Comic Review: Geek-Girl #0
The cover for Geek Girl#0’s third printing
Hot off the heels of another sellout printing comes a new photo variant cover for “Geek-Girl”, published under the Actuality Press banner. “Geek-Girl” #0, created and written by Sam Johnson featuring art by Sally Stone-Thompson is the story of Ruby Kaye, a popular college girl who manages to connive her way into a pair of glasses that grants her super-strength and flight but has one quirky glitch; the glasses make her super klutzy!
“Geek-Girl has been building up a following, including a large Facebook Group, since the first printing came out,” says creator/writer Sam Johnson (The Almighties, Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman), “and things are going to get taken to the next level for Ruby.” Johnson continues, “GG now has her own official model in Lady Larkin, who features on the new limited photo variant; and things are progressing with the Geek-Girl mini-series – and more work-in-progress is gonna be getting rolled out at the Facebook group as artist Carlos Granda continues his amazing work on it.”
Page from Geek-Girl#0.
The dialogue for “Geek-Girl” #0 flows easily enough and Sally Stone-Thompson’s art is comfortable and inviting with its manga influences. Special kudos to letterer Jaymes Reed, who really keeps the script punchy with enthusiastic bold strokes. There’s some proper foreshadowing of villains to come, with Johnson adding,“EVERYTHING changes for Ruby, with the effect the glasses have on her, she is gonna find out just how flimsy her ‘cool kid’-based friendships are; and by the end of Geek-Girl #0, she ain’t gonna have many left. Oh, but that’ll be the least of her problems, with who – or WHAT – then shows up!”
Geek-Girl #0 Photo Variant Cover.
Geek-Girl #0, written by Sam Johnson, illustrated by Sally Stone-Thompson, and published by Actuality Press is available now in Regular and Ltd. Photo Variant editions at www.geekgirlcomics.com