Geiger #13

History

Geiger #13 is the work of the series' founding creative team: writer Geoff Johns, artist Gary Frank, colorist Brad Anderson, and letterer Rob Leigh — the same quartet responsible for every major development in the Unnamed Universe since the original Geiger miniseries launched at Image in 2021. The series itself moved under the Ghost Machine banner when that creator-owned cooperative, co-founded by Johns, Frank, and peers including Bryan Hitch, Peter J. Tomasi, and Jason Fabok, was announced at New York Comic Con in October 2023 and began publishing through Image in late 2023 and into 2024. Ghost Machine operates on the principle that all founding creators jointly own and share in revenues from every property they develop there — described by the company as an industry first — which gave Johns and Frank the structural freedom to build the Unnamed as a multi-title universe where characters like Junkyard Joe migrate organically from their own miniseries into the pages of Geiger. The immediate editorial backdrop of issue #13 was the momentum generated by Geiger #10, which had sold out at the distributor level after debuting The Glowing Woman; issues #11 and #12 also sold out, meaning #13 arrived as the opening of year two with the series at a commercial and narrative high point.

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• Creative team: writer Geoff Johns, artist Gary Frank, colorist Brad Anderson, letterer Rob Leigh — the series' core team throughout.
• Designated by Ghost Machine as the first issue of the second year of the Geiger ongoing (internally catalogued as Geiger Vol. 2 #13).
• Junkyard Joe appears as a traveling companion of Tariq Geiger; in this issue Geiger believes Joe is an angelic messenger sent to him by his late son Marcus, who was a fan of the Junkyard Joe animated series — a key character-relationship beat for the robot soldier within the Geiger title.
• The Custodian — introduced in the Junkyard Joe miniseries as the antagonist who seeks to claim Joe's technology for a clandestine organization — returns here, explicitly linking the villain's history with Joe to the events unfolding around Geiger and Lewistown.
• The issue includes a military assault on Lewistown ordered by President Griffin, whose forces clash with both Geiger and Ashley Arden (The Glowing Woman); the battle allows Doctor Molotov to escape confinement, adding a second threat vector into the arc.
• Doctor Molotov reveals to Geiger that beneath Lewistown lies a rocket carrying an atomic bomb, and that Ash Arden intends for Geiger to detonate it — establishing the central stakes heading into the arc's climax.
• The issue was solicited with three cover variants: Cover A by Gary Frank and Brad Anderson, Cover B by Joe Prado and Wes Dzioba, and Cover C by Sean Von Gorman.
• A television adaptation of Geiger has been in development at Paramount Television Studios, with Geoff Johns attached as showrunner and Justin Simien as director/executive producer — providing a media context for the series' ongoing expansion.

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