Review: Geek-Girl #0

Geek-Girl is a story about Ruby Kaye who wins a pair of high-tech glasses in a game of strip poker and with those glasses she not only gains super-strength and the ability to fly, but a glitch in the programming of the glasses make her also super clumsy!

When first reading the synopsis I was intrigued, mostly because I happen to love the badgrrl/goodgrrl-genre in comics. And here is this fanboy named Sam Johnson who is not afraid of admitting he has that same tendency and even went on to start a comic named Geek-Girl and publishing house Fanbabes. From that moment on you just know that you are stepping into the “tongue-in-cheek meets tits & ass” world. At least it found a good home, where I am concerned!

You also enter into the world of a fanboy who has a drive to get this project up-and-running and it clearly shows with all the effort he has been putting into getting Geek-Girl into the face of the cyberspace, with bloggings, forum threads and appearances on Comicspace, Facebook, Myspace and a website to boot!

But all in all the most important question is the following: did the drive of Sam Johnson win the attention span of the reader with Geek-Girl #0? Well, that is totally up to the reader of course. On my side I acknowledge the strange and off-panel way to get a hold of the super-glasses, as well as the fact that a true answer as to why Ruby feels the need to become a superheroine at all. She is one of the ‘top breed’ party girls and that In-Crowd is not exactly known (as a general view that is) to be high-strung on saving something other then their nail polish, good looks and appearance, let alone fighting bad guys, saving other people and/or the world! I also see that this issue #0 lacks an artist that can make the “tongue-in-cheek meets tits & ass” feel come true.

An artist that however can indeed make that special feeling come true is the regular artist that starts with the full-color four-issue miniseries coming from Fanbabes soon in the form of Pablo Martinena, which can also be previewed in Geek-Girl #0. A good move of Fanbabes to add this preview of that upcoming issue to make sure that #1 can add to the excitement you get when reading #0. Excitement? Yes, indeed. The excitement is for the writing, the drive and the effective set-up of Ruby and friends despite the flaws. This is a fan project and that shows. But I have mentioned drive and that enthusiasm can also be found in reading the pages as well as through the hands of Sally J. Thompson (artist on GG #0), who made a good effort in getting the story out there and that is something commendable for sure.

Credits

Words: Sam Johnson
Art: Sally J. Thompson

Publisher: Fanbabes
Price: $1.99
Release Date: Nov 21, 2009

Tags: Geek-Girl, Sam Johnson

About the Author

Richard Boom Richard is the driving force behind Comics for Sinners. His love and admiration for female comic book characters is virtually unparalleled, which immediately explains his biggest 'sin': his Hot Mummy fetish. This sketchbook theme is philogynistic in nature and even the source of his WIP comic book series "The Sisterhood".