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VIZ is to stop doing the Fat Slags FOREVER in protest at the rubbishness of the new film. Personally, I thought they'd got more than a bit overplayed but to all accounts this is the big death for eternity.

Anybody have an opinion on this? it's probably the first time the comic-to-film ethic has resulted in the termination of the original comic.

― Vic Fluro, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

fat slags? [snicker] never heard of it. you have a link?

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

It has been rubbish for ages. Good move though.

I'm not sure it was ever actually funny, it just looked like it might be sometimes.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,12589,1330750,00.html

A link to the article - you can probably find examples of the strip itself on Viz's official site.

― Vic Fluro, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

the first Fat Slags strip was funny, in an OMG-how-sexist-and-classist kind of way, but it got repetitive very quickly.

frankly, I am wondering why they never made a film of Finbar Saunders & His Double Entendres. Now that's something that would have packed them in, fnup fnup.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Robt. Crumb killed Fritz the Cat in response to Bakshi's cartoon version (Fritz gets an ice-pick in the head).

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't Tank Girl The Movie kill off Tank Girl The Comic, via Wildly Over Optimistic Investment in merchandising by the Deadline peoples?

― MJ Hibbett, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 08:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard something like that, yeah. Probably from Deadline peoples (in print somewhere - they are not my mates or anything).

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Tank Girl the movie killed Deadline the magazine due to that (well mainly repurposing of all their limited staff resources, unlike say Kitchen Sink Press going under due to investing all their dosh in thousands of The Crow 2 shotglasses and do-rags), I think it killed the series more by removing the last remnants of Hewlett's interest. Having seen the film, he did the very splendid Tank Girl: The Odyssey series with Pete Milligan, which was a less-vicious-than-helplessly-baffled parody of both the flick and the process of making it, and then washed his hands of the character. Great way to go out!

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

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