Tank Girl returned to shelves on Wednesday in the form of Solid State Tank Girl #1 from Titan Comics. Perhaps coincidentally, but probably not, the artists at Ashcan Allstars have been celebrating Tank Girl week.
There's some good work there — Tank Girl is a hard character to get right, tonally. Alan Martin's signature character may have inspired a generation of Suicide Girls, but it's hard to find an instance in her comics where her sexiness is ever being used in an exploitative fashion. Sure, there's loads of gratuitous female and male nudity in the back catalog, but it's almost certainly there for comedic reasons rather than titillation. So any artist attempting to draw the character as a straight-up cheesecake pin-up is completely missing the point. By and large, the Allstars have mainly got it right, but I'll let you be your own judge of who's been successful and who hasn't — there's a gallery of examples after the break.