Awesome Marcus Ninja - Volume 1 (with apologies) Behind the Scenes: I stepped up the art effort on this strip by actually doing pencils first rather than just crossing my fingers and inking. The guy in the strip is supposed to be Marcus' father/sensei... I was going to develop a storyline where he lives with his father who's always attacking him and whatnot to keep him on his toes. In the end I scrapped the idea because I thought it would get in the way of Emily character development stuff... Though I still have designs to run some storylines where Marcus has to move in with his pops. The punchline in this strip doesn't even really make sense, but the TCSA was the Trent Central Student Association if you're wondering. What's dumb is the joke is supposed to be about the notorious lack of interest in running for positions in the government, often resulting in presidents elected by default... However he actually implies that it's very hard. I can only claim idiocy on this one, but it was a good lesson in that shout outs don't need to make sense for people to like them. This strip got a lot of positive feedback even though it's non-sensical. Awesome Marcus Ninja is hosted on Keenspace, a free webhosting and site automation service for webcomics.