| Title | : | Tank Girl 2 (Tank Girl, #2) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 184023492X |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781840234923 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 1995 |
Tank Girl 2 (Tank Girl, #2) Reviews
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Boobs! Yes there's boobs, full frontal male nudity, and more great wacky shit from Martin and Hewlett. This very much has that "zine" feel in the analog print production days. It's rough, poorly edited, misspelled, meta-fictional. It's heavy handed satire, slapstick, and damn good fun! -
If you don't get the brilliance of Tank Girl, I don't think I want to know you.
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I've been meaning to read some Tank Girl for ages. Bill had these ones and dug them out for me. I have to say it wasn't what I was expecting. First of all the most amazing thing about the comics was that they were a mixture of colour and black and white in a single issue. I've never seen anyone do that before! I didn't think the comic format allowed for that. So i thought that was really cool. I did quite enjoy them. I liked the art work style. I liked how Tank Girl was both an attractive punk and kinda hideous at the same time. The humour just didn't always sit right with me though and I'm not such a fan of vinegette story telling rather than longer narratives. But I am curious enough to read more.
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Este segundo libro de Tank Girl tiene ilustraciones increibles, pnnk rock, tramas psicodélicas, un monton de páginas a color, más ilustraciones, y varias otras cosas más, pero lo que casi no tiene es el tanque de Tank Girl, y mucho menos una historia coherente. El tema de la historia lo dejamos pasar, porque es obvio que los autores no apuntaban a crear una historia tanto como a poner a su personaje en situaciones interesantes y locas, pero vamos, ¿En donde está el tanque?
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Senseless violence, nudity, sex content in 100 flavours, strong language, blasphemy, dark humour, breaking of the 4th wall, even more senseless violence, drug and alcohol abuse, horrible fart jokes, anarchy, even more violence...
Oh, and it's a story about love and freedom.
And it's completely f***** up. -
I'd like to say that Tank Girl improves from the riotous ridiculousness of the first of these remastered editions, I really would. But it doesn't so much improve as it changes, expands and warps. These stories are delivered to us from Hewlett and Martin in the thick of the British self-proclaimed psychedelic revival (via ecstasy & acid house), trying desperately to adjust their beloved character from her earlier madcap escapades to ones of a more cerebral (or at least hallucinogenic) nature. The results are interesting, but feel just as brainless as before.
Tank Girl in this book is still attached to Booga, but there's considerably less beer, less tanks, less explosions, less guns, more swirling colours, more 'historic' pop-culture references (Kerouac, Hair Bear Bunch/Banana Splits, Jimi Hendrix and Starsky & Hutch all surface here while we get less of the earlier contemporary swipes) and more tangents from the established Tank Girl Reality. Naturally, there are drugs, there are half-assed soul-searches (in what appears to be a lift from/homage to a similar issue of Howard the Duck at the start of this book) and there are the requisite 'meta' appearances of the creators alongside their creations.
Again, not bad and clearly all in the sense of good, filthy fun, and the addition of a large amount of colour work here really enhances Hewlett's overwhelmingly filled-in artwork. Alan Martin appears to be shouldering a bit more of the writing work this volume, if their in-story dialogue is anything to go by, and perhaps it's his fault that this two-dimensional intercontinental vandal is being shoehorned into the way-out wackiness present here. It does prove a respite from the relentless zaniness of book one, and does suggest the potential to do more, but I'm not sure if Tank Girl's the character to be doing it with. We'll see how book three fares.
This edition includes stories from Deadline, the Tank Girl Poster Magazine, an issue of Speakeasy and a short non-TG story from a Comic Relief benefit book. There's about a half-half split between black & white and colour, though the reproduction on both could be better (there are times that the text proves unreadable and it doesn't seem intentional). There are also colour covers from the second Dark Horse TG mini, and what appear to be random pinups from who-knows-where. Alan Martin contributes another entertaining intro, basically laying the groundwork for how off-kilter things get within. The intro is boosted with photos and art that doesn't seem to bear any relation to Martin's words but does a nice job illustrating the time of the original publications (and it's nice to see a photo of an early meeting between eventual Gorillaz co-creators Hewlett and Damon Albarn). -
EDIT: Guys, you don't know how proud I am to have finally finished Tank Girl 2.
I've been trying to finish this book -- nay, to get past the first story, even -- for years. YEARS. It's just that the tone's all wrong and there's NO DAMN TANK. Without a tank, what is Tank Girl? Pretty much Reality Bites with a kangaroo.
So Tank Girl is in this book and this book is called Tank Girl, but that's where it all ends. The stories here are quite long -- Tank Girl and her friends are in a mental hospital, Tank Girl visits a dying relative, Tank Girl has an adventure with Hewlett and Martin for some reason. There's a godawful story where Booga is a police detective and it's horrible. There are a lot of gags at the expense of the editor of DEADLINE, TG's first home, and I'm not sure what that's all about, but it does result in the only interesting story here, in which Tank Girl loses her job as a cartoon character and has to moonlight as a waitress. That was kind of a funny idea.
