Awesome Marcus Ninja - Volume 1 (with apologies) Behind the Scenes: So this was the first ever Marcus Ninja strip that was published. Not much to look at I know. At this point I had very little idea for what I wanted in the character, other than that he was to be very dramatic and clash with the values of regular people. I think romances reveal character so quickly that I might as well begin the strip with a blind date. The woman in this strip, Emily goes on to be a major character. The reason why this thing looks so crappy is because number one, I'm a terrible artist and number two, it was rushed to meet the deadline of Absynthe Magazine, for which I was a production manager at the time. We were lacking in comics so I rushed Marcus to print to get our comic representation up. Awesome Marcus Ninja is hosted on Keenspace, a free webhosting and site automation service for webcomics.