10 Comic Book Characters Every Reader Wants To Be
4. Tank Girl Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martins grotty punk anti-hero debuted in Deadline magazine in 1988 and took British pop culture by storm. At the time, the UKs Conservative government had enacted legislation that prohibited the promotion of homosexuality as a valid lifestyle choice, and the outlaw Tank Girl a human swear word in shorts and bra top, chainsmoking and driving a tank through lifes problems with a middle finger up at the world became the poster girl for the counter cultures opposition to the new law and to eighties homophobia in general, and a lesbian icon along the way. Today, Tank Girl is a role model and hero to a whole new generation of feminine, feminist and alternative/indie women and girls the world over, LGBT or otherwise. One of the first cosplay darlings at comics conventions, her look has been half-inched by rock stars and her attitude has become a definitive benchmark for female empowerment and vitality. And just so you know, shed kill and eat the Spice Girls.