The Adventures of Dr. McNinja

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
McNinja in mid leap Dr. McNinja atop Gordito's pet raptor, Yoshi
Author(s)	Chris Hastings, inked by Kent Archer, colored by Carly Monardo (2008-2009), colored by Anthony "Nedroid" Clark (2009-2010)
Website	http://www.drmcninja.com/
Current status/schedule	Weekly: Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Launch date	Summer 2004: Issue 1/2
Publisher(s)	Raptor Bandit Industries
Genre(s)	Action, comedy, superhero

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja is a webcomic written and drawn by Chris Hastings and inked by Kent Archer. Published three times a week on its own website, it features the fictional adventures of a character named Dr. McNinja, a thirty-five-year-old doctor who is also a ninja. Dr. McNinja is highly story-driven, with twenty- to sixty-page issues. The first story was published in the summer of 2004 as a one-off, and the comic has been in regular publication since late 2005. The site also sells Dr. McNinja merchandise.

The Adventures of Dr. McNinja is a member of Dayfree Press. An August 31, 2006 announcement in the news section of the Dr. McNinja website indicates that an exclusive monthly installment of Dr. McNinja will appear in the British magazine .net.

History

In 2003, when Chris Hastings was a forum member of Something Awful Forums, his screen name was "Dr. McNinja". During a drawing contest involving a characterization of user screen names, Hastings drew an image of Dr. McNinja behind his desk with a sword on his wall and a speech bubble reading, "Should anyone need the services of a ninja or a doctor, my office is always open." Shortly afterward, Chris made a full-length comic about McNinja for an art class (here ).

Strips were presented in a high contrast black-and-white, and then for a period of time were shaded digitally. Starting on 11 August 2008, comics began to be drawn in full color, provided by Carly Monardo. On February 9, 2009, Monardo stepped down to focus on her job on The Venture Bros. Anthony "Nedroid" Clark was chosen to replace Monardo.

Characters

Dr. McNinja, the eponymous character. His first name is never given, and cannot be revealed as per the wizard. He is a cliché ninja, with the exception that he is a practicing medical doctor as well. He has amazing speed and agility, plus superhuman strength (the latter of which is attributed to the fact that he is a doctor as well as a ninja). He studied under the clone of Benjamin Franklin in medical school, and his medical expertise ranges from general medicine to podiatry and dentistry. He is usually seen wearing slacks, a button-down shirt and tie, a lab coat, a ninja mask, and a stethoscope around his neck.

While a skilled superhero, Dr. McNinja has several personality quirks. He desperately wants to be Batman and has obsessively studied his movies, comics and TV shows to that effect (despite this, his personality is rather more similar to Spider-Man in terms of lighthearted banter), even telling others he trained with Batman (which is patently false, even in the McNinja universe) and owning a pair of Batman pajamas. He is also highly sensitive to criticism by his parents, who are disappointed their ninja son is wasting his time as a doctor. The fact that he is both a doctor and a ninja has also caused several problems for him, chiefly due to his twin obligations to heal and to kill.

Gordito Delgado, a 12-year-old Mexican boy whom Dr. McNinja took on as a sidekick at the end of the third storyline. He was able to grow a full moustache with sheer force of will due to his desire to become a "man", as he puts it. Normally, Gordito is the only person Yoshi lets ride him. He uses two revolvers and is an excellent shot. Gordito inherited his guns from his father, who was assassinated by a P.E.T.A. activist. He is also a decent hand-to-hand fighter, besting one of Dark Smoke Puncher's robots after using all of his bullets up.

His last name, Delgado, was revealed on his grave stone on Hastings' April Fool's page. His first name means "fattie" in Spanish (according to the comic, it means "fat little piggy"), while the last name is the Spanish adjective for "thin". In "The Dark Tower" series, which Gordito has quoted and is familiar with, one of the primary characters shares the surname Delgado.

