{"id":29198,"date":"2025-08-28T12:37:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=29198"},"modified":"2025-08-24T12:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T17:47:55","slug":"canini-brian-bootleg-ninja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=29198","title":{"rendered":"Canini, Brian – Bootleg Ninja"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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You don’t see them very often these days, but I do love a tribute comic. This is Brian’s homage to the Ninja comics of his friend Michael Anthony Carroll, who I reviewed a fair amount back in the day (before the great website update of 2010), and then apparently stopped reviewing for some reason? Odd. I’ll have to grab some of ninja comics the next time I see him at a con to catch up\/get some context for this one. Not that you need much context, because: ninjas! Everybody knows ninjas. This one starts off with a brief explanation of the concept, then it’s on to the “training video” portion. Other stories include a listing of their weapons, Godzilla dressed as a ninja, a very vocal movie critic who’s not having a good time watching a ninja movie in a darkened theater, and of course Franken-ninja. I also couldn’t possibly avoid talking about probably the longest story in here, about a silent fart who takes up ninja tools and goes on a rampage. I thought it was funny, but if your eyes just rolled out of your head, maybe this one isn’t for you. Which is fine; very few people have as many comics to choose from as Brian does. I found the whole comic to be a hoot, even if I was probably missing some context, so if you’re up for some ninja mockery I’d say you should give this one a shot. $5<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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