Funny, zany, inexplicable: Tank Girl is gleefully all of these at the same time. There's a general storyline, a lot of villainy, although her brand is playful and a bit self serving, rather than malicious. She has friends, a boyfriend, and it's about them getting along as best they can in a dyst...
I've done my fair share of ripping apart film adaptations over the years, even in cases of films I enjoyed, when the changes pushed on irreconcilable. Most recent examples of this can be seen in my recaps of The Hobbit as I do a chapter by chapter read-through, paired with the movies. Combine that...
Grant Morrison is a mad man. A muscular man. Flex Mentallo uses his muscles to drop people to their knees. just by flexing them.The Beard Hunter. jealous he doesn't have one goes after everyone else's. Shaving cream and razor in hand.That's not all. The Brotherhood of Dada returns. and more really b...
Grant Morrison has made a career out of throwing around tons of wildly creative ideas and waiting to see which ones stick. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But I admire his creativity and willingness to try to work out even his strangest ideas (and DC's willingness to let him do as he likes...
If you don't get the brilliance of Tank Girl, I don't think I want to know you.
There is an odd kind of purity in this level of madness. The narrative just charges forward wherever its going without any concern for narrative, like a drunken dog on Halloween night.
It's not often that a person can say they've read two books with mutant kangaroo characters in a month, but I've accomplished it with my 125th and last book of 2007. The illustrations are fun and the lettering is hard to read. The story, such as it is, is pointless and meandering, but you're not rea...
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