Issue Description

In this story it is revealed that Dr McNinja was part of a superhero team in his youth. It is revealed that most of this team was killed because a former friend of Dr McNinja, Martin Monster, a character with powers similar to the hulk. That night Martin, who now runs a successful chain of grocery stores, turns up at the Doctors office asking for help. He is having trouble turning back into his human state fro his monster one. The Doctor reluctantly agrees to help him. The Doctor thinks that Martins problems are stress related and advises him to try and relax. That night the doctors office is rigged with explosives and blown up. The culprits implicate Martin. The Doctor and Gordito go and interrogate Martin who reveals that he has joined the Cumberland Mafia which is run by a mysterious man know as King Radical, but denies any involvement in the destruction of the Doctor office. It turns out that King Radical had the Doctors office destroyed because he turned away a suspicious mafia member. The Doctor and Gordito decied to help Martin get out of the mafia by helping him take down a rival gang (led by the humanoid lobster man, The Robster). During the fight Martin becomes enraged and destroys the enemy gang. In the aftermath of the fight, King Radical appears to pronounce Martin's debt settled.

Doctor McNinja is hired by the NSA to enter an ancient Inocktek Indian temple on an island and retrieve an ancient treasure. Inside the temple is a wounded man – a champion tennis player – who must win a ritual tennis match with the temple's robots or the world will be destroyed. The mission is complicated by the temple's many death traps and Dr. McNinja's ex-girlfriend, Hortense. The Doc retrieves the treasure, an ancient book and escapes with Hortense and the tennis champion, just before the island explodes. Meanwhile, Gordito supervise the rebuilding of Doc's office and try to prevent a half-plumber, half-spy from installing surveillance equipment. The Doc returns the book to the NSA, who find out it's worthless. A Secret Epilogue revealed that Hortense had been hired for the mission, not by Doc's parents as she told him, but by King Radical and has stolen the real version of the book.

Dr. McNinja is determined to catch Cumberland Mafia boss King Radical. As soon as Doc decides that he needs a motorcycle to keep up with Radical's dirt bike, a stranger crashes his white rainbow-striped motorcycle in Doc's parking lot. Doc claims the motorcycle for himself, and becomes more and more violently obsessed with thwarting Radical's plans. He starts to dreams of riding a rainbow-maned unicorn. Gordito is concerned with Doc's behaviour, and discovers that the motorcycle's previous owner was driven mad by it. Radical and Doc duel through the streets of Cumberland, and then through the tunnels under the town, which has a space time portal at its center. Radical reveals that Doc's motorcycle was originally an evil unicorn named Sparklelord, and implores Doc to shake off the influence of the motorcycle and help Radical banish it. Sparkellord speaks to Dr McNinja claiming that he will never be able to defeat King Radical without his help. The Doctor utters the words "We'll see" and throws the bike into the portal.

The Adventures Of Dr. McNinja: Night Powers (2011)

Publisher

Dark Horse Comics

Volume Description

What's better than an evil unicorn motorcycle, monster gang wars, a tennis match against a god of destruction, andbandidos on velociraptors?

Yeah, we couldn't think of anything, either!

Award-winning cartoonist Chris Hastings teams up with Dark Horse Books to bring his smash-hit webcomic to print with the first three full-color story arcs of Dr. McNinja, as well as an exclusive-to-print story by Benito Cereno and Les McClaine.

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