Judy, a large gorilla and Dr. McNinja's secretary and receptionist. She is extremely strong and can not only understand spoken English but also read and write. She can also communicate with sign language, but Dr. McNinja cannot understand sign language and never knows what Judy is saying. Judy is also seen to be able to drive a car and operate earthmoving equipment.

She apparently understands at least a few medical procedures. When Dr. McNinja was possessed by an ear ghost, she knew enough to use the correct medical tools to remove it. She also transfused Dr. McNinja's blood soon after he was shot by several of Frans Rayner's ninja henchmen.

Benjamin Franklin II, clone of the original. Some time ago he cheated death through cloning, earning the interest of Death himself, and has spent the intervening years attempting to cure death. Ben taught Dr. McNinja various schools of medicine, and considers him his best student. He was killed (again) by Frans Rayner's drug-enhanced ninja, but has returned to life thanks to his "Eternal Life Serum" which he ingested prior to his second death. However, as a side effect, bodies in graves near his returned to life as zombies, including the original Benjamin Franklin. The serum was apparently created in collaboration with Dracula, explaining the problems it has caused.

This serum gave Ben the blood of a Headless Horseman. He became required to ingest hair to prevent him from turning into a Headless Horseman, but on a flight to Transylvania, he ran out of hair to eat, and transformed into a Horseman, crashing the plane. He rode out of the plane wreck on the horse that was stalking him. He appears on the Moon after Dracula summons him to his Moon Base. Dracula questions Franklin about the afterlife, and becomes upset when Franklin reveals that he has only been to purgatory, "A restaurant with poor service...the worst." Dracula throws Franklin's head to earth, and Franklin is seen chasing after it. In the Epilogue Part II it is explained that, like all ghosts, a Headless Horsemen is bound to our realm by its last unfinished affairs. The last thing Benjamin Franklin II had been doing before he was killed by Franz Rayner's men was going to get pizza with Gordito so Dr. McNinja brings a pizza to the graveyard which transforms into Franklin's missing head. In Epilogue III, Benjamin Franklin II returned to the Purgatory restaurant with a resigned, but not altogether unhappy look on his face.

Yoshi, a Velociraptor who wrecked McNinja's office in a previous storyline. McNinja, upon finding out that similar raptors had riders, claimed the unconscious raptor for his own. He was named by Dr. McNinja after the Nintendo character Yoshi, since Yoshi serves as Mario's steed. Yoshi does not like having McNinja ride him. Gordito can ride him with no trouble, but Yoshi will only allow Dr. McNinja to ride him when Gordito is in danger.

Yoshi is also a valuable fighter. He has engaged Frans' drug ninja in a major battle and won. He also attacked the zombies roaming Dr. McNinja's hometown since dinosaurs are immune to zombies (see episode 5, page 28)

He has served as comic relief several times, such as engaging in a battle with Judy over hot dogs (which Yoshi ate, despite Judy clearly marking them).

Yoshi can be more accurately described as a Deinonychus or Utahraptor, and should be portrayed with feathers, but Chris Hastings has stated in the alt-text of "There is a Raptor in My Office" on page 7 that this confuses his brain and he is just going by the Jurassic Park version.

Dan McNinja, Dr. McNinja's father. A ninja with an impressive moustache. He is very talented as a ninja, but his conduct as a father is notably average- or below it, though he's generally better than his wife is. He is disappointed at his son's choice to be a doctor, but he isn't as hard on his son about it as his wife.

He sometimes works with the FBI, as seen when he aided them in getting rid of a dangerous drug that gives people ninja-like abilities. He is a powerful ninja, perhaps the doctor's equal in combat, and uses bizarre tactics; one of his favorites is to set himself on fire so other people can't catch him. He can also, oddly, suck poison out of food with his body and store it in his eyes, where he shoots it out later, similar to a horned lizard's ability to shoot blood from its eyes (although Dan claims it is "like a toad"). He, his wife Mitzi, and their son 'Dark Smoke Puncher' live together in a house located deep in a cave.

