The Nerd-becomes-cool-Superhero trope gets flipped on its head in Geek-Girl
Created and written by Sam Johnson (The Almighties, Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman) and illustrated by Carlos Granda (Grimm Fairy Tales, Charmed), in the 4-issue Geek-Girl Mini-Series we meet attractive, popular Maine college coed Ruby Kaye
– a girl who is used to getting anything she wants. But when she
overhears the resident college brainiac talking about super-tech glasses
he's invented and decides she wants them – her whole world gets turned upside down.
When
we're introduced to Ruby, she's a girl flying around in a super-hero
costume, looking for crime, chatting to her BFF Summer on her cellphone,
questioning if she's 'doing it right;' because she's been at this a
couple nights now and nothing's happening. And then something does
happen. Right in front of Ruby, Neon Girl – Maine's resident big-shot
Super-Heroine – is blasted through a billboard by a mysterious new
villain.
Ass-kicker
Neon Girl is taken off the map – and requiring a life-saving operation -
by this extremely powerful, enigmatic woman, Lightning Storm, who seems
to have come from nowhere,” says Johnson; “and Neon Girl wants to know
what Ruby's going to do about it.”
A
scared Ruby reveals how she got the glasses on a whim, how it was her
friend Summer who made her a costume and came up with a superhero name
for her – and how she doesn't really know what
she's doing,” Johnson continues. “But this isn't a point of view the
no-nonsense Neon Girl has any time for; her attitude is that 'Geek-Girl'
has super powers and sure dresses like a superheroine, so she needs to step up and stop Lightning Storm!” says Johnson.
And
while Ms. Kaye's trying to get her head around this, things have taken a
hit in her social life; thanks to a glitch in the glasses' programming
that's messed with her head and made her super-kultzy, the only evidence
she's provided her 'cooler-than-thou' clique of her powers has involved
knocking drinks over them – alienating her from all but Summer. Johnson
concludes, “So with a social life in tatters and a new status she
doesn't really understand, Ruby has to try and take on an extremely
dangerous force who's just hospitalised someone who's like a hundred
times better at super-heroing than she is. Let's see how that goes...”
Geek-Girl #1 is out now from Markosia in Regular, Digital and Variant editions, and available at www.geekgirlcomics.com and www.comixology.com
Praise for Geek-Girl:
"Amazingly
good debut issue with a new character that totally fits into today’s
younger generation of doing before thinking." Steven Leitman, Reading With a Flight Ring.
"A brilliant premise, an interesting character, and intriguing prospects for the future." -Chris Orr, Dress Like The Hulk.
“Geek-Girl puts the human back in super-human.” -Wayne Hall, Major Spoilers.
"This book is every geek guy's fantasy come true!” -Mark L. Miller, Ain't It Cool News
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