Geeksville #0

Rich Koslowski and Gary Sassaman's Geeksville made the jump from small press to Image Comics in 2000, and this zero issue announces the transition with cheerful self-awareness right on the cover. The cover by Rich Koslowski depicts four characters inside a comic book shop — a girl in green, an enthusiastic heavyset redhead, an older bald fellow, and a goth-dressed woman — all engaged in a lively speech-bubble debate about whether buying a book from a creator who "sold out to the Man" is hypocritical. It's the kind of good-natured, insider humor that makes Geeksville feel like a love letter to comic shop culture, landing perfectly as a "New Millennium Big Fat Zero Issue.