Geiger #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeGeiger (2024) #2 is a structurally important early chapter in the Ghost Machine era of the Geiger mythology, deepening the post-nuclear-war road-trip framework that Johns and Frank established in issue #1 and cementing the ongoing quest to cure Tariq Geiger's radioactive condition as the series' spine. The issue introduces the town-based 'help the sheriff, earn a lead' story engine that the series would use to build out its wasteland world, while steadily escalating the threat of the pursuing mercenary known as the ElecTrician — who becomes the primary antagonist of this story arc. As one of the first ongoing titles under the creator-owned Ghost Machine collective, it represents a deliberate break from superhero genre conventions by Johns, Frank, and their collaborators, forging a shared universe grounded instead in post-apocalyptic genre fiction. Its place inside 'The Unnamed Saga' ties it to a larger interconnected storytelling project whose scope and creator-ownership model were novel in mainstream American comics.
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Geiger (2024) #2 was published on May 8, 2024, by Image Comics under the Ghost Machine imprint, written by Geoff Johns with art by Gary Frank, colors by Brad Anderson, and lettering by Rob Leigh. It arrived one month after the series debut on April 3, 2024 — the opening salvo of Ghost Machine's April rollout of ongoing titles following the 64-page Ghost Machine #1 anthology in January 2024. Ghost Machine itself was announced at New York Comic Con on October 12, 2023, as a first-of-its-kind creator-cooperative media company in which all founding creators jointly own, operate, and share in profits from every property — a structural departure from the work-for-hire arrangements Johns and Frank had spent their careers under at DC Comics. The ongoing Geiger series was positioned as the flagship of 'The Unnamed' shared universe within Ghost Machine, and issue #2 shipped alongside a second printing of the sold-out issue #1, with Gary Frank citing it as 'the most action-packed Geiger we've ever done.'
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- Published May 8, 2024, by Image Comics (Ghost Machine imprint); 32 pages, rated T+.
- Creative team: writer Geoff Johns, artist Gary Frank, colorist Brad Anderson, letterer Rob Leigh.
- Cover A by Gary Frank & Brad Anderson; Cover B and a 1:50 retailer-incentive foil variant by Ivan Reis & Danny Miki.
- The issue advances Tariq 'The Glowing Man' Geiger's quest to find a cure for his nuclear-powered condition, accompanied by his two-headed wolf Barney and a newly introduced companion, Nate — a former Nuclear Knight who was inspired by Geiger's own acts of heroism.
- Plot engine: Geiger's crew must help a local sheriff capture a Masked Raider pillaging a wasteland town in exchange for intelligence on someone reportedly cured of the same radioactive condition.
- The ElecTrician — a sadistic mercenary who becomes the primary antagonist of the first arc — is shown closing in on Geiger, building sustained serial tension that resolves in the arc's climax around issue #5.
- Issue #2 shipped the same week as the second printing of the sold-out Geiger (2024) #1, reflecting strong early demand for the relaunched series.
- The series is part of Ghost Machine's 'The Unnamed' shared universe, which also encompasses Junkyard Joe, Redcoat, and other titles — all published through Image Comics under a creator-ownership model announced at NYCC 2023.
- A television adaptation of Geiger was already in development at Paramount TV with director Justin Simien attached at the time of this issue's release.
- Issues #1–6 of this volume, plus a story from the Geiger 80-Page Giant, were collected as Geiger Vol. 2: The Nuclear Knight trade paperback (February 5, 2025).
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