Mitzi McNinja, Dr. McNinja's mother. Like Dan, she is a ninja who disapproves of her son's choice to be a doctor- unlike Dan, she is exceptionally angry about it, and lets him know at every possible opportunity. She is one of the best ninja in the family, and guards the entrance to their home. Every time Dr. McNinja wants to visit, he must either sneak past or fight her. She has expertise with both pickled beets and precisely aimed demolitions (though according to Gordito, the beets taste absolutely terrible; possibly from them being poisoned though Dark Smoke Puncher states that they were always bad-tasting).

Sean "Dark Smoke Puncher" McNinja, Dr. McNinja's younger brother. He is named after the author's brother, Sean Hastings. His attire consists of a mix of ninja gear and modern gangster styles of clothing. Dr. McNinja openly mocks both his name and his poser-like ways, and even Dan admits that his skills are inferior to those of Dr. McNinja, though this is probably because he is younger. However, it seems that he works well with robots. In Dr. McNinja's letter to Gordito after sending him near his parents place, he implies that the deadly robot animal guards that have been modified by Sean are more dangerous than the average deadly robot animal guard. He recently confided to Gordito that his 'gangster' attitude is mostly a front, to hide his geeky interests. He is a fan of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series.

King Radical, "the most radical man in the Radical Land". A crime boss that dresses in a style similar to a stereotypical king, or the Burger king, with sunglasses and tattoos on his fingers that read "MOST RAD." He is the head of the Cumberland Mafia, and has invoked Dr. McNinja's ire by blowing his office up as retribution for his refusal to treat one of Radical's thugs. In a secret epilogue page, it is discovered that he had also hired one of McNinja's ex-girlfriends to sabotage his most recent mission and secure for him a book detailing highly advanced technology. In an ironic twist, despite antagonising McNinja and fulfilling the basic role of an arch-nemesis, Radical is technically not a villain as all his activities are intentionally beneficial to Cumberland. However, since his operations are performed illegally, McNinja persists in trying to defeat him and take down his operations.

Story arcs

Dr. McNinja's story has many absurd plot twists, and often makes allusions to outside works, most prominently Dr. McNinja's quote of "What would Batman do?" Starting with "So What Is A McNinja?", each page also uses alt text to add background information and in-jokes, such as the author comparing the comic's visual style to Frank Miller's comic Sin City.

Dr. McNinja vs. McDonald's

Dr. McNinja must face off against McDonald's, which happens to be a corporation of robot workers run by evil mime Ronald McDonald. McDonald releases a new product, the McNinja burger, which contains large amounts of methane and nitrogen, since a corporate advisor mentions that "kids like farts.....and ninjas." Naturally, the product offends Dr McNinja, who hunts out McDonald at a local McDonald's filled with "Burger Zombies" and the McDonald's robot workers. McNinja finally enters a showdown in McDonald's "Final Boss Lair." After the clown stops McNinja's ninja stars with a mime shield, McNinja has "no problem fighting fire with fire" with a mime rocket launcher. Despite being written and presented first, the website urges readers not to read this story first and instead, to read the the first two "official" issues before reading this one.

Meet the Doctor and His Friendly Staff

The first official comic: Dr. McNinja is called upon to investigate a young boy's illness. The boy, whose condition causes him to frequently vomit large amounts of maple syrup, is soon diagnosed as Paul Bunyan's Disease. The boy then turns into a giant lumberjack and bursts through the ceiling, enraged at how many trees stand within the area. Dr. McNinja infiltrates a facility (rather violently) to get a lotion that removes the lumberjack facial hair permanently, thus returning him to normal. Judy also fights off a pair of poachers that hunt giant lumberjacks for a living. Ten years later, the former patient's girlfriend leaves him due to his inability to grow a beard, and he swears revenge on McNinja.

