Geiger #2 Review!

Geiger #2 peeks into some of the talky Nate the Nuclear Knight teaming up Geiger fo his quest!  Re:cap - Geiger #1; the figure known as Geiger has been wandering a post-apocalyptic wasteland and ended up a town looking for a library. Bandits arrived, but Geiger finishes them off with the knight, who has been following him, watches as he leaves town. Geiger’s only companion is his two-headed wolf, Barney. He had seen Geiger defeat the King of Vegas and saw that he is his path to redemption. Soldiers sent by President Giffin attack them, but Geiger uses his radioactive rods to kill them. Later, Geiger will have to deal with this president. The knight says that he has heard of an another like the Glowing Man who were cured. Geiger has given up hope and walks into the desert wind. 

He finds a dandelion that makes him think of the flower in his daughter’s hair. This is the memory of his wedding. We see the knight set his sword down and without his armor apologizes to his mother and leaps at the blade! The sword is kicked aside by Geiger. He agrees to get help find the person who was cured. The knight is overjoyed and introduces himself as Nate, the Nuclear Knight. The sun starts setting and Nate tells Geiger that he was born in Dayton, Ohio fifteen years before the Unknown War. He mentions his mother was a schoolteacher and then Geiger says he doesn’t want to hear his life story. We see ove the desert night. 

Geiger #2 has a cover by interior artist, Gary Frank, of a wanted poster of the Glowing Man while his cloaked figure stands before it. “The Hunter and the Hunted” has a story by Geoff Johns. It begins with a splash page of Nate, the Nuclear Knight in his armor, raising his sword to strike! A kick off with action! In silhouette he chases after a boar, this makes me think of the pigs in Rook: Exodus. It is also chased by Barney, but makes it to its hidey hole. A shadow falls on it, Geiger behind the sun!, he sees the piglets in the hidey hole and sees with his geiger counter that they are not radioactive. Nate brings up the pig family and says they still have beans. We get a closeup of a sow and her two piglets, adorable. We get another splash pag of the duo roasting the boar on a spit, Nate gives cheers to it. 

On the road with some barren pines, Nate brings up besides leaving the pig family without a father, he has done terrible things. He thinks back to the days when he worked for the King of Vegas at Camelot, there was an elderly man with an eyepatch who was a card heat. He says, “Hit me!” with the nuclear knight behind him. Nate says he took his other eye with a fork, but Geiger says he doesn’t want to hear a confession. Obviously, Geiger likes to be on his own, Nate makes the analogy that any enemies will be like the pig, with Geiger as the fire. They see a community at the valley below them. This feels like The Last of Us. It is a Western town, damage to some of the roofs, with the citizens crowding around the sheriff’s office. 

The sheriff of Silverton says that there as been enough trouble. He continues that knights like Nate have bullied the townspeople. Nate looks down from the window to see their faces. Geiger says he only wants the name of the persons who was cured of being like himself. The search for a cure to a dangerous power is very Incredible Hulk. The sheriff says he can give their names and the direction they left in exchange for the barter set by Nate. The barter is to deal with a masked raider that has set off explosions to raid the town fo supplies. The mask is white with a black eye mask, moustache, and white teeth. The sheriff points out his broken leg trying to chase the raider. Just like Old West bounty hunters. He adds that the citizen mobs will go after Nate unless they accept. Geiger glares at the remorseful knight. 

Geiger glares at the remorseful knight. The duo share a meal on a rooftop, Nate brings up that they’ve been on watch for two days, and then the twenty nights the knights spent searching for Geiger. He says their first meeting was during their attack. He says now they are heroes which angers Geiger flaring his radioactive power, but this ends up burning his book. He has used his power without taking out his dampening rods which must be his anger that flares his radioactivity. Geiger says they are working only for information and that he doesn’t know what to do with a cure. He says it is all a waste of time and Nate starts blaming himself. Then, Barney starts growling and there is an explosion at a nearby building! The townspeople point out the Masked Raider racing across the rooftops. There is a little Robin Hood to him, except the body count he leaves behind. 

He rappels down to a motorrcyle and starts to drive away when Geiger drops down. The Masked Raider races off and Nate shouts about their bikes. A train is followed by the raider on his motorcycle. He sees the headlights of Geiger and Nate’s bikes. He leaps to the roof of a car tain. He is followed Geiger who buries a knife into the roof to keep in place. The Nuclear Knight slips off, but Geiger catches his arm in a closeup. Geiger struggles to pull up Nate in his armor and manages to throw him to the roof. The Master Raider throws a grenade that explodes over the duo. Geiger tells Nate to stay behind while he takes out his two dampening rods. A two panel spread has the Glowing Man leaping fom Nate as the Masked Raider tries to run! His radioactive boot hisses on the rooftop as the Masked Raider shoots his gun. The bullets sizzle on Geiger’s radioactive body! Geiger #2 continues his quest to lose radioactive curse with a twist on a story out of a Western! 

Five Dampening Rods out of Five! 

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