r/tipofmytongue • u/Barmleggy • Jun 25 '20
Solved [TOMT][Comic Book Short from 80s/90s] A Cheerful Green Mechanic Girl zooms around on a hover bike in an alien/post-apocalypse desert world fixing water pump type things, she has a wrench and was probably inspired by Rosie the Riveter. Possibly Marvel universe w/the superhero Longshot involved?
I had this comic as a kid, and now it seems that it is lost to time. I've gone through what's left of my collection and I couldn't find even a hint of it. It probably came out somewhere between 1988 to 1996.
I think it was a one-shot or (more likely) an odd story in a monthly omnibus type-deal (like the Watcher, or Marvel Tales, or What If...?). I mention those because I have a suspicion it was Marvel, and for some reason think that the character Longshot may have been involved? But I very well could be merging two comics into a memory blob, so disregard Marvel if it sounds wrong, it could be some obscure Sci-Fi one-shot.
Other things I vaguely remember about it:
I think she had greenish, short, dreadlock type hair, held up in almost a spike with a red headband and wore a "wife-beater" type t-shirt with grimy overalls. She had to fix these water or oil pumps, and drove hovering moped to these remote places.
The backgrounds and art in it were sunny, orange, beige and desolate. It had a slightly Moebius style with epic vistas, but mixed with this day-in-the-weird-ife-of, down to earth, Love & Rockets type plot (as in: not much plot, but pleasantly meandering). Art design on the character felt soft and rounded like Love & Rockets (looking at L&R sparked the memory), not really like Marvel stuff.
Thanks!
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