{"id":51,"date":"2009-09-07T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T02:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/2009\/09\/07\/it-is-also-well-drawn\/"},"modified":"2013-11-16T18:43:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T10:43:56","slug":"it-is-also-well-drawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2009\/09\/it-is-also-well-drawn\/","title":{"rendered":"It Is Also Well Drawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_wcmrMkzl7V4\/SqXEJfJ3OxI\/AAAAAAAAAvs\/QMS4WehAN7M\/s1600-h\/rb-dolphin.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 148px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_wcmrMkzl7V4\/SqXEJfJ3OxI\/AAAAAAAAAvs\/QMS4WehAN7M\/s320\/rb-dolphin.gif\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378920997224659730\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">#5 <a href=\"http:\/\/drmcninja.com\/\">Dr. Mcninja<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">See <a href=\"http:\/\/dancewithsunflowers.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/all-sorts-of-blue.html\">Introduction<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/dancewithsunflowers.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/world-needs-more-laughter-fewer-awkward.html\">#9<\/a><\/span> <span style=\"font-size:85%;\">|<a href=\"http:\/\/dancewithsunflowers.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/dinosaurs-are-notoriously-bad-at-making.html\">#8<\/a> |<a href=\"http:\/\/dancewithsunflowers.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/marmaduke-would-look-quite-dapper-in.html\"> #7<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/dancewithsunflowers.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/humor-in-two-dimensions.html\">#6<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>Do you remember when ninjas all of a sudden became really cool?  It happened at about the same time robots became cool.  And dinosaurs.  And zombies.<\/p>\n<p>Therein lies the beauty of Dr. McNinja: its mastery of our cultural <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/index.php?search=zeitgeist&amp;searchmode=none\">zeitgeist<\/a>. Dr. McNinja is not simply chasing after the latest iconography.  It is creating it.  The comic&#8217;s love affair with the pop of our times goes way beyond the pirate killing ninja protagonist.  It includes his gorilla receptionist, Judy, and his raptor-mounted, bandit child sidekick, Gordito.  Yes, he has faced off against zombies and vampires, but he has also fought the clone of Ben Franklin, and an antagonist known simply as the Ghost Wizard.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite is the appearance of gun wielding dolphins.  As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topatoco.com\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=TO&amp;Product_Code=RB-DOLPHIN&amp;Category_Code=RB\">t-shirt<\/a> says, dolphins don&#8217;t need thumbs&#8230;for revenge.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. McNinja is unlike most comics you find on the Internet.  It is not a single strip of panels, which always features a self-contained joke.  It is also well drawn. Because it is instead modeled after a comic book, reading one panel will not mean much to you.  It might just be a picture of the doctor driving with a <a href=\"http:\/\/drmcninja.com\/page.php?pageNum=1&amp;issue=15\">wizard<\/a> in his backseat.  It might be a sketch of a giant <a href=\"http:\/\/drmcninja.com\/page.php?pageNum=8&amp;issue=1\">lumberjack<\/a> smashing the doctor&#8217;s office.  The only way to truly appreciate the adventures of Dr. McNinja is the way God intended, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/drmcninja.com\/archive.html\">beginning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. McNinja is always bizarre, and always fun and interesting, and worth reading from cover to cover.  Except there is no cover.  It&#8217;s a webcomic. And you can read it for free on the Internet.  Awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Lyric Of The Day:<\/p>\n<p>If you were here<br \/>Would you calm me down<br \/>Or settle the score?<br \/>The feelings I fight (I&#8217;m a stranger in town)<br \/>Burn so bright (but if you were here)<br \/>The feelings I fight (would you ease my mind?)<br \/>(Come on!)<\/p>\n<p>The sleep fled from my eyes<br \/>And I, I know that I need some<br \/>Give a thought to the one that you know<\/p>\n<p>Or would you calm me down<br \/>When the breath gets shallow and fast?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Ghost Of You Lingers&#8221;<br \/>-Spoon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#5 Dr. Mcninja See Introduction | #9 |#8 | #7|#6 Do you remember when ninjas all of a sudden became really cool? It happened at about the same time robots became cool. And dinosaurs. And zombies. Therein lies the beauty of Dr. McNinja: its mastery of our cultural zeitgeist. 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