| Title | : | Tank Girl: 21st Century Tank Girl |
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| ISBN | : | 1782766618 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781782766612 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 112 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 2014 |
Tank Girl: 21st Century Tank Girl Reviews
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Loud and proud craziness, just as TG should be. Loved the character as a kid and jumped at the chance to support the kickstarter for a chance to see some more. Would have loved the book to be a continuous story, even if it switched artists along the way, but I still enjoyed it. Art-wise it's awesome and beautiful for the most part, but one or two artists definitely wouldn't have been my choice. I get friends working together on a project, but honestly the visuals are just plain ugly in parts. Not going to ruin this for me though! TG army!
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YOUR MISSION
Should you chose to accept it
Is to freak out
To break out
To mutate
In as many ways as possible
In all of the directions
That the man
Would never expect
That the man
Could never conceive
Be inventive
Be creative
Improvise, reprise, disguise
Push the envelope
Pull the envelope
Dig the tunnel
Knock out the guards
Get out under the fence
Disperse in hundreds
Thousands
Millions
Across the country
Across the borders
Infiltrate, supplant, commander
Spread the love
And eradicate the fear. -
I was proud to have Kickstarted this book, and my name, Johnny Thief, is now immortalized in the pages. The book suffers from lack of Jaime, and also seems to be missing the nihilistic shadows that made it such an underground sensation in the wake of the Reagan administration. But having said that, long live Tank Girl!
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SO MUCH DISAPPOINT.
90% of the artwork was shite.
The story lines were shite.
The humor was shite.
It mostly read as horrible fan-fic of Tank Girl. -
This slim oversized hardcover features a mix of short comic tales, prose, one-pagers, etc. It's really kind of a mixed bag. The stories that are on are as good as any from Tank Girl's heyday, but some just didn't work for me, lacking the manic punk feel of the classic Martin-Hewlett stories.
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I honestly never thought I'd love a version of tank girl more than the original but martin has grown into even more of a page turning writer and the new art style is very enjoyable.
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This was my first time reading Tank Girl. It was included in a Humble Bundle and I heard this volume was a good place to start. This comic is vulgar, immature, and disgusting. Not really my thing, but it can be fun to just let the absurdity wash over you.
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I love Tank Girl. I really do. The collection of 21st Century Tank Girl, though....is chaotic. There's a horde of artists that worked on this volume, and there are certain stories I just cannot stand the art in. There's weird Spoilsbury Toastboy effect to some of it, and it's just weird. She's still the same bad-ass butt-whooping character she's always been, but it just isn't the same. Granted, I'm going to keep reading them if they keep writing them, but it was a bit of a bummer.
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Martin has written some pretty sharp stories for this volume, and I'm always a fan of Tank Girl. I had to drop a star because some of the art is just abysmal, especially when compared to Jamie Hewlett's work within the book.
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This is an odd book. Odd, not funny, at least not to me. It might be funny if you are of an age where you think swearing is inherently funny, along with mentions of ���evil-smelling farts’ and ‘dark, creepy, unnatural shits’. It is odd because there are a few comic stories done in the usual style, with panels and dialogue balloons but these are mixed with text stories and splash pages with pictures of Tank Girl and the rest of the cast, Booga, Barney and Jet Girl. There are far too many of these splash pages. The text that accompanies the bad pictures is not worth reading. A sample:
How fucking brilliant am I?
I pluck clouds from the sky
When I sleep I can fly
When it’s breakfast I fry
How fucking brilliant am I?
As I like good comics I was hoping the stories might be better. They are but not much. In the first one, ‘Tank Girl’ goes to a mining asteroid to steal the valuable fuel ore she needs to power her tank in an upcoming race against an evil crime lord. In the second, she gets involved in a plot to steal God’s underpants, an Indiana Jones style relic in a museum. There are multiple cultural references to television shows, films and some minor British celebrities, which will baffle any U.S. audience. I confess I stopped reading after that.
To be fair, this sort of off-the-wall black humour is par for the course in certain ‘2000AD’ strips, along with graphic violence and a generally anarchic political attitude. Done well, it can be entertaining but this is not done very well. To be even fairer, one of the great redeeming features of even a badly scripted comic for me is the art. The stories at least had a plot and made sense and I might have read more if the pictures were pleasing to the eye but I didn’t like the art here. Comic artists have various classic influences nowadays: Jack Kirby, Will Eisner, John Buscema, Neal Adams and so on. The influence here seems to be a five-year-old boy trying to do Picasso. The resulting doodles may impress intellectuals but give little pleasure to someone reared on the aforementioned pencillers of American super-hero adventures.
