Tank Girl: The Odyssey (Tank Girl (Graphic Novels)) [Paperback]

Peter Milligan (Author), Jamie Hewlett (Illustrator)

Book Description

Series: Tank Girl (Graphic Novels) | Publication Date: July 1, 2003

A twisted take on Homer's classical Greek epic, The Odyssey, brought to you by Peter Milligan (X-Statix) and Tank Girl co-creator and artist, Jamie Hewlett (Gorillaz), the Tank Girl Odyssey makes a few "minor" changes to the original...Booga, husband of Tank Girl, is being wooed by countless Hollywood producers, and without his wife there his resolve is crumbling. Tele, their TV-headed son, knows that he must contact his mother...setting off a chain of events that will see Tank Girl face death itself, the siren call of gothic rock, a cyclopean hotel proprietor, and a host of other scenes and characters from The Odyssey...given the - ahem - "idiosyncratic" Tank Girl treatment! Warning: Adults Only!

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About the Author

Peter Milligan has written a dazzling variety of comics, including Shade, The Changing Man, Enigma and The Extremist. He is the current writer of Marvel's X-Statix. Jamie Hewlett has worked on a wide variety of comics projects, including Fireball and 2000 AD's Hewligan's Haircut, and is now a household name owing to his design of the Gorillaz virtual pop group, soon to get their own show on MTV UK.

Product Details

• Paperback: 104 pages
• Publisher: Titan Books (July 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1840234946
• ISBN-13: 978-1840234947
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 0.3 x 10.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,144,848 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tank Girl gets her grubby paws on the Odyssey..., February 7, 2010

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J. Fritz (Goodyear, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tank Girl: The Odyssey (Remastered Edition) (Tank Girl (Unnumbered)) (Paperback)

This comic is essentially a "Tank Girl" version of the Odyssey. We start out with Tank Girl having been at a party for years at "Troy's house," when Booga (kangaroo bf) is given an offer by a movie agent to be made a "much bigger star than Tank Girl." Meanwhile, Tank Girl assembles a crew (various cast regulars and cameos by the creators) to get back in time to slaughter Booga's suitor and must overcome obstacles such as Tankie's dead mother, a hotel that only accepts payments in eyeballs, a goth-rock band called "The Sirens" and more. What I think is admirable about this is that Alan Martin, co-creator and usual writer of Tank Girl, stepped out and was replaced with Peter Milligan for this story. Peter Milligan, with fairly limited knowledge of Tank Girl, managed to capture the essence of Tank Girl and also wove an interesting "Tank Girl/punk rock/bogjoke" interpretation of the Odyssey. This book, like the other remastered editions I've reviewed, has an introduction from the author (a different author this time) as well as an additional comic about Tank girl and Booga camping out in Arlington National Cemetery. The story for Tank Girl Odyssey isn't too bad, although there are times when you can almost tell that it's being written by someone else (mainly because it doesn't end with Alan Martin's usual "then she takes acid and blows up the planet" type of ending). As for the content, it's the usual immature substance abuse, drinking, toilet humor, femme fatale act you'd expect from Tank Girl. The Odyssey reference is also pretty interesting for those of you who aren't uncultured swine.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tank Girl: The Odyssey, February 13, 2011

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shamus - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Tank Girl: The Odyssey (Remastered Edition) (Tank Girl (Unnumbered)) (Paperback)

I'm really glad I got this book. It's funny and the art is good and it kinda does follow "The Odyssey". It was made after the horrible movie, so there's cracks in the story about it. The staff is included as characters (poor Jamie). I guess I should add that it's not for small children. But, if you're getting a "Tank Girl" you probably know that already. For me, a 43 yr old geek girl, this was the perfect thing to unwind and lighten up after stressful days. BLOOD AND SNOT!!

1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tank Girl TPs, December 2, 2008

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beansidhe.harmony "dischord" (Pocatello, ID USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tank Girl: The Odyssey (Tank Girl (Graphic Novels)) (Paperback)

Great book, lots of post-apocalyptic beer-guzzling, butt-smoking, heat-packing action. It never hurts when your boyfriend is a homicidal manimal who resembles what was once a kangaroo, either. Sweet.