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Tank Girl was a 1990s English comic strip and the name of the leading character. Drawn by Jamie Hewlett and written by Alan Martin, later writing was done by Peter Milligan.

As the name suggests, Tank Girl drives a tank, which is also her home. She undertakes a series of missions for a nebulous organisation before making a serious mistake and being declared an outlaw; later strips were deeply disorganised and chaotic. Initially set in a stylised Australia (geographical knowledge is slight since she drives Tank from Australia to New Zealand, or it's because there is almost no water on Earth at that time), but most of the strips mime British pop culture. Real-life celebrities (usually B list, from Britpop bands and UK children's TV) shared the page with other major characters: Booga (a talking kangaroo and Tank Girl's boyfriend), the soft toys Camp Koala and Mr. Precocious, Stevie, Barney, Bobby, Sub Girl, Jet Girl and Heli Girl.

History

Tank Girl first appeared in Deadlines first issue (1988) and continued until the end of the magazine in 1995. The UK comic strips were also reprinted in an American publication, Tank Girl (published by Dark Horse Comics), beginning in 1991, with an extended break in 1992; the series ended after eight issues in September 1993. A UK magazine named Tank Girl was published in 1995, publishing a graphic-novel length story written by Peter Milligan loosely inspired by Homer's Odyssey, Joyce's Ulysses and a considerable quantity of junk TV.

At the same time many fans feel Tank Girl jumped the shark in a 1995 film directed by Rachel Talalay and starring Lori Petty
. The film attempted to carry a linear narrative which was converse to the strip's madcap approach. The plot revolves around the fact that Tank Girl and her rebel group are attacked by Water & Power, a powerful force that controls all of the (very little) remaining water on Earth. Tank Girl goes on a quest to recover a young girl (possibly her adopted daughter) and seek vengeance against those who killed her boyfriend. Missing characters from the film included Barney and the only once seen Heli Girl.

The film was widely panned by critics and did extremely poorly, Deadline collapsed, and the character and the strip have not re-appeared since. Jamie Hewlett went on to make his fortune creating Gorillaz with Blur's Damon Albarn. Alan Martin now lives in a caravan in Wales, and has unfortunately not worked since, though he is rumoured to have another project in the pipeline.

Tank Girl, as well as Sub and Jet Girl, are influenced heavily by the characters of Jaime Hernandez's Love and Rockets, but the basis of the character apparently lies in a loud-mouthed Dutch punk girl selling bootleg 2000AD t-shirts in Camden Market in the middle of the 80s.
Tank Girl The Movie
The movie features the following cast:

Lori Petty
as Tank Girl

Ice-T as T-Saint

Naomi Watts
as Jet Girl

Don Harvey as Sergeant Small

Jeff Kober as Booga

Reg E. Cathey as Deetee

Scott Coffey as Donner

Malcolm McDowell
as Kesslee

Stacy Lynn Ramsower as Sam

Ann Cusack
as Sub Girl

Brian Wimmer as Richard

Iggy Pop
as Rat Face

Dawn Robinson as Model

Bill L. Sullivan as Max

James Hong as Che'tsai

Charles Lucia as Captain Derouche

and also featured the following music:'

"Army of Me" by Björk
"Aurora by Veruca Salt
"B-A-B-Y" by Rachel Sweet
"Big Gun" by Ice-T
"Big Time Sensuality" by Björk
"Blank Generation" by Richard Hell & the Voidoids
"Bomb" by Bush
"Drown Soda" by Hole
"Disconnected" by Face to Face
"Girl U Want" by Devo
"Lets Do It" by Joan Jett and Paul Westerberg
"Mockingbird Girl" by The Magnificent Bastards featuring Scott Weiland
"Ripper Soul" by Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, performed by STOMP!
"Roads" by Portishead
"Shipwrecked" by Sky Cries Mary
"Shove" by L7
"Theme from Shaft" by Isaac Hayes
"Thief" by Belly
"2c" by Beowulf
""Wild, Wild, Thing" by Iggy Pop

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