Dr McNinja III: You Rad Bro?

[Flickerdart]

One is a lizard that turns people to stone, the other is a chicken that turns people to stone: Together they fight crime.

I don't know if the police department will tolerate a bunch of stoners.

[Spojaz]

Cockatrice, you're a loose cannon, but dammit you get results!

[Scowling Dragon]

The president has been kidnapped by bad dudes, are you a rad enough ninja to go rescue the president?

[Reverent-One]

The president has been kidnapped by bad dudes, are you a rad enough ninja to go rescue the president?

I'm glad I'm not the only one noticing that the president is seemingly being captured by secret agents and will need to be rescued by a ninja.

[Yuki Akuma]

I'm glad I'm not the only one noticing that the president is seemingly being captured by secret agents and will need to be rescued by a ninja.

That is the entire basis of this story's title. It's not exactly an obscure reference.

[Reverent-One]

That is the entire basis of this story's title. It's not exactly an obscure reference.

I don't mean simply recognizing the game reference, but how it's entirely reversing the idea, which up until the latest comic, it hadn't done yet since we hadn't seen the attempted kidnappers. Yeah, people were guessing that the president was going to need to be saved, but the previous discussion didn't go beyond the idea of other ninjas still being the bad guys.

[Scowling Dragon]

The ninja has been presidented by enough ,are you a kidnapped bad dudes to go rescue the ninja?

[The Glyphstone]

Yeah, Franz Rayner's plan was dead in the water at Step 1. This Prez can take care of herself...

Also, it's good to have Page 3 confirmation that Doc is still an idiot.

[Nerd-o-rama]

What's interesting to me is that the black-suit-and-sunglasses combo usually means "Secret Service" when associated with the President. Did the bad guys infiltrate the Presidential bodyguard?

[Giggling Ghast]

Those do appear to have been Secret Service agents. Given that there are over 100 staff in the White House at a given time, the President could be in real trouble if they've all turned against her.

[Flickerdart]

The president has kidnapped bad dudes. Are you ninja enough to rescue them?

[Scowling Dragon]

The president has kidnapped bad dudes. Are you ninja enough to rescue them?

Funnily enough:

You have been Ninjad.

The president has been kidnapped by bad dudes, are you a rad enough ninja to go rescue the president?

[memnarch]

Funnily enough:

You have been Ninjad.

Not quite. Yours has the president being kidnapped and needing a rescue. Flickerdart's has the president doing the kidnapping and having you rescue the bad dudes.

[Scowling Dragon]

Right. Well thats egg on my face.

[Mando Knight]

...So is McNinja ninja enough to kidnap the President?

[Giggling Ghast]

I just wanna note that I had ninja'd you all by over 20 pages with my own Bad Dudes reference. Page 22, beyotches!

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[Kornaki]

The president has kidnapped bad dudes. Are you ninja enough to rescue them?

You nailed it!

[Giggling Ghast]

Looks like the cockatrice theory was correct.

[Porthos]

Looks like the cockatrice theory was correct.

I wouldn't know. I refuse to load the page, just in case it shows it directly looking at me through the monitor.

....

Though that does make me wonder.... Does a monitor count as a reflective surface? Or would only a CRT one count and a LCD one fail?

Hmmm. Maybe if I looked at the monitor via a pair of mirrors (a pair to correct the flip)? Or is it the shifting of the mirroring which stops the petrification effect? And does that stop the petrification gaze always, or only medusas?

Sounds like a job for DOCTOR McNINJA to scientifically study!

[Rodin]

I'm pretty sure that monitors count as a projection or reflective surface.

See, I'm looking at it right now and nothing is hap

[tonberrian]

No no no.

That is clearly a crushatrice. Not a cockatrice. Trust me, I know my 'trices.

(That's some seriously FF inspired art there, Hastings. :P)

[Giggling Ghast]

It's a good thing I'm a weasel/human hybrid, or else I'd be in real trouble reading this comic.

[Porthos]

It's a good thing I'm a weasel/human hybrid, or else I'd be in real trouble reading this comic.

You do have another defense, don't forget.

[FLHerne]

I...don't know what a cockatrice is. That last panel is pretty insane.

[Yuki Akuma]

A cockatrice is a mythological monster born from a chicken egg incubated by a toad/snake. Or possibly the other way around.

It's a chicken-like monster that turns people to stone.

[Nerd-o-rama]

I'm pretty sure that monitors count as a projection or reflective surface.

See, I'm looking at it right now and nothing is hap

See, I thought cockatrices only petrified by bite, not gaze. And even then, once I load up the page, it's only an image of a cockatrice, which shouldn

[Yuki Akuma]

The thing with medieval folklore is that there's never "one true way" that a particular monster works.

[Scowling Dragon]

NOOOOO! All the delicious meats! Wasted!

[Muenster Man]

This should make mirrors and pools of water the greatest environmental hazards to cockatrices. Maybe that's why they're so expensive?

[Flickerdart]

This should make mirrors and pools of water the greatest environmental hazards to cockatrices. Maybe that's why they're so expensive?

Not necessarily. Chickens have pretty poor eyesight - unless the thing is right in its face, it straight up doesn't see it's there.