So What Is a McNinja?

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Dr. McNinja slaughters pirates in "So What is a McNinja?"

Dr. McNinja returns home for "Katanakka" (a Ninja holiday celebrated on the same day as Thanksgiving so "that we still get the day off"). After a heated discussion with his mother and father, McNinja storms out and (after getting drunk) betrays his family to a crew of pirates. After sobering up and revelation through hallucination, Dr. McNinja storms off again to save his family and restore his own honor at the same time.

There Is a Raptor in My Office

Dr. McNinja comes to work and finds that a Velociraptor has wrecked his office. A trio of raptor-riding banditos attack Dr. McNinja in order to try to get their raptor back, but are foiled and retreat. The following day, Dr. McNinja gets an anonymous tip on Myspace, and follows the leads to a self-obsessed villain the riders dubbed "Ab Man," upon whom they have sworn vengeance for "stealing their leader's internet girlfriend". Dr. McNinja assists them. Battle ensues, but a mysterious third party shooter, hinted to be the weather reporter shown earlier in the story arc, claims the final shot. Afterwards, the riders depart as promised, but leave Gordito in McNinja's care.

D.A.R.E to Resist Ninja Drugs and Ninja Violence

A two-issue story involving a drug that heightens one's ninja skills, the McNinja family's attempts to handle the situation, Dr. McNinja's training of Gordito, a clone of Benjamin Franklin who is working to make eternal life medically possible, and an evil Danish martial arts film star named Frans Rayner. Rayner is plotting to kill Dr. McNinja with the aid of his midget henchman, Knickerbockers, in hopes of baiting McNinja's father into the open. The goons succeeded in dispatching both Dr. McNinja and Benjamin Franklin, resulting in Dr. McNinja splitting into two different spirits (one for his ninja half and one for his doctor half). However, when Death came to claim their souls, the two work together to dispatch Death and reunite in their old body.

The second half of this storyline involves Dr. McNinja's return to life and mission to get revenge against Rayner and his ninja minions. Teaming up with his father (disguised as a pirate to evade detection) Dr. McNinja synthesizes a drug to temporarily rob ninja of their abilities, and launches an attack on Rayner's mansion. The entire story is an homage to 80's action movies. Specifically, 80's films that involved ninjas as disposable enemies, as this is referred to as "The Ninja Holocaust of 1980", which Rayner was responsible for, of course.

Revenge of the Hundred Dead Ninja

Focused around the consequences of the events in D.A.R.E. It is a spoof and homage to horror movies with an opening sequence that parodies the video clip to Michael Jackson's Thriller. It's also revealed that Dr. McNinja's home city of Cumberland, Maryland, has an anti-zombie defense system which was put in place by Dr. McNinja and Mayor Chuck Goodrich.

I Told You That Story So I Could Tell You This One

While Gordito is sent away to train with Dr. McNinja's family, Dr. McNinja continues to search out the cause of the zombie outbreak. Also, a superhero called Beeman is shot to death and ends up in Purgatory where he has a conversation with the deceased Ben Franklin.

Here, we learn that Ben completed (at least with enough confidence to ingest it) his eternal life serum, and Dr. McNinja digs up Ben's grave to pull a very thirsty resurrected Franklin from his coffin. Currently, Ben's original body (circa 1700's) is a "deanimated" zombie, shot in the head by Gordito.

Spooky Stuff

The origin of Gordito's mustache is revealed. Dr. McNinja observes that the resurrected Benjamin Franklin is "an undead creature who feeds on hair and is being tormented by visitors from the spirit realm." Franklin had unwittingly obtained his eternal life serum from Dracula, so the Doctor investigates at the Red Cross headquarters, run by vampires. A vampire reveals that Ben is now part Headless Horseman, with hair consumption serving as the trigger preventing him from transforming fully. Dr. McNinja and Ben Franklin take a plane for Transylvania to confront Dracula. Meanwhile, Sean and Gordito are being trained by Dan and Mitzi for their upcoming battle with the Ghost Wizard, which The Catholic Church has hired them to defeat. On the plane, Ben hungers for hair, but Dr. McNinja cannot get any in time, so Franklin is transformed into a full Headless Horseman. The plane crashes and Ben Franklin rides away.

