Spider Jerusalem - Appearances and Homages Outside of Transmetropolitan

Appearances and Homages Outside of Transmetropolitan

• One of Ellis' other titles, Planetary, features a character in its seventh issue named Jack Carter, who is a (very) thinly-veiled pastiche of John Constantine, being essentially identical in appearance, role, abilities and diction. The issue is essentially a retrospective commentary on the genre of grim, British-penned comics of the anti-Thatcherite 1980s milieu, of which the Carter character is positioned as the apotheosis. Having faked his own death, Carter reappears in a dramatically altered form with a shaved head and long black coat which he later opens to reveal a bare chest featuring identical tattoos to Spider Jerusalem. Lacking only the spider tattoo on the head and the trademark shades, this former Constantine-cipher has become the spitting image of Jerusalem and departs with the words: "The Eighties are long over. Time to Move on. Time to be someone else."

• In an issue of Top Ten, he is in the background of an apartment occupied by Anarchists

• Spider makes a "cameo" appearance in issue #1 of The Boys, of which Darick Robertson is the main artist and co-creator. On page #10 of issue one ('The Name of the Game'), panel two, Spider can be seen in the crowd of onlookers. Be it intentional or not, he appears to be "pointed out" by the tail of the speech bubble in which A-Train, a superhero, is saying "I gotta get going". This also makes it look like it is Jerusalem himself and not A-Train, who is delivering that particular line.

• The name Spider Jerusalem, alongside James Bond, is referenced as an average fake person's name in Charles Stross' Accelerando.