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Tank Girl and the end-of-the-world, what could be better?
I think my title sums up my thoughts on this latest outing for TG and the gang. Riffing off Ulysses and every other rendition of Homer's Odyssey the writers could think of, TG: Odyssey sees the usually jumbled and non-linear TG take a direct, structured approach for once. At first I worried there might be a loss of energy as a direct result of losing the freeform style of the original strips, and of course this is a graphic novel rather than a collection of serial strips so the energy *has* to b...
I shouldn't need to have read Joyce's Ulysses to understand a Tank Girl comic. But it turns out Joyce's obsession with piss and shit and food is a perfect fit for the punk icon. The art is gorgeous and the dialogue is full of quotable bits and Joycean puns. It's still a bit up itself, and some of the meta shit doesn't fit with Tank Girl's "fuck everything" attitude. But somehow, Tank Girl: Odyssey kinda works.
Finally a readable Tank Girl graphic.
If I'm forced to read aloud every line to whomever is around to hear, and even recount some of the events like a 10-year-old because they're so clever and funny, then I guess it wins.
I enjoy this Tank Girl take on Homer's Odyssey/Joyce's Ulysses. It's just as random and off the wall as Hewlett and Martin's original strips, but it's an uncharacteristically cohesive narrative with some character development.
I loved this one. This book is a perfect combination of intellect and shite, and I mean that in a positive way. This book is not for the faint hearted. This book is vulgar, but delicious. There are a ton of literary references in this book, not only to the oddysea, but also for example the rime of the ancient mariner, and other classics. This book is for everyone who likes to read something smart, but also likes to go on a trashy ride once in a while, because those two do not exclude each other....
Best graphic novel I've ever read!
Always a good read. Albeit Alan Martin not being on board (how tragic), I feel this one outshone some of the over books in sheer Tank Girl awesomeness.
there is just something rascally about her.the problem is everytime I read it I want to shave my head and do graffitti.Two things i've really had to cut down on since moving to boston,
LOVE the art. Love the whole book. Must read more!
This is one of the better Tank Girl outings, IMO. You got the classic Hewlett art, plus you got Milligan doing a Homer/Joyce mashup. It all melts together deliciously into a weird, funky goo-ball.
The first reeeaaally long form comic that is mostly coherent and simultaneously Hewlett's farewell. Still holds up after all these years.
Asked some of my Tank Girl reading friends where to start, and they said the best story featuring the character is probably this. A twisted take on the Odyssey, starring a girl with a tank and a kangaroo boyfriend, set in a post-apocalyptic Australia but for some reason referencing mostly 90s British culture. The chances of me liking it were 50-50, this much weirdness often backfires. I was sold the moment i saw Peter Milligan (Enigma, Shade, X-Statix) and Jamie Hewlett (designer of Gorillaz, Bl...
Mmmmeh. This is my second Tank Girl, and I came away feeling much the same: whatever. It looks great on (figurative) paper: 1990s, Australian riot grrrl, influenced in equal parts by Mad Max and gutter punk (or maybe I mean crustie) aesthetics. Yo, I'm down with all of this in theory. I'm also down with clever classical references to Odysseus et al. - which this book has loads of - and with smug/clever fourth-wall breaking. But, in practice, actually reading it, I was just like... meh.One good t...
Not sure about this one. It's somewhere between badly pretentious and wonderfully juvenile, throwaway and milestone, funny and seen-it-before. I think if I had read it a decade ago I'd think more highly of it, but looking at it now it really just helps fill a knowledge gap.
tank girl is my girlllll, I love her in every story and this one was no exception. Top notch read, and a must for post apoc/ apoc appreciators.
Oh dear, think I'm a graphic novel convert...now there really isn't enough time in the world to read all the books I want to read.
I enjoyed Tank Girl: The Odyssey immensely. That's all I can really say for certain of this very weird, very fragmented, comic reading... experience. It is an experience. A ride. A journey. An odyssey! If I had to pin down a core, recurring element of this wildly fluctuating spectacle of a book, it would probably be mania. Sheer, undisturbed, persistent mania. The book runs on pure energy, and doesn't skip a single beat in churning out joke after joke, gag after gag, scene after scene. The pacin...
My favourite Tank Girl comic by far
