabit his world, usually in the form of a column written by Jerusalem aptly titled "I hate it here".

In one such piece, the writer(s) discuss the plight of a cryogenically frozen woman being brought back to life. Instead of a teary reunion with loved ones and a cure for whatever illness drove her into cryogenic stasis in the first place, she finds a world she scarcely understands.

The people she once knew are all dead; she has no money, no place to call home and no sense of this new time. She is defrosted and then thrown out onto the streets to live with the broken huddled masses.