Punch Dracula

Dan, Mitzi, Dark Smoke Puncher, and Gordito isolate and fight the Ghost Wizard in a stolen submarine. Meanwhile, Dr. McNinja is teleported to Dracula's moon base from Transylvania. Dracula explains that he made Franklin into a headless horseman so he could gain knowledge of the afterlife. When Franklin returns with insufficient information Dracula decides to kill Dr. McNinja, hoping that he can defy death like he did in D.A.R.E. and return with more information. In response, Dr. McNinja punches Dracula and tries to escape. Dracula corners McNinja and reveals that he controls the Ghost Wizard. He threatens to command the Wizard to use a secret fourth power on Gordito, but due to the vagueness of Dracula's command the Ghost Wizard possesses Dark Smoke Puncher instead. Gordito saves Dark Smoke Puncher and destroys the Ghost Wizard. Dr. McNinja dons a spacesuit and rides a robot copy of Dracula back to Earth. Some time afterward, McNinja goes to Ben Franklin II's grave to help the spirit conclude its earthly business. After obtaining a new head, Franklin fades away and returns to Purgatory.

Monster Mart

The first volume to be published in color opens with Dr. McNinja, Gordito, and Yoshi defeating and curing a young girl with Paul Bunyan's disease. Martin Monster, a former friend of Dr. McNinja, shows up requesting his help, stating that he has trouble controlling his transformations into a giant ogre-like monster. Dr. McNinja advises Martin that his problems are likely stress-related. Soon afterward McNinja's office is triggered for explosion, and the culprits implicate Martin. Martin admits that he joined the Cumberland Mafia (led by King Radical) as hired muscle to pay off a debt, although he was not involved in blowing up McNinja's office. King Radical had his men do so in retaliation for turning away a suspicious patient in the mafia. McNinja and Gordito help Martin in concocting a plan to remove a rival gang. When Dr. McNinja and Gordito are captured by the rival gang (led by the humanoid lobster man, The Robster), Martin becomes enraged and regains his power, destroying the enemy gang. In the aftermath of the fight, King Radical appears to pronounce Martin's debt settled.

Death Volley

In return for rebuilding his office, the Doctor agrees to accompany NSA agent Bearclaw in an NSA mission to heal a champion tennis player - the tennis player is battling a temple that will destroy the world if he loses. En route, their plane is ambushed by McNinja's ex-girlfriend Hortense, hired to stop him. She throws Bearclaw off the plane and kills the pilot before escaping, leaving Dr. McNinja to land the plane at the island. He gains entrance into the temple, wherein he must enter the Shrine of the Silver Monkey and defeat a Temple Guard inhabiting the armor he needs to continue. When he reaches the tennis player, Hortense appears and shoots him non-fatally. She admits that she was hired anonymously to hinder McNinja's progress, leading to the two of them to assume she was hired by his parents in an attempt to set them up romantically. The temple activates, and the injured tennis player orders one of them to play against the machine. Hortense calls "not it", and McNinja is left to face the machine. He fails spectacularly, being aced four times in the one-game match, and must flee with Hortense and the wounded tennis player as the temple collapses. As it turns out, the temple was not to destroy the world, but to preserve the secrets of the now-extinct Inocktek Indian culture that built the temple - when the machine was not defeated, the temple would self-destruct and reveal a book that details their extensive technological progress. The book is later revealed to be "twelve hundred pages on how great tennis is" and is completely worthless. The island then obliterates itself in what appears to be a nuclear explosion, removing any chance to study the ruins left there.

