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Chargement... 21st Century Tank Girlpar Alan C. Martin
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Appartient à la sérieTank Girl (21st Century 1-3)
After a break of 20 years, Tank Girl co-creator Jamie Hewlett (GORILLAZ) is back! His first comic in decades is crazy, revolutionary, mind-altering, and beautiful. In 21 Tank Girl, Jamie rejoins writer Alan Martin and six other artists (some Tank Girl Stalwarts, some newcomers) to produce a book of epic stupidity. This is Tank Girl for a new age. Get your head down, put your hands over your private parts, and prepare for a relentless onslaught of comics, pin-ups, poems, short stories, and needless random carnage!. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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How fucking brilliant am I?
I pluck clouds from the sky
When I sleep I can fly
When it’s breakfast I fry
How fucking brilliant am I?
As I like good comics I was hoping the stories might be better. They are but not much. In the first one, ‘Tank Girl’ goes to a mining asteroid to steal the valuable fuel ore she needs to power her tank in an upcoming race against an evil crime lord. In the second, she gets involved in a plot to steal God’s underpants, an Indiana Jones style relic in a museum. There are multiple cultural references to television shows, films and some minor British celebrities, which will baffle any U.S. audience. I confess I stopped reading after that.
To be fair, this sort of off-the-wall black humour is par for the course in certain ‘2000AD’ strips, along with graphic violence and a generally anarchic political attitude. Done well, it can be entertaining but this is not done very well. To be even fairer, one of the great redeeming features of even a badly scripted comic for me is the art. The stories at least had a plot and made sense and I might have read more if the pictures were pleasing to the eye but I didn’t like the art here. Comic artists have various classic influences nowadays: Jack Kirby, Will Eisner, John Buscema, Neal Adams and so on. The influence here seems to be a five-year-old boy trying to do Picasso. The resulting doodles may impress intellectuals but give little pleasure to someone reared on the aforementioned pencillers of American super-hero adventures.
Physically, this book is well packaged with a hardback cover and fine, glossy paper. It seems odd that such quality production has been used on such dire material but that’s publishing. At this time of year, all sorts of stuff appears in the bookshops from celebrity memoirs to joke books by current comedians. Someone must buy it. Presumably, someone will want this as well but I really don’t recommend it to anyone over the age of twelve and the bad language makes it unsuitable for anyone younger than that. However, teen-agers have been buying stuff deemed inappropriate by old fogeys since Elvis started releasing records. My parents hated ‘Monty Python’ and I don’t like ‘Tank Girl’. If you do, then go ahead and buy it and when you’re an old fogey, like me, something else will come along and your kids will love it and you will hate it. Time marches on.
Eamonn Murphy
This review first appeared at https://www.sfcrowsnest.info/ ( )