Getting Hasbro exclusives at SDCC is a full-time job in itself. Much thanks to a dude named Sam, Pocketdoom, and Sarevock, who graciously helped me get a Bruticus and a pair of Zombie Cliffjumpers. They were my trio of Santas, and Friday was my Christmas. Sam even went back and got me a sweet Court of Owls mask from the DC booth! I’m gonna wear that thing every day.
I am super blessed to have you folks looking out for me.
But KQF was just a guy who had seen Kabuki theatre once and ended up in a computer with ATTACK HAIR.
As opposed to Sgt Kabukiman.
KQF was actually a really awesome game with some neat bosses.
I never played it but the issue of nintendo power covering it was amazing.
Grats on Knowing he went into a computer now to correct the rest of you.
He didn’t happen to placed into a computer on accident. He was put into the computer as an colonel of the armed services to stop the invasion of the supercomputer.
The reason he took the form of someone from Kabuki Theater is because his family, grandfather in specific, had a history with the theater.
Though considering I’m probably on of the 12 or so people who actually owned and played the game. I’m still surprised to see the reference.
I was regurgitating from memory–story was kinda unimportant when the most we got to play most games was three days during a rental =p
I think I love the niche that you’ve found for Ken in the comic.
It is glorious.
On an unrelated note, for some reason, I find Amber strolling little Donna to be a very adorable sight.
Yo, my ninjas, I think the oversaturaton of the N-word in society is detrimental to our growth as equals. If ninjas go around calling each other ninjas, but then don’t let other people say ninja, then we are now being anti-ninja by exclusion.
The United Ninja College Fund: A Shuriken Is A Terrible Thing To Waste.
Ninja 101: Orange Jumpsuits are not stealthy. Neither is walking around town wearing ninja gear during a mission.
Are we still allowed to use “shinobi” as frequently as we like?
- a_o_t_8.
It’s good that Ethan remembered Ken’s name, but bad that it’s as a ‘Transformers Ninja’.
And yay Donna in a stroller!
Banzai-tron?
Holy crap, someone else remembers Kabuki Quantum Fighter. Props to you, Willis, for your obscure NES game knowledge.
Actually, I do not remember it! I originally had “Noob Saibot” there instead, but asked our IRC channel if there were a more hilarious fictional ninja somewhere out there. The Kabuki Quantum Fighter reference goes to my friend Graham, the recipient of one of my Zombie Cliffjumpers. I had to look it up.
Awww, you got my retro-nerd all excited for nothing, Willis.
(Not that I ever played Kabuki Quantum Fighter myself, but I certainly know of it, having grown up in the NES era.)
Aww, now I’m disappointed. I actually got most of the way through the game =( [bro beat it, and I spent FOREVAR at the resulting sound test mode ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥]
I think Spoony reviewed it way back when.
I dont remember if I ever played KQF, but I remember reading about it in Nintendo Power, so all my nostalgia triggers lit up all the same
Maybe Ken just knows who to sleep with to get the good stuff?
at the moment it seems Ken is the guy to sleep with to get the good stuff.
Or maybe Ken beat the crap of the guy who had the good stuff and take said good stuff.
Amber should have thought of that before naming her after a ninja turtle.
The last thing the world needs is a female with Mike’s genes learning ninjutsu.
Really, would she have to LEARN ninjitsu? Wouldn’t it be inborn?
NO, it takes BLOOD, SWEAT and TEARS YOSH!
I’m pretty sure that’s just punching.
Egh, if the offspring of Joyce and Walky gets to learn Martial Arts, then so should Mike’s sprog.
Kabuki Quantum Fighter was indeed a dude trapped in a computer who attacked people with his hair. I say let Rick teach the kid. It could come in handy some day, especially if that bus ever shows up and is filled with things that need a firm hair-whipping.
hair-whipping also comes in handy when you’re an extra in an 80s rock video.
Plus, look what it did for Will Smith’s daughter!
Yes, I want to see Ninja Rick help take care of the little one. And maybe impart some of his “ancient” wisdom, and some of his real ninja skills.
Rick needs to teach Donna on the art of not being seen.
my pappy told me that babies need to be taught the art of being seen but not heard.
Well, she’s already got the first part down, that being not to stand up.
No he’s not. He’s a Transformers Street Fighter.
Which leaves me an image Megatron in M.Bison’s costume.
Or Arcee dressed as Chun Li.
But has someone already made such an image or do we have to wait for an artist to be persuaded to create one?
Starscream as Dan? Or is he more a Vega?
Well, I know Shockwave has to be Sagat, since he already only has one eye.
I remember that game!
I have actually beaten it.
I like trying to deliver the final point of damage to the end boss’s first form by hanging from the platform and kicking it. ‘Cause it looks like you’re kicking its head off.
