Awesome Marcus Ninja - Volume 1 (with apologies) Behind the Scenes: Not that Volume 1 of Marcus Ninja had high standards in the first place, but you might notice that the numbering is screwed on this one. So technically there are two number 5s... This is also the strip where I decided that Marcus would NEVER be seen actually doing ninja like things. The ultimate tease of the strip is that he's this actually bad-ass sort of ninja but we never get to see him cut loose. In this case the strip begins after he's beaten the tar out of a bunch of security goons. I thought alot about the punchline here because originally I considered the possibility of Marcus actually killing one of the guards... In the end I decided to leave it a little ambiguous though if you're really curious in my mind the guard is only severely wounded. I don't like the thought of Marcus murdering people, it seems too far for a comedy strip. This strip was also the first time I started taking credit for the strip... since Absynthe was always looking for contributors I often wouldn't take credit for the stuff I made so that it wouldn't look like we just published our own work. It was a battle to the death against my ego and in the end... the ego won. Let this be a lesson to you, true believers... The ego is stronger than any force on earth. Awesome Marcus Ninja is hosted on Keenspace, a free webhosting and site automation service for webcomics.