Comments on: Tank Girl, Then and Now

By: HellForLeather

HellForLeather — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 06:47:53 +0000

No, no, nonononononononono
Tank Girl is all about attitude, hers, and lots of it.
Rebelling by not rebelling is already soooooo old.

By: Nicole Powers

Nicole Powers — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:34:40 +0000

Tank Girl’s hanging out with the Suicide Girls.

Check out the new page at the link below:

http://suicidegirls.com/news/culture/23387/

By: Sam Ramirez

Sam Ramirez — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:02:44 +0000

I myself am not too fond of the new look. For me, Tank Girl was basically heroin-shic (heroin via the drug). Now they have tried to make her just shic. Her new look, basically takes all the spunk outa her now.

On that note, walking through Border’s bookshop and looking at the mags I saw a comic that looked like Tank Girl. Since it was in a Teenage Girl magazine, I wondered why it was there. Pivking it up I realized it wasn’t Tank Girl. The point of that ever-so-wonderful story was that Tank Girl’s signature styles are inspiration for even today’s comics. Now with her new look she basically looks like a businesswoman or a working mom compared to her old style.

In conclusion I am very disappointed with the new look. However! I do agree that the new way of rebelling is to dress normal or take old things. But, come on! They could have done way better than that. Look at our very own Zo, she takes vintage pieces a lot and looks like a bad-ass rebel…or a cupcake depending which ones you look at. Anyways they could have done a WHOLE lot better with their concept.

By: draquinzel

draquinzel — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:47:04 +0000

Well I love tank girl mainly because she is a dick and a douche bag XD

and for some reason I can´t imagine a girl with that attitude dressing like that… any way Ill wait to see the comic to make a bigger judgment but to me the cloths don’t go with the attitude of tankie…
mainly she looks like some sort of intelectual rebellios girl wich is not the type of tank girl

By: Megz

Megz — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:27:41 +0000

I think this new design is such bullshit.
How could anyone want her changed this much???
It comepletly goes against what she embodies
and stands for.

I couldn’t be more upset
about this debacleous rebirth of tank girl.
People love her for her unique, crazy outfits.
I don’t think her look has become mainstream
at all.

I don’t like her new look in the least. I think
it’s plain, dated, boring, and safe. There’s
nothing tank girl about it and that makes me very
sad. I don’t even want to see the comic.

Tank Girl is my favurite lady of all time and it
distresses me a great deal that this is being done
to her. I hope this change is not permenant.

Horrid horrid mistake to make.
Leave her be,
everyone loves her the way she is.

By: Emilia Jane Mazza

Emilia Jane Mazza — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:24:09 +0000

Bollocks to conservatism as the new punk. I mean seriously who buys that idea for one second? I hate the idea that conservatism is the final frontier of fashion and I feel deeply distressed that not taking any risks is considered risky. Tank Girl still inspires me on a daily basis and I could care less that her look is considered tired and old. Hell at least its a look, and one that isn’t afraid to kick it with the best of them.

By: catwalk_ghost

catwalk_ghost — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:01:48 +0000

OMG! It’s so lame! Must say I’m also quite irritated by the whole “look normal – they shouldn’t suspect anything” logic, being pretty much promoted by media, “alternative” (if the word is appropriate celebrities) and the problem of unemployment (definitely in Europe). The sad thing that so much creative and alternative people are buying into this shit. Look at all this new music-related scenes, that are developing their own normalized looks, like “hardcore” kids (who look like in between chavs and skaters – literally like the new everymen) or say “mods” (I mean the new trendy variation of the style – not the original 60′s – 70′s look) who tend to look like yuppies… Some people are also buying into that, cos they believe into idea of “performativity” (as in Judith Butler), when it doesn’t matter how you look but what you do! But the problem is most of them don’t do a shit, apart from socializing and being snobbish! Its a shame that alternative culture seems to be losing one of the most important achievement – sense of ownership of your body and the control of the style. Alternative culture unfortunately is getting more influenced by codes and mechanisms of fashion, rather than the idea of embodied individualism! :(

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By: Tequila

Tequila — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:05:16 +0000

@Mer…THB continues on its erratic and beautiful course. Though I wouldn’t expect another dip in that world any time soon Paul Pope continues to keep going with it…it’s always been a series that pops up either as a handful of issues then a giant special…or as part of something experimental like his BUZZ BUZZ magazine.

Any Tank Girl fan would dig it but it’s less a dystopian nightmare world and more a balanced and well executed society that I think most of us would dig living in…if only for the cool Mars Mek’s.

Love his work…one of the most original voices comics has ever had.

By: Shay

Shay — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:46:21 +0000

You can add me to the list of Tank Girl and Ashley Wood fans who just don’t feel the two loves mesh well together.

To me, Tank Girl will always be Jamie Hewlett’s art.