10 Best Movies Based On Dark Horse Comics

A post-apocalyptic movie where all the shallow, one-dimensional characters are male and the female characters are front and centre? That’ll be Tank Girl.

There’s an unwritten rule that if you’re making a futuristic fantasy, then your female lead has to be a piece of eye candy who takes a lot of showers and at one point fights off an army while wearing a leather cat suit.

Not only does the film flout this law, but Rachel Talalay is one of the few female directors to helm a comic book movie (another is Lexi Alexander of Punisher: War Zone fame) and the soundtrack (put together by Courtney Love) is comprised mainly of female-fronted rock bands.

The film’s production designer was Catherine Hardwicke, who later became a director in her own right, most famously with Twilight. Throw in Lori Petty as a punk heroine with attitude to burn, and you’ve got a movie whose attitude towards women is very different from Barb Wire.