#4 Tank Girl Forever

#4 Tank Girl Forever

If you've never read Tank Girl before then what have you been doing with your life, created by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett (Gorrilaz) in 1988, Tank Girl has produced some absolutely mental stories, and was also one of the first comic book characters to get a live action film back in 1995. If you have been living under a rock for the last thirty years then Tank Girl  shouldn’t take a lot of explanation, it’s set in Australia, there’s a talking Kangaroo (Booga, Tank Girls other half) also a misogynistic drug taking koala (Camp Koala) and the rest of the main characters have their job titles in their names!

The team become actual super hero's for once, swearing and drug taking rough around the edges super heroes, but super heroes nonetheless. How they got these powers and where they’ll go after this four part story wasn’t explained, but that’s nothing new for Tank Girl, and I think that’s the most important thing for reading Tank Girl don’t question, just roll with it.

Tank Girl has always been good but in recent years it's been on fire, and this is no exception, an entertaining story that I couldn’t put down, nothing too heavy just easy reading, with a guest appearance from deceased Rolling Stone Brian Jones?! A massive but odd highlight of this release was the old paper that it was printed on that gave the artwork a sepia filter, but also smelled amazing (sorry that is odd), it reminded me of The Beano in the 90’s. If you are new to comics and Tank Girl I would recommend starting with any of the new stories for the last five years and then go back to the older stories, which are being rereleased regularly in colour.

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