Tank Girl 3 (Tank Girl, #3) by Alan C. Martin

Tank Girl 3 (Tank Girl, #3) Reviews

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  Gustavo

  Finalmente el tercero de los libros clásicos de Tank Girl. Al fin Martin y Hewlett abandonaron las drogas psicodélicas para traernos de vuelta historias de violencia y tanques como corresponde. El arte de Hewlett sigue siendo genial, y también hay otros dibujantes en unas historias con Martin que están bastante bien. Diría que es mejor que el segundo tomo pero el primero es definitivamente el mejor.
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  Ashley

  Always a fun time.
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  Keith

  "I wish I could think of something positive to say about the final days of Tank Girl, but I can't, so I'll just shut up," is how writer Alan Martin introduces this book, and after
  Tank Girl 2 being so bad it literally took me almost a decade to finish it, I did not have high hopes for Tank Girl 3. But Martin's newest TG comic,
  Two Girls One Tank, is a direct sequel to one of the stories in this volume, and after looking that one up and declaring it 'not terrible,' I decided to finally, finally finish the original 90's Tank-trilogy.
  
  
  Tank Girl 1 is one of my favorite comics of all time, and while TG3 doesn't totally hit that volume's high-highs, it's still pretty excellent. For one, most of the stories feature the tank, and you'd be surprised how important a tank is in a book called Tank Girl, but boy howdy indeed it is (note: TG2 had no tanks). The stories also feature crime, explosions, shocking deaths, breakneck car/tank chases through the outback, sex with kangaroos, and lots of boobs and wee-wees, so really the TG formula is fully in effect.
  
  If anything, the volume just suffers from an unevenness clearly tied to the restlessness of its creators -- half the stories are firing on all cylinders, but the other half features a mini-biopic about the Smiths, a vision quest that ends with a full-page photo of Gary Numan, some weird thing about skiing, and a Jet Girl story that just feels like a weak Moebius homage (which isn't the worst thing, but is still a bit of a headscratcher).
  
  Jamie Hewlett only draws about half the stories, and it's obvious that by this point, he has far outpaced Martin's lazy, profanity-laden scripts. Hewlett's work is too good, too crazy, and too intricate to really even fit in the panels -- it's so detail-laden it almost doesn't work, like an hourlong guitar solo over some out-of-tune power chords.
  
  But the stories in this volume are possibly the longest of the entire series, and they're funny and occasionally even have something approaching a narrative arc. So yeah, in general it's good stuff, even if things don't gel quite as well as the earliest stories from TG1.
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  D.M.

  With this third volume of the 'remastered' Tank Girl collections, we see the end of Alan Martin's (questionable) authourship. Strangely, though, it is also here where Martin's hand is shown as most evident, accompanied by guest artists Philip Bond and Glyn Dillon in place of the usual finery of Jamie Hewlett. Both Bond and Dillon acquit themselves well, the former putting in at least four stories while Dillon only offers one (and that of Tank Girl's occasional compadre Jet Girl), but neither are really replacements for the one-of-a-kind Hewlett style. Of course, Hewlett hands in his fair share of work, and it is typically frenetic and fun.
  The stories this time around are a return to earlier form, typically playing hard-and-fast with the rules of both physics and narrative while eschewing the acid-house mind-warpage evident in volume two. As Martin explains in his final introduction, these stories were happening at the peak of Tank Girl's popularity as best shown through the real-world appearance of the Tank Girl motion picture. Perhaps the return to madcap hijinks at this time is reflective of the creators' hopes to maintain the spirit at the core of the title, but it also seems to be injected with a heart that wasn't in the earliest stories. Naturally, that may just be the sign of both originators growing that little bit older and more mature.
  In addition to being Martin's end on the series, this is also where I will stop reading it. Though the remastered editions go on for another three books (and at least three more authours/illustrators), this is the last one in my hands. It's probably best I leave it here, anyway, as I'm not entirely certain I'd want to see where this character's taken after here. This original run on Tank Girl seems to have plumbed what little depth there ever was to her and her friends, and beyond this I can only imagine she'll be suffering what writers call 'character development.' As shallow as these stories tend to be, it's probably better than seeing them get deep.
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  Sheila Rooswitha

  The best episode of Tank Girl's series. The others are good as well, but nothing beats the appallingly superb drawings in this book. Jamie Hewlitt's style is a mixture of sensuality and ludicrousness, that genuinely discovers a new unique style which already been vastly recognized around the world. Yep right, Tank Girl is the origin of the famous Gorrillaz.
  
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  Dave

  This collections holds a more mature version of Tank Girl in the sense that she and the creators have grown up some and lost some of their youthful optimism. There is a darker and more deliberate approach to the story telling, which is a welcome improvement over the last compilation. She is more vicious and unforgiving as are, apparently, the creators. The rough edges of earlier versions are now quite sharp.
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  Shaun

  I think I have to admit that Tank Girl at least in its original form is just not for me. The art is great, but ultimately all it has behind it besides that is crude jokes, manic plots, and british humor I don't understand. That's just not enough to captivate me.
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  Patrick Braue

  Wild! A blast, an acid trip, and a killer comedy all wrapped in one!
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  Dony Grayman

  Tercer y probablemente último tomo de Tank Girl en edición argentina. Con este se completa la trilogía original, pero la editorial todavía no confirmó ni negó si continuará con alguno de los tomos especiales restantes.
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  Russell Mark Olson

  I love Hewlett's art and the free-flow of Martin's stories, but this collection is a bit too disjointed. Quite a bit of supplemental stuff from other artists and writers that just wasn't up to snuff.
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  Johnny Andrews

  So much in your face anarchic fun, so much happening in this collected issues of madness from an array of bounty hunters, all new Jet Girl, British band, The Smiths to Booger's giant tent pole of doom.
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  DEREK CROSSLEY

  Back to tits and guns. Fantastic.
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  Merzbau

  5 stars for the art, the stories vary from 3 to 4 stars..the same can be said for all 3 of the collections
  
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  Kristy

  Can't fault the artwork but I enjoyed Tank Girl the Odyssey a lot more...
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  SE Panoply

  Love 'em! Will have to re-read them again!
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  C

  Pure punk. Ultraviolence, dirty jokes, and constant British music jokes.
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  Juan Pablo

  A pesar de los años mantiene su frescura, ya quisieran muchos dibujantes actuales tener este estilo.
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  Xavier

  Many of the jokes go over my head since I assume the references are before my time but it's a fun wacky absurdist ride all the same. The art is so satisfying too. Highly recommend
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  Tarry O Terra

  amazing!
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  Variaciones Enrojo

  Edición argentina. Tomo 3 prometido para antes de mitad de año.