Geek-Girl #7 - Markosia Enterprises

GEEK-GIRL No. 7, September 2020

Focusing heavily upon some of the party games taking place at “fancy dress club nite Freakee Kiki’s”, this twenty-one page periodical’s plot arguably does a good job in highlighting the animosity bubbling beneath the surface between Ruby Kaye and her so-called friends Karin, Stacey and Jennifer. Indeed, straight from this comic’s opening, when the Maine College student shows her new team-mate The Minger a selfie of the three girls dressed as “the super-bitches”, it is clear that an evening packed full of over-indulgent alcoholic drinking and somewhat bizarre circus contests is probably not going to go all that well for the super-hero.

Of course, that isn’t to say that the self-centred trio don’t deserve everything Kaye later verbally gives them, considering that one of their group comes purposely dressed as Ruby’s arch-nemesis with the intention of having “some fun in the Feats of Strength” challenge, and another is simply rude towards poor Summer James for apparently having the audacity to be wearing Geek-Girl’s costume. But by the end of the night’s Airing of Grievances it seems reasonably clear that both Karin and Stacey are undoubtedly going to plan some sort of revenge upon their drunk “girl-friend” after she falsely accuses them of grabbing her pair of “power-inducing super-tech glasses” in front of a packed night club audience; “-- That stuff about slapping her, that wasn’t her. It was that Monster Guy’s fake Karin. Now they’ll really think I’m crazy…”

However, for those readers more interested in entrepreneur Johnny Carlyle’s creation of The Kaye Foundation than the titular character’s increasingly poor relationship with her college companions, Sam Johnson’s script for Issue Seven of “Geek-Girl” does still include a brief look at Digger Mensch’s equally poor rapport with his downright shady criminal chums. Badly hung over following his own bout of binge-drinking at some less than salubrious underground venue, the mechanically-limbed builder is less than impressed when he wakes to find one of his unsavoury associates has defaced his shirt whilst he slept, and having taken his revenge upon the semi-conscious vandal suddenly seems potentially destined to turn his back upon his felonious past for good.

The regular cover art of "GEEK-GIRL" No. 7 by Jason Hehir & Chunlin Zao