Meanwhile, Gordito and Judy supervise the rebuilding of McNinja's office, and thwart the attempts of a "half-plumber, half-spy" to install government monitoring equipment in the office. He ends up succeeding to infiltrate the office by revealing his true form - an incredibly tiny man with a small room built into McNinja's diploma.

After the next story arc began, a "Secret Epilogue" was posted, revealing that Hortense was actually working for King Radical. When McNinja wasn't looking, she swapped the real book, which did in fact, reveal their secrets, with a fake that he wrote - an easy task, as he was the one that taught the Inocktek their language.

Doc Gets Rad

After picking up Dark Smoke Puncher from school, Dr. McNinja becomes involved in a chase with King Radical, but fails due to the superior mobility of Radical's motorcycle, compared to McNinja's sedan. McNinja decides he needs a motorcycle of his own. Soon, a man crashes his rainbow-striped motorcycle in McNinja's parking lot, with seemingly no memory of what happened and a desire to get rid of the motorcycle he was riding. McNinja quickly claims the motorcycle for himself. Dr. McNinja then decides to practice using the motorcycle while at the same time stopping a train robbery (stealing an entire train car loaded with "real" Mountain Dew) by Radical's men. He stops the robbery by killing the occupants of one helicopter, resulting in all of the helicopters colliding and exploding, and the dew crashing into a river. King Radical is informed that the heist failed, and is intrigued by the fact that Dr. McNinja got a bike of his own, but when the bike is described to him he starts to panic and goes into hiding. That night Dr McNinja has a dream in which he rides a white unicorn with rainbow stripes. Images of a the former owner mistreating the unicorn flash before McNinja, as the previous owner suddenly regains his memory and runs into the street asking for forgiveness. In his dream, McNinja defeats a giant ogre with the appearance of the former owner. The next morning McNinja finds the former owner sliced in half on the street outside his office, and assumes King Radical is to blame. McNinja neglects his doctoring duties to hunt down King Radical. At the end of the day he is unsuccessful, but suddenly the bike tells him that it knows how to find Radical. It is revealed that the bike was originally a unicorn from the Radical Land (the origin of King Radical) because King Radical banished him to our world centuries ago. The unicorn was transformed into a motorcycle because the real world couldn't process his splendor, so it transformed him into the "closest thing". Meanwhile, King Radical in hiding is informed that a frost wizard is attacking his skate park. He believes him to be an old foe, yet it turns out to be Dark Smoke Puncher used as bait to lure him out. Dr. McNinja shows up on the motorcycle (which is revealed to be named Sparklelord), telling King Radical to get on his bike and take a head start, because his "steed desires a chase". Dr McNinja chases King Radical through the streets of Cumberland, while driving up walls, almost running over an Affenpinscher (which Radical claims to be God's most precious children), and driving directly through a minivan. King Radical leads McNinja through the tunnels, where Radical explains Sparklelord's past. Sparklelord was in fact a unicorn, but twisted to become the only thing in the Radical land that hated all that is Radical. King Radical was able to defeat Sparklelord and banish him, and convinces Doc to banish him from his own world as well. Upon Sparklelord being thrown into a portal, King Radical reveals that he believes that Doc will never catch him without Sparklelord and drives off. It is later implied that Dr. McNinja is in fact a virgin, when Gordito mentions unicorns usually only approach virgins; however, due to Sparklelord not being a "typical" unicorn, (and also, Gordito is twelve), this implication is questionable at best.

