Geek-Girl #0 Variant Edition, Mr. Mash-Up #0 Digital Edition, and Geek-Girl T-Shirts OUT NOW!

Here's the Press Release... ;)

“With Great Glasses comes Great Klutziness - and Weird Super-Villains!”

Cult favorite Geek-Girl gets a new Variant edition of her #0 issue and a spin-off book this month from Actuality Press!

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!

And this is just the beginning of the changes the glasses will wreak on Ruby says creator/writer Sam Johnson (The Almighties, Cabra Cini: Voodoo Junkie Hitwoman); “The tech in the glasses that college chick ‘It Girl’ Ruby selfishly gets a hold of will have a profound effect on her - altering the very ways she thinks and acts. And ‘wreak’ is an appropriate choice of word, as the majority of her ‘cooler-than-thou’ clique - headed by the acid-tongued Karin Carpenter - ain’t gonna be too impressed with the changes the specs bring about in Ms. Kaye…

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“As Ruby, she hangs with the Maine in-crowd, is top of the party-invite list, and has guys queuing up. As Geek-Girl… not so much.”

Although on the surface of it this might not seem like exactly the best thing to ever happen to Ruby, ‘surface’ is another appropriate word choice, Johnson continues: “How Ruby adapts to her new-found powers and their clique-alienating effects just might be the making of her - as she learns that with great glasses comes great responsibility and that, ‘geek-chic’ aside, being truly geeky can be truly sexy!”

That’s the social side of things, but if there’s a super-heroine, there must also be super-villains! “There certainly are,” continues Sam, “Geek-Girl is going to find herself smack bang in the middle of Maine’s tights ‘n’ capes scene in a way that she’s really not ready for.

“Both Super-villains and super-heroes will have significant roles to play in the forthcoming mini-series; the bizarre villain known as Mr. Mash-Up is introduced to Ruby’s world in her #0 issue, and you can find out who he is and how he got there in spin-off book Mr. Mash-Up #0 (click here for Preview).

Geek-Girl #0, written by Sam Johnson, illustrated by Sally Stone-Thompson and published by Actuality Press is available now in $2.50 Regular and Variant Editions and $1.00 Digital/Kindle Editions – along with Mr. Mash-Up #0 and Official Geek-Girl T-Shirts – at www.geekgirlcomics.com

“This book is every geek guy’s fantasy come true.” Ain’t It Cool News.

Geek girls!

[UPDATED 9/20/12]
I came across a piece Sci-Fi Romance author Kaye Manro has written about her identity as a 'geek girl;' where she's invited other SFR writers to do the same, and used characters Deadpool-obsessed psychotic Dr. Ella Whitby and my own Ruby Kaye a.k.a. Geek-Girl to illustrate the feature.



For those not familiar with Dr. Whitby: In the current ongoing Deadpool series, Wade Wilson a.k.a. Deadpool: the Merc with a Mouth was committed to a psychiatric institution after trying to get himself killed (something nigh-impossible because of his super-charged healing factor) so he could be with the love of his life, the female embodiment of Death--and Whitby was assigned to treat him. It gradually emerged that Whitby--in her own way--was as nutty as Deadpool, had been storing dismembered & discarded parts of his body (since replaced by his healing factor) in her fridge, dressing up in a Deadpool costume and killing people in his name--all for love.

When Wade told Whitby he was in love with someone else, she killed herself. And Deadpool's currently dealing with the body parts she had in storage, as they merged and took on their own consciousness--becoming Evil Deadpool!



Whitby wasn't a good role model for geek girls, but my Geek-Girl's image, however, has come to be regarded as a positive one.

For those not familiar with GG, here's the skinny on her:

When hot college chick, '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.

That's the high concept. Something I had to field when the book came out was the argument that being a geek girl was about more than just wearing glasses and being klutzy. All I'll say about this is that the effects of the glasses aren't all immediately manifested. ;)

When we meet Ruby, she's got guys queueing up, but her circle of friends, or rather, clique--headed by the über-bitchy Karin Carpenter, are somewhat superficial--and they don't care for the transformation Ruby's tech-glasses bring about in her. Ruby, and her one true friend, Summer, however--are very excited about the powers they bring her!

I'm gratified that people dig Geek-Girl's look, I'm often coming across images of her randomly on people's Facebooks, and the first edition of Geek-Girl #0 went down pretty well. Illustrated by Sally Stone-Thompson--who also did the gorgeous cover, the #0 issue introduces Ruby to her powers, and we get to meet Karin, Summer and the rest of her clique--and a mysterious, and bizarre, villain.

There's a new edition of Geek-Girl #0 out now, which is available here, where you'll also find a Preview; and you can check out a Review of the book here! :)