Week 9: Tank Girl

   

This week I read a few comics, including revisiting some Asterix from my childhood. But the one I was to talk about is Tank Girl. I already knew a little bit about tank girl, but had never actually read the comics. I also had the fortune/misfortune, depending on how you look at it, of seeing the movie, which while it did a pretty great job of portraying Tank Girl how she acts in the comics, was overall a bad movie.

     The comic at first glance is incredibly colorful and very easy to read. The writing is written to mimic Tank Girl's and the rest of the world's slang and speech. The art is very vibrant and is quite inviting. The overall themes are very often very raunchy and slobbish, but not to the point of grossness. The specific series I read was about Tank Girl being pregnant, so it was very interesting to see her character deal with something as serious as pregnancy, while Booga, her boyfriend kind of just partied non-stop in excitement.
    As far as it being an international comic, it is not as foreign as some which are translated from a foreign language or written by an immigrant, but there is still a distinctly Australian and English flair. Booga appears to be an anthropomorphic version of a kangaroo, most likely the most cliche thing Alan Grant or one of the other writers could come up with to poke fun at a post apocalyptic Australia.