Oh, and there's one story-within-a-story where Jet Girl talks about that one time she cameoed in another comic. I guess I thought that was also funny, sort of. And I liked cameos by in-world old favorites like Stevie and Camp Koala. And Hewlett's art improves markedly with each story, even while the writing is out to lunch. (Seriously, I don't even know if you'd call most of this "plotted.")
But otherwise it's mostly a lot of boobs (one story seems to just be about TG having an orgasm), as noted previously, which isn't the worst thing? But also not as good as actually making a good comic.
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12/13: The first time I read this, I actually didn't -- I got sort of bored looking for fight scenes, flipped through for boobs and forgot about it. Recently I decided to revisit the series, figuring that as a sophisticated, nuanced older reader, I was sure to get more out of this one a second time around.
But no. I got about three pages into a story where Tank Girl and Jet Girl were stuck in a mental hospital (sounds cool, but boring), flipped to a sequence where the creators had a cameo (long, and whatevs), found a place where Booga had an afro, and then....flipped through for boobs and forgot about it.
I think the classic amazingness of Tank Girl might be confined to the first book, honestly. The first book has fights and, yknow, tanks (!!) and some boobs too. Tank Girl 2 has more boobs, but for some reason isn't a better book. There's just a lot of sitting around and talking while wearing interesting clothes and questionable hairstyles. I don't want Bushwick -- I want Tank Girl!!
Maybe the third book is good? I dunno. -
Ok I don’t have a great deal to say about this one but here is what I do have…
This graphic novel is made up of quite a few short pieces and they were way to short! A story would start getting interesting only to be cut short with an ending that was either a big letdown or made no sense to me at all.
What I did like is Tank girl herself. She is quirky, isn’t scared of the taboo and has a lot of personality; I have never previously found a character quite like her. I found the trip down strange lane intriguing and refreshing.
The artwork was amazing I absolutely loved it. I found that I spent most of my time studying the pictures more than anything else. The art gave me a lot of motivation and inspiration for my own art.
Now as for all the other aspects of the book… well I didn’t like it. I have heard that the first one in the series is a lot better so maybe I might give that one a try (one day). -
I Just recently bought the recently remastered version of this book. I've read plenty of comics and graphic novels over the years but this one stands as my favourite books art thanks to visually impressive of Jamie Hewlett in the 4 books available to which at this point of his career he was getting more paint based and the panels look less scratchy to book 1. (note: i said 4 books availabe of the original series as I dislike Tank girl: apocalypse's story and art style with a passion and because of that now distance myself away from any other TG volume that doesn't feature by Hewlett or TG revivalist artist and all-round good guy Rufus Dayglo).
the stories in this volume do start meaningful but are a bit nonsensical and lack a plot, but I enjoy the art so much its not really much of a bother. My fav story in this volume is Blue Helmet, in which Booga and Tank Girl hitchhike with a writer and his friend whom secretly fancies and much killing/madness ensues. I must of read the volume a number of times and still laugh at half of the gags in it. A lot of the gags revolve around quite warped British-centric humour of the 90s and pisstakes of popular TV series and music at the time. all in a great volume with plenty of visual eye candy to feast on. It may not be for everyone, but certainly is for me! -
I've kind of become hooked on the Tank Girl series this past few months.
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Alan C. Martin wasn't my favorite so far but it's still lots of fun. The series of stories in Vol 2 kind of follows the success and failures of writer Alan Martin and artist James Hewlett, from the beginnings of Tank Girl.
I liked the art work and some of the stories. The first was especially good, very dark and creepy. There are a series of ongoing story-lines; Summer Love Sensation, where Tank Girl goes to visit her grandparents in England and tries to find the fountain of youth to save her grandmother. There is a short take off of Starsky and Hutch. There is a road trip, Blue Helmet, where Tank and her mutant kangaroo boyfriend, Booga, travel around the US with Jack Kerouac and his friend. The story is a combination road trip and rampage.
The stories are wild and crazy but they do grab your attention. there are also nice snippets about the creators of Tank Girl. I will continue reading this series. (3 stars) -
Tank Girl 2
4/5 stars
This was basically a compilation of different stories and I loved most of them (except for the ones that didn't have Tank Girl at all in them, those are what dragged my rating a bit)
But man were most of them amazing
-From the first one where Tank Girl is in an insane asylum and some guy is messing with her head. It gave me serious Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe vibes and made me realize how alike they are.
-The one with her grandparents and the fountain of youth was my favorite one I loved the vibe and the new characters and how it showed a softer side of such a tough lady
-The one where they're hitchhikers and it's very pulp and she murders everyone was cool too
The art is gorgeous! There is obviously a lot of profanity, violence, nudity, all that jazz. It's super gritty and you can tell -as it is blatantly stated by the creators- that these guys were on drugs while writing a good chunk of this book.
The characters
Tank Girl-
Ugh I have such a major crush on her I wanna have her babies.
Her kangaroo boyfriend is pretty rad too, but such a ditz.
Overall:
Thanks to my sister Sammy for getting me this.
