Tank Girl: The Movie: A Novel

Tank Girl: The Movie: A Novel

1995 • 185 pages

Probably the perfect person to write the ill-fated novelisation of the ill-fated film. Millar's realism is fantastic and his fantasy full of humdrum reality.
He was quoted as saying “it was such a lot of money for so little time” which is what most people focus on. But Millar also said he “tried to capture the spirit of Tank Girl”.
I think he did, the Tank Girl of the comics is a drunken, lying, chaotic braggart who somehow floats along in life getting into (and somehow out of) ridiculously perilous situations. The film was good fun but much less grubby than source material. This novelisation heroically tries to pull the two together.
In a bar, in the outback, while biblical floods rain down, Tank Girl drunkenly tells her tale to anyone who will listen (whether they want her to or not).
I've wanted to read this for years and I don't think anyone else could have done her justice!

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