1. Tank Girl

Love her or loathe her, you can’t deny this comic book chick is all woman. Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin’s creation first appeared in Deadline (1988), a UK magazine which featured upcoming comic talent.
Set in a post apocolyptic world, we follow our outlaw antiheroine’s adventures with her mutant kangaroo boyfriend and the rest of her strange gang.
With stories including her sexual quirks, substance abuse and of course violence, Tank Girl is every bit the female anarchist, partly due to the awesome style created by Jamie Hewlett, but mostly due to the attitude she has been given and their refusal to cast her in a more demure role.

2. Death

Created by Neil Gaiman and Mike Dringenberg for DC comic book series Sandman, Death is a life-like personification of death, in the somewhat unlikely guise of an attractive young gothic looking girl.
Her first solo titles Death: The High Cost of Living (1993), and Death: The Time of Your Life (1996) were among the first to be released under the new Vertigo branding, which became a great platform for brillianly quirky, mature titles.

3. Catwoman

On the surface Catwoman might seem like a traditional woman in comics, with her tight costume and saucy super villain ways, but over the years she has tranformed into a much more complicated woman and her character has spawned a variety of versions, both in comics and on screen.
The most enduring and well known of these is the secret identity of Selena Kyle from DC Comic’s Batman franchise. Originally a villian, in modern comics she is generally cast as an antiheroine, and is generally considered to be Batman’s most enduring love interest.

4. Jenny Sparks

Created by Warren Ellis, Jenny Sparks first appeared in Stormwatch and then went on to become a founding member of The Authority.
Known as The Spirit of the 20th century Jenny not only protects humanity, she is actually tied to the century itself, with her state of mind reflecting the mood of the current time.
Born in 1900, Jenny has not aged since 19, which leads to an interestingly atypical superheroine.
Although she is attractive she is anything but meek and her foul-mouthed, cynical, aggressive and sexually promiscious behaviour, along with her uniquely patriotic dress sense, certainly make her stand out.

5. Tulip O’Hare

Tulip O’Hare is a charecter from Preacher, a Vertigo series created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon.
Tulip is the love interest of Jesse Custer, a down-and-out preacher who has become possessed by the supernatural creature named Genesis in an incident which killed his entire congregation and flattened his church.
Custer and Tulip journey across the United States in a quest to find God, joined by a hard-drinking Irish vampire named Cassidy.
During this period Custer begins to discover the truth about his new powers, and his ability to command those who hear him.

6. Jean Grey/Phoenix

First appearing in 1963, Jean Grey is one of the five original members of the X-Men superhero team, and has played an important part in the long-running history of this series.
She has been known under the aliases Marvel Girl and later, Phoenix. Like the other X-Men, Jean Grey-Summers is a mutant, born with telepathic and telekinetic powers.
Due to her powers and position she has faced danger and death on many occasions and has even risen from the dead, as is implied by her name.

7. Judge Anderson

Judge Anderson first appeared in 2000AD as a supporting character in the Judge Dredd story, but quickly grew in popularity and was soon featured in her own series, Anderson: Psi Division.
Like Dredd, Anderson works as a Judge for Mega City One as a member of the Psi Division.
In addition to Andersons commitment to the division she has strong psychic powers, which enable her to sense approaching danger and foresee events of the near future.
She also has telepathy, which allows her to read other people’s minds and use mental attacks.

8. Silk Spectre II

Laurie Juspeczyk, known as Silk Spectre II, is a character from Watchmen, a twelve-issue DC comic book created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins.
The story, which takes place during an alternate history, parodies well known comic book character types to critique the superhero concept while also reflecting contemporary fears and anxieties.
In this reality, freelance superheros have been outlawed, so most costumed superheroes have either been forced into retirement or work for the govermment.

9. The Pro

The Pro is the lead character in a prestige format one-shot comic book of the same name, written by Garth Ennis, with pencils and lettering by Amanda Conner and inks by Jimmy Palmiotti. The Pro, a working prostitute who is given superhuman powers by the Viewer, is then reluctantly forced to join the extremely goody two shoes League of Honor and fight a variety of comedy villians. She quickly upsets the League with her course language, violent fighting style and tendancy to perform oral sex on fellow heroes.

10. Gail

The gorgeous Gail can be found in Frank Miller’s noir style comic, Sin City. Known as the Queen of Old Town, Gail is an Uzi-toting, dominatrix, prostitute who has become an authority figure in Old Town. This 6 foot tall fiesty female combines leather, fishnet stockings and studs to make a truly memorable impact.
She has a history with Dwight McCarthy, one of the other major characters in this comic. It’s clear that they have strong feelings for each other and she has been crucial in saving his skin.