Tank Girl’ alienated fans and baffled newcomers when it was adapted for the big screen, neutering a comic book punk idol and her mutant kangaroo boyfriend in the process.
The adaptation of Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin's UK comic book, was a critical and commercial failure. The same industry figures who wanted it made were also somewhat baffled by it, in the process neutering an underground superhero beloved by punks and weirdos. Legend lives on.
Writer and co-creator (along with Jamie "Gorillaz"hewlett) of the seminal comic character Tank Girl.