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Tank Girl is surprised to learn that she is pregnant. How
will she cope with the rampaging hormones, the mood swings,
the bizarre cravings and the varicose veins? More to the point,
how will she cope with the prophesied end of the world, which
appears to be nigh, not to mention the religious cults who
believe her baby to be their messiah...?
Another
graphic novel, another writer. This time Alan Grant takes
over the scripting chores, but fear not, because he has created
his fair share of anarchy in the past, with his work on
Judge Dredd and Lobo to name but two, so he is
well suited to the world of Tank Girl and Booga.
Even
so, that world has changed somewhat since Tank Girl's early
days in Deadline magazine. In the earliest Deadline
strips, it seemed that our anti-heroine's adventures took
place some time in the future - they featured sentient mutant
kangaroos for cryin' out loud! By this point, however, Tank
Girl clearly occupies the present day, or rather 1995, which
was the present day when Apocalypse! was first published
by Vertigo/DC Comics.
This
story well and truly cashes in on the then current fears about
the imminent new Millennium, and the apocalypses that various
religious and secular texts had predicted. Grant manages to
work in several of these, from the biblical Book of Revelations
to the musings of Nostradamus, and also ties in conspiracy
theories about the world-governing Illuminati. On a lighter
note, irreverent guest appearances are made by a whole host
of real-life characters, including Richard and Judy (renamed
as Robert and Julie), TV fitness freak Mr Motivator, Princess
Diana, the Reverend Ian Paisley, Slobodan Milosevic and Boris
Yeltsin.
Philip
Bond, who is no stranger to Tank Girl, kicks off the
inking chores, working over Andy Pritchett's pencils, but
he is soon replaced by Phil Gascoine. The latter's work is,
in my opinion, visibly inferior to begin with, but soon improves
in quality.
This
is wild and wacky stuff, as Tank Girl should be, and
the body count has never been higher.
Richard
McGinlay
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