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Strips

Under The Covers: The Plots

Tank Girl: Issue #3 of 4, July 1991

Tank Girl comic cover

Writer: Alan Martin, Jamie Hewlett
Artist: Jamie Hewlett
Cover Artist: Jamie Hewlett
Publication Date: July 01, 1991

Stories:
“Austrailian Job Part 2”. Also in Deadline #9
“The Flowers of Denton Gardens”.
“Hard Boiled”.
“Up Jumped a Jolly Swag Man”.


The Beer Heist continues (See the end of TG issue #2). Returning to the Outback with a tank-load of beer, the girls arouse the attention of the local law (Starsky & Hutch to be exact). Evading the law suddenly involves the alien abduction of a large hamburger which soon come hurdling back toward Earth, further derailing Tanky’s rendezvous with the team. A quick plunge and all was... well?

Tanky tries to bag some extra money promoting Booga as a boxer. Roos like to punch right? Knockout. Poor Booga, but then he gets to wake up next to Tanky. Yummy slurp! Booga’s training required abstinence from beer, cigarettes and sex. Boxing must be bad. Still Tanky spread rumors that Booga was tough as nails, a fierce boxer (even though she admits he "can’t box to save his dick").

A maffia boss with a lot of dough riding on this fight, explains to Tanky that Booga is gonna dive in the 3rd round or they would both die. A $5k negotiation settled in Tanky and Booga’s favor if he took the dive. That girl loves cash. Booga questions his ability to last into the 3rd round. Tanky freely knows he won’t... just part of her plan. And what a plan (or scam) it was. Loaded with loot, Tanky and Booga disappear out a back door; perhaps to engage in some rumpy pumpy...

 
  • One morning Tanky emerges from the shower wrapped in a towel. Nice, and hey, she does shower!
  • As a motivator to box, Tanky tells Booga that he’d better buck up or there would be no more "rumpy pumpy" for as long as he lived. That did the trick.

  • No killing, but Booga takes a beating like a pro.

  • As a parting gesture, Tanky bares her butt with the phrase "Up Yours" written across her cheeks.
  • We see a topless Tanky enjoying a bath with her favorite Marsupial. Splash, splash, kids...

  • With their tank teetering on the edge of a cliff, the weight of the stolen lager begins to tip the tank toward the girl’s certain demise. Tanky is quick with a solution: DRINK!! (wow, that girl knows how to use her mouth!)