yay! I came home to my Tank Girl issue #3 subscription, ready for reading at my door! I am a Tank Girl fan, yes I do own the awful Lori Petty movie, and I do adore it, and I was thriled to hear Alan Martin was digging her up for a new run of comics. Artist Ashley Wood is illustrating them, and it's sheer girly delight of lovely pink drawings with the same old poo-poo jokes. Also very cool is Ashley's comments on Tank Girl's new look:
"We were concerned that she didn't make her re-appearance in the same, tired old clothes that she bowed out in some twelve years ago. What was alternative, upsetting, anarchic, and just plain odd-ball back then has since become common place. Mainstream media smothers us daily with punky chic, and modern day babies can be seen sporting spikey hairdos and Travis Bickle T-shirts. The uniform of the cultural revolutionary has been sold to The Man. So how to rebel? How give the finger to the fashion fascists? Normal is the only way ahead. Dress like a high school teacher from the mid-eighties, or pick clothes from your boring aunty's wardrobe. The only way left to rebel is to dress like you're not rebelling."
I can't wait to curl up on my couch now and immerse myself. I thououghly enjoyed 1 and 2, and I'm sure 3 will be just as good.
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