Tank Girl (w/ Melissa L.)

Episode 127: Tank Girl (1995)

Theme: Non-Marvel / Non-DC Comic Book Month
Hosts: Oz & Curtis (feat. Melissa L)

This week, Oz, Curtis, and returning Patreon legend Melissa L blast into the wasteland for Tank Girl — the post-apocalyptic, kangaroo-infused, comic-panel fever dream that plays like A League of Their Own × Evil Dead 2 × a Björk music video × Kangaroo Jack. It’s chaotic, loud, neon, thirsty (literally), and powered entirely by attitude, borks, beer cans, and desert couture.

No rules, no brakes, no plot cohesion — just pure Lori Petty mayhem.

The crew break down:

• Lori Petty’s Tank Girl — chaos gremlin, fashion icon, apocalypse nuisance, and the only person who treats water shortages like mild suggestions.
• Naomi Watts as Jet Girl — shy mechanic, aviation prodigy, goth-baroness vibes, and visibly rethinking her career choices in real time.
• Malcolm McDowell as Keslee — evil CEO, certified water hoarder, hologram-head cyborg, and owner of the world’s most impractical scissor collection.
• The Rippers — Stan Winston kangaroo-men with servo ears, beatnik sax solos, and wildly differing levels of horniness.
• The soundtrack — Björk, Bush, Portishead, Devo-but-Devo-covering-Devo… it’s a mixtape fever dream and the movie’s entire personality.

Final Verdict:

Oz — A Sixer of D’Anni
Curtis — 82 Cans of Mountain Holler
Melissa — One Very Post-Coital Fake Ripper Penis (Budget: $5,000)

Next week: Non-Marvel / Non-DC Comic Book Month rolls on with Sin City (2005) — stylized noir, hard shadows, harder monologues, Elijah Wood eating cereal, Mickey Rourke punching corrupt everything, and more trench coats than a Matrix cosplay meet-up.