TANK GIRL VOL 2 GN (O/A)

Review by: chlop

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Size: pages
Price: 16.95

Tank Girl is a strange woman that has a kangaroo as a friend and they have weird adventures…

This TP combines pictures, text and images outside of panels, unique word balloons and lettering, and different drawing styles – from the simple to the complicated and beautiful (a drawing that seems to have been done using colored pencils).
The uniqueness of the word balloons and lettering means that it was sometimes hard to distinguish who says what, and that sometimes the letter S looked like the letter G.

The TP has plastic like pages and looks like it is four issues combined (instead of the regular “a bunch of pages combined”) and my copy made noises that seemed to come from the spine when I leafed through it.
It says on the back cover that this is for adults (it contains sex, violence, drugs and alcohol).

Because of the various drawing styles and the fact that there are short stories, and stories in several parts, drawings that take two pages that some of them require you to turn the TP to see them (like Playboy), and the weird unrelated stories make this TP seem like an anthology.
The stories are weird and some of them are hard to get through but some are good and interesting.
In the drawings you can see printing-dots sometimes.

The combination of weird stories that some are in parts and the fact that there isn’t a clear separation between stories, and that there is one story that contains a comic book (a comic book within a comic book), and the combination of so many drawing styles makes this TP confusing.

In the beginning there is a short text with pictures that continues in the next TP and it tells about the creators and after it there is a short and weird interview with the creators.
According to Wikipedia it seems Tank Girl is a character that has been abandoned and that the creators have gone their separate ways, and that the writer joins with other artists sometimes to create new strips, and that collections are published once in a while.

Despite the weird stories and the confusion I’m interested in buying another TP of this character. I can’t recommend buying this TP but you should at least leaf through this and look at the different and interesting drawing styles.
Here are some examples of the weird stories that this TP contains: Tank Girl is in some institution and she plans to escape, Tank Girl wants to find the fountain of youth in order to save a relative, a short part about Deadline magazine not publishing Tank Girl strips anymore etc.

Story: 2 - Average
Art: 4 - Very Good

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