RPM: Revelations Per Minute - Tank Girl: Retanked
It is with ecstatic whoops that i had the pleasure of opening an unassuming envelope this morning and pulling out a copy of Tank Girl One, a repackaged version of the collected Tank Girl series, drawn by Jamie Hewlett (now most famous as the artistic half of Gorillaz and designer of Monkey: Journey To The West) and written by Alan Martin.
Now being re-released in five digestable nuggets, the books celebrate the 20th anniversary of the very first Tank Girl strip in the sadly defunct Deadline comic. If you saw the terrible movie, don't let it taint your view... the comic is pure gold.
For those who don't know, Tank Girl was a bounty hunting, gun-totting lunatic who drove a tank, shaved her hair, often got naked, and spent her time screaching round the desert with her Koala pal and Kangaroo boyfriend (Booga) getting in and out of scrapes.
The movie made Tank Girl world famous. She even had her own shoe line in a high street footwear chain.
The books, though, celebrate the character's time on paper. To beef them up for collectors who still have the originals, there's previously unseen artwork in them, new intros from the creators and even a new novel: Tank Girl - Visions of Booga, with current artist Rufus Dayglo.
See/buy them all at www.tank-girl.com.
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Published: Tue, 24 March, 2009
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