Army of One

The current story opens with the McNinjas' Katanakka celebration interrupted by a phone call from the O'Houlihan "Sky Pirates," who claim to have kidnapped Dr. McNinja, and threaten to kill him if his family doesn't come to claim him that night. Dan treats it as a joke, since the doctor is standing right next to him during the celebration, but a cutaway to the pirates' ship reveals that they have a Dr. McNinja chained up there, too. Dan then asks the Doctor to help him with his garden, and when the Doctor claims no knowledge of gardening, his father says he wasted his money on agriculture college. This leads Dr. McNinja to flashback to his college days, struggling to keep up with his class schedule and homework. He consults his professor, Ben Franklin II, who describes to him an experimental cloning procedure that would allow him to absorb the knowledge of his clones once they had completed his classes for him. Dr McNinja agrees, despite the technique being untested, and the two begin to manufacture clones of the Doc. When the cloning is complete, each clone is sent out to gain knowledge and return after 8 years of study. In the process of bringing the clones back into one person, a time-traveler from the future arrives and destabilizes the machine used to bring them together. It is also revealed that one clone was late, and silently leaves after witnessing the explosions of the lab. The time traveler's suit is damaged during the explosion, sending him back to 1979. The time traveler is revealed as Chuck Goodrich, now a Chrononaut. His mission is to prevent Franklin's Zombie Ninja Apocalypse. As it turns out, one Dr. McNinja clone was late for the amalgamation process, who fled the scene after the explosion. In present time, it is revealed that the clone was kidnapped by Knickerbockers and Frans Rayner, the villain from D.A.R.E to Resist Ninja Drugs and Ninja Violence. Rayner successfully made numerous clones of Dr. McNinja's clone who didn't attend the amalgamation, although Rayner failed to train or otherwise convince the McNinja clones to attack McNinja prime. Rayner then proceeds to fight Dr Mcninja, and all of the clones simulatenously, showing considerable ability, even to the point of tearing a clone in half. Dr Mcninja himself is powerless against him. Mcninja asks aloud how this could be possible, which Rayner overhears, and provides an explanation. In the events of D.A.R.E, Dr Mcninja slaughtered Rayner's entire army of henchman, despite being just one man. Rayner then realises, that being just one man gives him the upper hand over any foe. Mcninja realises this, referring to it as the "Inverse ninja law", whereby one ninja is an elite and unstoppable force, but many ninja are faceless and incompetent. With this knowledge, Rayner has become an almost invincible foe. Mcninja must now find a way to defeat Rayner.

Awards

Dr. McNinja won the 2007 Web Cartoonist's Choice Award for Outstanding Superhero / Action Comic.

Cameos

Dr. McNinja has been featured in a few other webcomics, examples of which are listed below:

• Bunny - February 3, 2006 (here )-The comic depicts a bunny in Dr. McNinja garb with the caption "The Adventures of Dentist MacNinjaBunny."
• Shortpacked! - August 31, 2006 (here )- Dr. McNinja is shown in a single-frame reference to "Filthy Cartoonists." The reference indicates that Dr. McNinja is an exception to "those who pose as ninja."
• EddEgg - July 12, 2006 (here )- In the eighth frame, the artist has a list of potential comic ideas. One of the ideas is "A doctor who is also a ninja".
• Hookie Dookie Panic - #112 (here [1])- Dr. McNinja is seen in the background with wide eyes as Wilcow is in a fight with a mysterious fighter.
• Overcompensating - Multiple (here, here, and here ) - Several references to Dr. McNinja and author Chris Hastings.
• Bigger Than Cheeses - #737 (here [2])- One shot image of Dr. McNinja in a group of webcomics characters. He also made a cameo on #793 (here [3]) like in the previous cameo, he is shown with other webcomic characters.
• Diesel Sweeties - #2133 (here [4])- Zoha tells Dr. McNinja what it's like to be a Muslim on Halloween.
• I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space - (here [5])- A special one-story arc called The Search for the Fourth Wall features Dr. McNinja.
• Least I Could Do - DrMcninja appears in the April 10th, 2009 comic [6], along with a variety of other webcomic characters.

See also

• Pirates versus Ninjas

External links

• The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
• Chris Hastings' myspace based on of the fictional character
• The Adventures of Dr. McNinja RSS Feed
• TheWebComicList's entry on the comic
• The Adventures of Dr. McNinja profiled by io9