WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: The Remastered Tank Girl Collections

2 Comments | Posted: May 20th, 2009 | Filed under: What I've Been Reading | Tags:


Titan has done right by Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin’s iconic heavy weapons fetishist with these nicely-priced volumes that feature the original Tank Girl stories in their original black and white, erasing the damage caused with the murky reproduction from the digitally-colored 90s reissues and reminding me why this is one of my very favorite comics series. Gloriously nonsensical plots, remarkably funny dialogue, and cartooning that never stops combine perfectly with the sort of alchemy that is all too rare in any medium, and the bonus materials (Martin’s introductions featuring rare photos and illustrations, covers from that era, etc) just make a $14.95 price tag seem a cursory thing, a slight delay in one’s attainment of these books.


Can you tell I like Tank Girl a truly embarrassing amount? Anyway Amazon’s got ‘em even cheaper – $10.17 a pop, qualifying for Amazon Prime, etc, etc. Volume 1 and Volume 2 are out now, with the next few months seeing Volume 2 and The Odyssey back in print.

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2 Comments on “WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: The Remastered Tank Girl Collections”

  1. 1 Juisarian said at 12:04 pm on May 20th, 2009:

    I recently discovered that Tank Girl is being published in JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE. Don’t know if it is a new story or a reprint but it’s new to me so I guess now I am a MEGAZINE reader…

    Also re-read the two recent miniseries on the bus last week, engrossing stuff.

  2. 2 Kevin Church said at 11:26 pm on May 20th, 2009:

    Those are all-new stories written by Martin with art by Rufus Dayglo. If I were a better fan, I’d get them in Dredd instead of waiting for IDW’s inevitable trades.