There’s more Dee Dee merch now than there ever was when he was alive. I don’t know who benefits from that, but some of it is pretty cool. On the left, Dee Dee as he appeared in Tank Girl: Skidmarks, shown as he might have appeared on a custom Bulldog board. On the right, Dee Dee as the Powell ripper. Ripper clones are a dime a dozen, but Dee Dee being actually dead, well that makes this one special.
Source: DeeDeeRamone.com – Tank-Girl.com
Storyline: Tank Girl sets off on an illegal cross-continental race in a bid to win enough money for an incredibly expensive operation to bring her best friend Barney out of a skateboard-accident induced coma.
The Dee Dee Ramone storyline takes place in the 2009 issue #2.
Here’s the Dee Dee Ripper. Where did it come from?
5 comments
Rufus Dayglo
I drew Dee Dee in our Tank Girl comic both as a tribute, and because He, and his wife Barbara are/were my friends.
It was meant with love and respect to him.
Love and tanks,
Rufus
houseofneil
yeah, I was surprised by the amount of mercy on that site and the Johnny Ramone site too. The bobble head dolls are pretty damned cool actually. And I guess there;s a Johnny Ramone autobiography called Commando coming out.
JKP
Autobiography? Did he dictate from beyond the grave?
Gavin
Naw, the editors have been working on translating it to English from New Yorker. Took longer than expected.
houseofneil
mercy? It said merchandise. Damned auto spell!