{"id":3295,"date":"2009-04-08T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2009-04-07T22:01:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T22:01:10","slug":"tank-girl-one-remastered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2009\/04\/08\/tank-girl-one-remastered\/","title":{"rendered":"Tank Girl One (Remastered)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Hewlett<\/strong> & Martin<\/strong> (Titan Books)
\nISBN: 978-1-84576-757-0<\/p>\n

It’s hard to believe that our recent past is so far away. Back in the wild and wacky 1980s when I was tea-boy on Warrior<\/strong> magazine (still one of the most influential independent comics ever produced) there was a frantic buzz of feverish creativity in the British comics scene wherein any young upstart could hit the big time.<\/p>\n

Possibly the most upstarty of all were the art-students Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin (and tangentially, Phillip Bond) who prowled the local convention circuit impressing the hell out of everybody with their photocopied fanzine Atomtan<\/strong>. At the back of issue #1 was a pin-up\/ad for a dubious looking young lady with a big, BIG gun and her own armoured transport. And now it’s suddenly twenty-one years later…<\/p>\n

Commissioned by Brett Ewins and Steve Dillon for their new venture Deadline<\/strong>; a pop-culture magazine with loads of cool comics strips, the absurdist tales of a feisty, well-armed chick roaming the wilds of a futuristic Australia with her Kangaroo boy-friend Booga caught the imagination of a large portion of the public. There was even a movie…<\/p>\n

Titan Books, self-appointed guardian of The Best of British strip art, has remastered those old adventures and spin-offs for a six-volume chronological and complete compilation and this initial edition collects the first fifteen instalments (October 1988-February 1990) featuring such landmarks as the President’s colostomy bags, ‘Big Mouth Strikes Again’<\/em>, ‘The Australian Job’,<\/em> ‘The Preposterous Bollox of the Situation’ <\/em>and loads of other bizarre thrills plus the now legendary ‘How to Draw Tank Girl the Jamie Way’<\/em> and even pin-ups and a cover gallery.<\/p>\n

If you’ve never seen the anarchic, surreal, ultra-violent (in a funny way) and hip-culturally drenched peculiarity that was Tank Girl, bastard love child of 2000AD<\/strong> and Love and Rockets<\/strong>, you’ve missed a truly unique experience – and remember, she doesn’t care if you like her, just so long as you notice her.<\/p>\n