Geek Girl is a 2016 British small press Superhero comic published by Markosia Enterprises. Geek Girl is the creation of writer Sam Johnson with Carlos Granda doing the artwork.
Set in the US state of Maine, the titular superheroine is a college girl named Ruby Kaye who ends up winning a pair of technologically enhanced eyeglasses from an inventor in a strip poker game. Skeptical of the inventor's claims of the glasses endowing its wearer with superpowers, Ruby tries on the glasses and find that they do indeed work. She even punches out an attacker with her newfound strength. With the help of her fashion designer friend, Summer, Ruby gets a costume and becomes the superheroine "Geek Girl".
Geek Girl is later out on patrol when she encounters one of Maine's resident superheroes, Neon Girl, battling the enigmatic villainess Lightning Storm. Lightning Storm ends up beating Neon Girl so badly that the latter gets hospitalized. Geek Girl then gets charged with finding and stopping Lightning Storm. And the adventures go on from there, with Geek Girl adjusting to her abilities and dealing with a variety of rogues.
This comic book contains examples of the following tropes:
- Action Girl: Geek Girl is this as she'll physically fight it out with her super strength.
- Alliterative Name: Ruby Kaye picks up the superhero name Geek Girl.
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: Maine's other resident superhero, Pit Bull.
- Badass Bookworm: The entire theme of her character is that she's a nerd and a superhero. Her superhero name says it all.
- Beware the Superman: Lightning Storm, who obtained electrical powers after a lifetime of bullying, very quickly becomes the superhuman equivalent of a mass shooter, destroying anything that annoys her or gets in her way, even other supervillains.
- Clothes Make the Superman: Geek Girl gets her powers from a pair of eyeglasses.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Ruby when she's Geek Girl. Justified in that she's not fully used to the powers bestowed by her glasses.
- Curb-Stomp Battle:
- Thanks to her Super-Strength, Geek Girl makes short work of some opponents like two costumed villains robbing a store.
- Lightning Storm establishes what kind of threat she is by instantly frying Neon Girl (who spends most of the first arc of the comic in a coma and all of it with third-degree burns), breaking one of Pit Bull's arms and going on a rampage at the climax in which she hurts a lot of civilians and disintegrates two villains who approach her trying to recruit her in the time it takes her to say "you're annoying".
- Hero of Another Story: Maine's other resident superheroes, Neon Girl and Pit Bull. Implied especially with Pit Bull, as he talks to a bar crowd about villains he battled.
- Hero Killer: Downplayed with Lightning Storm; she simply injures Neon Girl and Pit Bull so bad that they are hospitalized rather than killed.
- Hollywood New England: Set in the state of Maine
- I Need a Freaking Drink: Ruby is fond of going to bars to drink. Pit Bull seems to be this as he openly declares he wants to get a beer first before going out to fight crime.
- Most Common Superpower: Geek Girl shows plenty of cleavage.
- Primary-Color Champion: Geek Girl wears red and yellow.
- Shock and Awe: Lightning Storm is capable of throwing out electricity to the degree she can vaporize normal humans and even Neon Girl (who is a Flying Brick) suffers third-degree burns to her entire body and spends the rest of the series showing them after recovering from her coma.
- Stripperific: Geek Girl's outfit - cleavage? Check. Exposed midriff? Check. Underwear of Power? Check. Justified as the outfit was designed by Ruby's fashion designer friend, Summer; Summer even lampshades the outfit's sexiness.
- Symbol Swearing: Plenty of it.
