Tank Girl: The Odyssey #2

Part two of DC Vertigo's four-issue miniseries finds Tank Girl filling the cover in an arresting close-up — cigarette clenched between her teeth, a crucifix earring dangling from her ear, and a band-aid across her cheek — while her companion Booga looms large on the left, the two faces nearly cheek to cheek in an unsettling, oddly endearing portrait. Brian Bolland's cover linework is meticulous and intense, rendering every stubbled pore and wiry strand of hair with the kind of craft that makes you linger before you even open the book. With Peter Milligan writing and Jamie Hewlett on interior art, this 1995 Vertigo series pairs exactly the right creative voices for Tank Girl's anarchic, mythic road trip.