“With great glasses comes great responsibility:” Ruby Kaye is GEEK-GIRL!
Written by Ian Cullen on January 5, 2010 – 10:30 am -
New up-and-coming writer Sam Johnson (Cabra Cini, Gold Town and the creator of comics’ über-cheesecake site, FANBABES) and artist Sally Thompson (Little Thoughts) introduce us to the world’s newest, klutziest super-heroine: Ruby Kaye a.k.a. Geek-Girl!
When ‘Little Miss Popular’ RUBY KAYE lands a pair of super-tech glasses–invented by brainiac college geek Trevor Goldstein–in a game of Strip Poker, she’s granted flight, super-strength, and–due to a flaw in the glasses’ programming–super-klutziness. “We’re used to it being the geek that stumbles upon super-powers and becomes cool as a result. Geek-Girl is a flip on that,” says Johnson.
A co-ed studying Public Relations at Acorn Ridge college in Maine, Ruby Kaye is something of an ‘it’ girl. She hangs with the in-crowd, is top of the party-invite list, and has guys queuing up. “But…” Johnson continues, “When she gets ahold of these glasses that she thinks are going to be oh-so-cool, she finds that what they do to her is seen as anything but by her clique–headed by the über-bitchy Karin Carpenter–who thinks Ruby’s lost it, big time.
“This is where Ruby finds out just how flimsy her ‘cool kid’-based friendships are,” says Johnson; “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.”
And Geek-Girl #0 is just the beginning for Ruby Kaye, says Johnson, “How she adapts to her new-found powers and clique-alienating klutziness just might be the making of her–as she learns that with great glasses comes great responsibility, and that geeky can be sexy!”
As well as featuring Geek-Girl’s 12-page introduction, Geek-Girl #0 also includes a 3-page preview of the in-the-works 4-issue Geek-Girl mini-series, illustrated by red hot artist Pablo Martinena. Johnson says, “I’ve been keeping Pablo’s pages to myself until now, and when you guys see them–and his smokin’ variant cover–jaws are gonna drop.”
“I’ve got huge plans for Geek-Girl, and it all begins here, in Geek-Girl #0,” concludes Johnson.
Geek-Girl #0 and Geek-Girl #0 Limited Variant Edition, published by FANBABES, are 16-pages b&w, with color cover, and priced $1.99 and $2.50 respectively. Out Now and available to purchase at www.geekgirlcomic.com and at IndyPlanet.com
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Tags: Geek Girl, Sally J. Thompson, Sam Johnson
Posted in Comic Book Corner, Press Releases | 1 Comment »
By Ed Catto on Jan 6, 2010 | Reply
Great stuff! Go Geek Girl!