The eponymous character Tank Girl (Rebecca Buck – later revealed to have been born as Fonzie Rebecca Buckler) drives a tank, which is also her home. She undertakes a series of missions for a nebulous organization before making a serious mistake and being declared an outlaw for her sexual inclinations and her substance abuse. The comic centres on her misadventures with her boyfriend, Booga, a mutant kangaroo.
I loved this comic as a teen. Post-apocalyptic setting, punk, anarchy, violence, beer, drugs and mutant kangaroo boyfriends left quite an impression on my young mind. 🙂
Oh and they also made a movie which is …bla bla….not nearly as good as the comic….bla bla….not even close to the source material….bla bla….something something…..valid film criticism….bla.
Anyway, on its own the movie is still a fun romp and quite a crazy experience in itself. Oh, and they kept the interspecies mutant kangaroo stuff. 🙂
I remember reading Tank Girl in the long defunct Deadline magazine. I always had a great deal of sympathy for Booga as he never appeared to end up in Tank Girl’s arms despite doing everything she asked of him.
Awww, poor Booga. You are right though. But back then I didn’t consider his feelings. I was completely awed by how uncompromising and extremely self confident Tank Girl was (spoiler: everything I was not).
Alien genitalia has always been a popular topic in Star Trek fandom. People have speculated for decades about Vulcan genitals, and Star Trek: Discovery just confirmed a popular theory about Klingon schlongs. Namely, they have two of them:
… I don’t know whether I want to die laughing, or be turned on, or what…
😂😂😂
Considering Klingon physiology in established canon – there’s an
episode of Next Gen that deals with Worf’s two spines and a mention in
Voyager of half Klingon B’Elanna having two stomachs and multiple mentions
of Klingons have two of just about every organ in redundancy – no one
should have been surprised that the Klingon Males have two penises.
By that logic, Klingon women should have two vaginas/clitorises/wombs
I see your Klingon double penis and raise you one (1) Odo.
also me: ah, but why stick with angel monsters when you can ALSO read alien elf erotica
Oh mY the author is on tumblr! This explains the very vivid descriptions of very specific genitals. Also angsty pretty boys. And somewhat heavy handed handwringing over power dynamics and consent. Like I love how this erotica is trying to be more than erotica, and informed, but if they both wanna fuck and it’s clearly telegraphed as consensual just let em fuck mate. They don’t gotta be politically correct about it when there’s nothing to be politically correct over? This book is full of knotting and alien peen that looks like a tentacled lotus plant, so it don’t have to be that deep
me: *sees a novel where a woman sleeps with a kraken*
me, with a hundred unread samples already on her kinkle, pointing to the shelf: I want that one
HNNNNG. So after being coy and finishing this book in less than a day I’m gonna have to recommend it with some (fairly) large caveats, because even though I’ve got quibbles I really enjoyed it and think it deserves to be read:
Genres: Erotica/Alien kink Read it if you like: knotting, extremely graphic descriptions of VERY creative alien peen, captivity scenarios, tsundere alien princes, soft boys, actual feels, very passionate/loving romances that transcend species and differing genitalia, actual emotional character development in your erotica Warnings: Rape/Attempted Rape (not by the love interest to the protag, though, thank god–he’s good) Things I loved: The book tried to be more than erotica, which was really cool? Like I went into it thinking it would be alien kink junk food, but it actually was really thoughtful and self-aware in its depictions of gender, gender fluidity, power imbalances and depression. The alien prince is great. The pacing is great and the sex is hot. Things I wasn’t too hot on/the caveats: The subtext/philosophical discussions were heavy-handed af and kinda clumsy. As you can see from my complaints above there were points where the author seemed tortured by the current zeitgeist of fictional hand-wringing that we see on tumblr, and it detracted from the story. There was some real shoe-horned death and the maiden stuff at the end that also felt out of place, and the protag–Lydia–really has no character development at all, whether its internal or external. I felt like I was reading about a blank piece of paper designed to reflect the prince’s emotional state–like it was reader x alien–and I’m not a fan of self insert. I’m annoyed at the rape/attempted rape and the subtext surrounding it.
ANYWAYS, IT’S STILL A V GOOD READ. Very quick, only took me a couple hours.
Great review!
For more books with strange, unusual and monstrous love interests take a look at this list:
Nonnie you better sit down, major spoilers under the line so if you don’t want to read them, just don’t but to answer your first question, yes, there is romance ;]
The eponymous character Tank Girl (Rebecca Buck – later revealed to have been born as Fonzie Rebecca Buckler) drives a tank, which is also her home. She undertakes a series of missions for a nebulous organization before making a serious mistake and being declared an outlaw for her sexual inclinations and her substance abuse. The comic centres on her misadventures with her boyfriend, Booga, a mutant kangaroo.
I loved this comic as a teen. Post-apocalyptic setting, punk, anarchy, violence, beer, drugs and mutant kangaroo boyfriends left quite an impression on my young mind. 🙂
Oh and they also made a movie which is …bla bla….not nearly as good as the comic….bla bla….not even close to the source material….bla bla….something something…..valid film criticism….bla.
Anyway, on its own the movie is still a fun romp and quite a crazy experience in itself. Oh, and they kept the interspecies mutant kangaroo stuff. 🙂
Monsters and Villains 