Tank Girl 1 (Remastered Edition) (Bk. 1) [Deluxe Edition] [Paperback]

Alan C Martin (Author), Jamie Hewlett (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 28, 2009 | Series: Tank Girl (Book 1)

She’s back to wreck her own unique brand of havoc! From the depths of the outback she charges, astride her fabulous tank! Run for the Hills! It’s... Tank Girl!

Join everybody’s favourite beer-swilling, chain-smoking, kangaroo-worrying lunatic as she blitzes her way through a dazzling array of bizarre adventures, including bounty hunting, delivering colostomy bags to Australian presidents, kangaroo boxing... and many more outrageous and mind-warping thrills! Marking the 20th anniversary of Tank Girl, with a new introduction from Alan Martin, and rarely seen material from Jamie Hewlett, this is the start of the ultimate collection. Presented for the first time, in chronological order and in glorious black and white - the way nature intended!
Warning: Adults only!

Editorial Reviews

Review

"As much of a wisecracker as she is woman warrior.” - New York Times

"Here in these newly minted Tank Girl editions stands Hewlett’s art as it was originally presented. Raw, powerful, and totally screwed-up bonkers. It’s beautiful black and white cartooning at its best and it’s one of the biggest reasons I fell in love with this book." - Ain't It Cool News

About the Author

Alan Martin is the co-creator of Tank Girl (along with artist Jamie Hewlett), and writer of the first three Tank Girl graphic novels. He is also the writer of Armadillo!, a Tank Girl prose novel (also available from Titan Books).

Jamie Hewlett has worked on a wide variety of comics projects, including Fireball and 2000 AD’s Hewligan’s Haircut,visual genius behind virtual pop group Gorillaz, soon to get their own show on MTV UK.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Titan Books; Anniversary edition edition (April 28, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1845767578
• ISBN-13: 978-1845767570
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.3 x 10.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,141 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining compilation. Great introduction to the franchise., June 17, 2009

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J. Fritz (Goodyear, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tank Girl 1 (Remastered Edition) (Bk. 1) (Paperback)

Being somewhat a cult comic fan, I'm always on the lookout for REALLY original looking stuff. So when I heard about "Tank Girl," I HAD to check it out. This compilation series starts off with Alan Martin, the writer of Tank Girl, giving an introduction talking about the source of inspiration for Tank Girl among other things. The series itself is pretty random and childish, but also very funny, violent, sexy and stylish. It's mostly about a girl in her early twenties driving a highly armed tank around a post-apocalyptic Australia. Lots of boozing, nudity and kangaroo jokes.

This volume shows all the Tank Girl stuff from the first 8 issues of Deadline in the original black and white forms, which can be problem because :

A.) Some of the words are sort of faded, but not too bad.

B.) All you people who constantly demand to see color in movies, comics and music will be sorely disappointed.

Anyway, as a newcomer to the series, I was happy with it, but for the rest of you veteran fans, there's probably not too many reasons for you to replace the previous compilations you bought years ago with this one.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Favorite comic book, October 15, 2010

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This review is from: Tank Girl 1 (Remastered Edition) (Bk. 1) (Paperback)

Tank girl is my favorite comic book character. I love this graphic novel!!!!! The product was in excellent condition when I received it. If you're a nerd and a girl you'll fall in love with Tank Girl, if you're a boy than you'll be laughing your bum off the whole time you're reading it!

11 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars New, better binding, but lack of color ruins it., September 12, 2009

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Roselynde Barrow (Santa Cruz, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tank Girl 1 (Remastered Edition) (Bk. 1) (Paperback)

I bought this and the second book of the "remastered" edition because I had bought the old editions and the covers just plain fell off. I took them back to my local comics shop and was told they had simply glued issues together (yep, thats what they did). So the second I'd open the cover, the glue would become unstuck and just fall off. Pretty lame. These are bound in a different way, and stay on much better. But the color is non-existent! Why?! Why take a wonderfully illustrated set of comics and take that away? That's half of the enjoyability of the books, is the artwork. So for now, I'm stuck with these, better bound books, and my old poorly bound, but more vibrant books. Boo.