Tank Girl 2 (Remastered Edition) (Bk. 2) [Paperback]

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

Book Description

Series: Tank Girl | Publication Date: April 28, 2009

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!

Marking the 20th anniversary of Tank Girl and starting off where book one ended, these are the continuing adventures of everybody’s favourite beer-swilling, chain-smoking, kangaroo-worrying lunatic and all round style icon. After escaping from asylum, Tank Girl goes on the road with Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda, solves a mystery or two and finds time to join Booga’s Treehouse Club. Featuring rarely seen material from Jamie Hewlett and presented for the first time ever, in chronological order.

Warning: Adults only!

Editorial Reviews

Review

"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 is perhaps 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: 120 pages
• Publisher: Titan Books; Anv edition (April 28, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1845767594
• ISBN-13: 978-1845767594
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.3 x 10.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #57,960 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Printed Insanity, not for everyone, November 19, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Tank Girl 2 (Paperback)

Tank Girl is the epitome of a cult classic. It is definately not your traditional comic, there isn't much plot to speak of, nor is there much depth in the stories. This is not the book to read for concise social commentary or introspection. This magic of Tank Girl lies in its incredible art, cathartic writing, and the interaction between the numerous insane characters (as well as the characters and the creators). I would reccommend Tank Girl to someone with a very twisted sense of humor and an open mind. It's not for everyone, and does take a different mind set to appreciate. The only reason I do not give it 5 stars is that one or two of the stories in this book were a little too slow at points, and some of the pages were too cluttered. These are minor gripes, but I don't want to say it's a perfect collection. But worth the $.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Drug years???, July 24, 2009

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J. Fritz (Goodyear, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tank Girl 2 (Remastered Edition) (Bk. 2) (Paperback)

This compilation, like Volume 1, was put together very well with great side notes, an intro from Alan and other extras. They still give you the strips as they were originally drawn, but this was evidentally the point in time when they started to color the strips for Deadline.
Now, let's talk about the downsides of this book. The only complaints about it are really the content of the strip more than anything. This particular compilation seems to house the years of the series when Alan and Jamie were really experimenting as writers and artists, respectively, but also doing much of said experimenting alongside of narcotic experimentation. It references certain authors and movies these guys evidently thought were people to be worshipped (Jack Kerouac's work seems to be the big one), all the while luring the artwork in and out of a psychadelic montage. In fact, most of the book seemed like one big, horny acid trip to me. It started to get a little out of control around the middle. But as I said, earlier: This isn't so much a problem with the compilation so much as it is with the series. So, if you don't like the idea of Tank girl drifting away from the romping through the Outback and into psychological/psychosexual belches followed by 1950s "clean" time, followed by a big psychadelic mess and finally touched off with poverty in the snow jokes, you'd probably just be better off with Volume 1 and only volume 1 (of course, Volume 3 is still on the waiting time...).

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a great read, December 12, 2008

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C. Clements "tgirl" (nc) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tank Girl 2 (Paperback)

tank girl 2 was a really good graphic novel. i love every book in the series. the illustrations are very entertaining. all in all, a great read. i highly suggest it, that is if your into the hewlett-martin world.