I need more now! -
I am new to Tank Girl. I started, Naturally, with Tank Girl: One. I found it to be a bit crazy and unfocused, but utterly charming. By the end I felt like it had started to "find itself" Maybe the authors felt that too, and then desperately tried to run away from that notion.
This collection tries real hard not to meet your expectations or to be seen as anything other than "out there." It almost seems like at times this sabotages their own comic. Also, sooo much of this is "drug trippy." And listen, I am sure drug trips are real fun to be on, I just don't find them that fun to read about.
Some positives though, the art is still real nice. -
This episode of Tank Girl see's a short-story format, with snappier episodes. In particular the authors play with meta inbetween and in each story-line. The character is less overwhelming and gives a good chance for development of relationships between Booga and Stevie, as well as with some longer-lived motive, other than I'm angry Ill punch, I'm hungry Ill eat. Again the images live up to a beautiful in the most coarse way standard.
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The addition of color to the series does make the art stand out, allowing for more emotion depth to Jamie Hewlett’s drawings. This makes for a more intense comic, but a darker one. The anarchistic spirit and punk sensibilities are still there, but the humor has been tempered. There is rage and disillusionment here, but Tank Girl is relegated to become an observer. She isn’t fighting as hard as she used to, and that's discouraging.
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The artwork is amazing. The writing is terrible and I got to the end mostly drooling over Hewlitt’s visuals and ignoring the text. Maybe the writing was added in to interpret the fantastic art— book was mind numbing and should be read while dropping L.
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Really weird yet every funny, the art is edgy and provocative, just a brilliant peace of punk art
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Still not the biggest fan of the art style, but boy did this volume take me for a ride. The story line is still hilarious and I will continue to read this comic.
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Better than #1
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Ummm.. does Tank Girl need a review? She's amazing.
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Much better thank the last, the lines more mature and cleaner while the story and images get messier and bloodier in the best way!
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This second issue was a bit more all over the place but still a fun ride.
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A few really good bits smothered in a lot of Gonzo and vulgar and immature sexual innuendos and ultra-violence.
Overall it was fun. -
Schade
Band 1 war richtig gut, ein spassiges, abgedrehtes, gewalttätiges und rebellisches Aufbegehren gegen Comickonventionen.
Leider schließt der hier vorliegende Band 2 nicht daran an. Die Autoren haben hier scheinbar mehr mit Drogen und Alkohol experimentiert als die Protagonistin, und heraus kommt ein total zusammenhangloser Haufen völlig wirrer Textbausteine, verknüpft über bunte Bildchen. Weder besonders witzig noch hübsch anzuschauen, bleibt das Fazit, dass man besser nüchtern bleibt, wenn man ein Comic schreibt, sogar wenn es sich um Drogen dreht.
Ich fand die ganzen Kifferwitze halt nur zum Gähnen; man merkt, dass die Autoren sich an ihren eigenen Insiderwitzchen total aufgeilen (die aber wohl nur sie selbst zum Lachen finden) und es entsteht das Bedauern, was da aus einem vielversprechenden Titel gemacht wurde. Da hat sich jemand zu Tode amüsiert.
Zur Ehrenrettung darf man erwähnen, dass dieser Band Anfang der Neunziger entstand; und da fand man sowas noch komisch. -
The much (and wrongfully) maligned second volume of the series, swings all over the place conceptually, while maintaining a sticky consistancy. The avowedly slapdash stoner methodology of the creators is even further at the forefront here, and they wind up inserting themselves into the text on a regular basis. Shifting even more heavily between pop culture formats (elements of Jack Keuroac, Yogi Bear, Starsky & Hutch), the second volume is more readable pannel to pannel, with its still ribald wit having been refined as well. Whats odd (and it's certainly not the only thing) about Tank Girl is that in its' playfulness, its almost as if we are meant to consider the work as a byproduct of the act of its creation.
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Este tomo comparte defectos y virtudes del anterior, y no sé si es por eso que desgasta un poco leerlo aunque tiene muchas partes muy graciosas (y todas excelentemente dibujadas) o qué, pero voy a esperar con ciertas ansias masoquistas el tomo Tres, aunque más o menos sé por dónde irán los tiros la próxima. Como bien Jack Kerouac en su Casco azul, Tank Girl es un viaje de idea:
Jamás volvimos a ver a Tank Girl. Tampoco queríamos. Sabíamos lo que iba hacer: chupar, matar, afanar, tirarse pedos, pegarle en las bolas a los que la miraban raro.
¿A quién le importa? A mí, seguro que no... Que le vaya bien... Haga lo que haga...
Fin. -
Sigh, they created the best comic in the universe and then they get all post-modern or "meta' or whatever the guys with degrees call it and ruin the whole fucking thing. Oh sure, there's some little ember og former greatness glowing, but mostly the awesomeness has been snuffed out. Thanks for nothing, guys.
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Not a fan of this. While I thought the first volume was okay, this second volume of Tank Girl epitomizes all the most annoying trends in indie comics: constantly breaking the fourth wall, chaotic page layouts, and a lot of plots-about-how-we-haven't-thought-of-a-plot that come off as more lazy than self-aware. I don't think I'll bother continuing with this series.
