Writer: Peter Milligan
Artist: Jamie Hewlett
Publisher: Titan Books
What's it about?
It's rude, it's crude, it's very very lewd.
Have you ever seen the 1995 Tank Girl movie? Well, the comics aren't like that. Speaking as someone who loved the film, that isn't a criticism. The comic includes boozing, shagging, farting, vomiting and eyes of God able to fight off evil cannibalistic movie producer types. You'll see a couple of familiar faces from the film - Booga the humanoid Kangaroo and Jet Girl, the girl with a jet. There is however no water shortage, no post apocalyptic waste land and nothing futuristic about it.
So what is it about? It's about a modern day Australian, boozing, smoking and abusing her way through life. And it's all tightly woven around the plot of Homer's Odyssey and James Joyce's Ullysees. For those of you not familiar with Homer's poem, it deals with the hero Odysseus and his journey home from the Trojan War. It takes him ten years to get home and while he is away his wife Penelope and son Telemachus must deal with a hoard of suitors, wanting to wed Penelope.