Physically, this book is well packaged with a hardback cover and fine, glossy paper. It seems odd that such quality production has been used on such dire material but that’s publishing. At this time of year, all sorts of stuff appears in the bookshops from celebrity memoirs to joke books by current comedians. Someone must buy it. Presumably, someone will want this as well but I really don’t recommend it to anyone over the age of twelve and the bad language makes it unsuitable for anyone younger than that. However, teen-agers have been buying stuff deemed inappropriate by old fogeys since Elvis started releasing records. My parents hated ‘Monty Python’ and I don’t like ‘Tank Girl’. If you do, then go ahead and buy it and when you’re an old fogey, like me, something else will come along and your kids will love it and you will hate it. Time marches on.
Eamonn Murphy
This review first appeared at
https://www.sfcrowsnest.info/ -
Mixed feelings on this one. On the one hand, it's interesting to see other creators' appreciating and using Tank Girl to tell new stories. On the other hand, however, I'd rather see more Hewlett and Martin works than some of these stories. My favorites are: "The Freaked Out Fucked Up Multi-Coloured Psychedelic Banana-Flavored Driving Machine", "Journey to the Centre of the Tank", "The Runny Man", and "Viva Tank Girl!". I also enjoyed the bonus bumper stickers, colouring sketch, and extremely hot sketch of Tank Girl, Barney, and Jet Girl in the shower. ;) I wouldn't have included works like "Giraffe" or especially "The Name of Tank Girl" though because I felt disoriented encountering such long prose in the middle of what appeared to be a graphic story collection. It is interesting content, but the small type across multiple pages really makes it feel like a slog so close to the end of the book.
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This was a lot of fun. Admittedly, some of the art (or most) was...not very easy on the eyes (if not downright offensive to the word "art" lol...) but I feel like that was kind of the point. It was meant to be gritty and disproportionate and as fugly as shit smeared on a hobo - it was kind of an anti-professional, screw-around anthology that made me cheese, if not laugh, throughout. I honestly can't remember reading any other TG stuff so I can't speak for fans of the series, but this mockery of cunning creativity definitely made me want to read more, if, for nothing else, just to give my brain a break from clever wordplay and zone out on "dick and twat" jokes.
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More vulgar than peurile, the Tank Girl series is important for its relentless exploration of what is beautiful, what is acceptable, what is freedom, especially when considering the so-called "male gaze". Ah, what bored students of Art History can do...I thought the most memorable bits were the times TG is obviously crushing on a girl and even wants her mom to like her crush. I hadn't heard of TG til one day in 2019 I had the TV on and the movie was playing TG. Late to the party.
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This is not nearly as bad as other reviews would make you think. There are some obvious art issues where it is impossible to tell the characters apart or frankly how to tell anything apart from anything else on the page.
But most of the stories are good. There is the classic humor. I was entertained. -
This isn't a serious review. But what the Hemsworth, who cares? I don't. :)
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The problem with being lawful good is that it makes me uncomfortable reading stories about chaotic neutral-at-best characters...
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Not a great volume.
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I liked the anarchy in the first volume, but unfortunately, they have not re-captured the magic those early strips have.
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Issue #1: Read 07/17/15 5 stars
Issue #2: Read 07/17/15 5 stars
Issue #3: Read 09/18/15 5 stars -
3.5 stars.
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Lost the spirit of the originals, though I liked the art styles a lot.
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Well that was disappointing
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Very interesting collection of stories featuring Tank Girl and Booga I particular enjoyed the ones with Jim Mahfood artist.
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She's my 21st century heroine
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There are about ten pages of really excellent, notable, interesting art in this book, and about fifteen jokes that made me laugh. Otherwise, the stories aren't great. The occasional nude-ish pinup feels like sleazy fanservice in a book I wish were actually feminist. Most of the humour in the book is either like something from a Mad Magazine, which is good if you're twelve (except ... remember the pinups), or Dad Humour. And I may be a dad, but I didn't find most of it funny. It felt like a book for people who were teenagers in the nineties, but haven't grown up. Too bad. I really wanted to like it.
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The different art styles where the best thing about it, especially 'Steafano Enchilada's' strips they really made you have to focus on what you where reading. The hidden oscar on the side cracked me up.
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the artwork is so bad in some of the issues that I couldn't get over it. it looks like a fifth grade student drew some of this up. other issues were quite good but for the price I paid it's definitely a 1 star
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Excellent stories from Martin. Great artwork from Hewlett, Parson, and Knowles. Alright artwork from Bond and Edwards.... and then appallingly bad artwork from the rest.
If the first 3 artists I mentioned, or even with Bond, were the only artists on the book it could have been 5 stars.
