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Has Tank Girl Grown up - or Just Boring?

By Raven Baker

Baltimore City Paper | February 5, 2008

The cult comic series, on hiatus since the mid-'90s debacle of a movie adaptation, has been revived. Unfortunately, its namesake has lost her gutter charm.

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Tags: Alan Martin And Ashley Wood, Tank Girl: The Gifting, Fiction Reviews

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