Willis, I just want to say that your QC guest strip is equal parts hilarious and horrifying. Well done.
That shit WAS horrifying. And awesome.
Literally!
Ahhh, clever Willis. Very clever.
You should be quarantined before your Butts Disease becomes a pandemic.
you mean to say it wasn’t already?
Although I should point out that that one panel isn’t a prologue, it’s a flashback.
Good, Willis, back to the funny. But it was not funny enough. Make the next strip 18% funnier.
Sincerely
Someone who thinks he has the right to demand such things and speaks for all your readership.
…and Carl Sagen [sic] was never heard from again.
And 20 percent cooler.
This transformers comic just isn’t funny. Where are all the Sexist/Batman/Sexist Batman jokes?
I was too slow to the draw and someone beat me to making a comment like this.
Seriously, though, the KQF reference flew past my head. I had discriminating tastes during my NES, errr, Family Computer days.
Whooo, boy! That Kabuki Quantum Fighter reference really cracked me up! So perfectly non-ninja, it would make perfect sense for Ninja Rick to get fascinated by it.
You know I have to wonder if Mike doesn’t secretly go to comic con get the Transformer Ethan covets the most and then gives it to Ken on the condition that he never tells him how he got it. Seems like a Mike kind of thing to do.
Shhhhh ….. that is supposed to be a secret not to be revealed until such time it causes the most angst and anguish in Ethan and others that might actually care for such things.
From a distance, without zoom, baby Donna looks like Roadblock to me. Pacifier x colorblindness = beard.
Or just being willing to pay out your rectum on ebay for one…which I did…and can’t wait. He’s in transit. *Sigh*..HURRY UP USPS!
Look on the bright side – at least he tried and failed to get a transformers comic con exclusive.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QfiiG8tvOYs/T_99jhJiznI/AAAAAAAAv4w/7DMtPaJzPe0/s1600/1.jpg
If he’d gone there for the My Little Pony exclusive, he would’ve have never even had a chance.
I think it may just be possible that Derpy is a popular character.
C’mon, Hasbro, pay attention this time! You screwed every pooch in Springfield on GI Joe: Renegades, don’t let this clarion call of ponyswag-interest fly over your head!
Don’t worry, Ethan… Ken will make it up to you… with a Chick-Fil-A sandwich!
… OH, WAIT.
… okay, that should not have been in reply to anyone…
It’s the ponies, man. The ponies call to each other, herd up even when you aren’t trying to make ‘em.
Good luck finding a Chick-Fil-A in San Francisco.
Which makes a certain amount of sense.
I’m honestly surprised that no one got shanked for their Derpy.
Preferably with a sharpened Twilight Sparkle.
Of course Vega’s good at getting transformers. He can climb walls.
I would have expected Ethan to be happy with the retail version.
But come to think of it, I guess he’d be even happier with both, plus G2 Bruticus, plus Ruination.
You have to wait like a whole month at least for the retail version! The SDCC version is NOWWWW.
This is true.
But will Donna have the Hair and Make-up for the Way.
Title of this comic should have been “The N-Word”.
…Willis likes lots of comments from people who didn’t actually read the comic first, right?
I bet that Ken actually IS a ninja. As in, the “master of stealth, does not wear obvious clothing, can do anything while people don’t notice him” type, not the “wears black pajamas in the day time” type. It’d just be so fitting.
Oh Ehm Geee … that is pure genius …. Act like an Otaku’U wannabe NINJA so everybody and their hairdressers cousin thinks of you as anything else but a NINJA. You can even pull of some authentic moves and everyone will think its either a fluke or something a sad fanboi has practiced in their parents basement for so long they actually get it right.
Wow! now that is an interesting talent Ken is showing lately.
BEHBEH! D’AWWWW.
So, Willis, you’re switching from sexism to homophobia? I mean, obviously you’re saying that, while straight boy Ken managed it, Ethan couldn’t get a ticket because the Hasbro people are against gays.
…Goodness, I missed the internet. I see that in my time away, they still haven’t invented the font for sarcasm. Pity.
There is, however, a sarcasm mark. It’s a backwards ?, if I remember right.
…. or “#sarcasm”, though that’s playing a bit rough.
Wait, I thought Ken was asian.
Haha, awesome. The dojo I train at teaches a style called Quantum.
lol wut
You do realize what the definition of Quantum is right?
“The smallest quantity of some physical property, such as energy, that a system can possess”
There are newer definitions that are just marketing spin misuse of the word unfortunately.
Those DAMN LINES on the hasbro booth where part of the hell, You had to be there at 7 or 8 to make a line upstairs to get a ticket wait for the con to open THEN make another 3 hour line on the hasbro booth. well at least you got your stuff by the time I manage to get to hasbro they where sold out of all teh good stuff.. oh well ebay here I come