With public interest growing, Penguin, the largest publishing company in Britain, bought the rights to collect the strips as a book, and before long, "Tank Girl" had been published in Spain, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, Argentina, Brazil and Japan, with several United States publishers fighting over the licence. Finally Dark Horse Comics won, and the strips were reprinted in colour beginning in '91, with an extended break in '92, and ending in September '93. A graphic novel-length story named "Tank Girl: The Odyssey" was also published in '95, written by Peter Milligan and loosely inspired by Homer's "Odyssey", Joyce's "Ulysses" and a considerable quantity of junk TV.