Some of you may be familiar with the original or current version of Ninjak, a government assassin named Colin King. Well, between the original Valiant Comics and the current one, video game publisher Acclaim Entertainment had bought the company after Jim Shooter was screwed out of the publisher he founded. (For more check out SF Debris’ series on “The Rise And Fall Of The Comic Industry”. The full miniseries is up on his website but if that doesn’t work, he’s currently uploading it to YouTube, which I have a playlist on mine for. As of this writing he still has a few episodes left to go on YouTube.)

In this new version, meant to possibly be turned into a video game, Denny Meechum is a video game fanatic and Ninjak is his favorite game. But when he solves a secret puzzle he is infused with the game hero’s powers, becoming Ninjak. That’s because the game is meant to find the hero who can defeat the Dark Dozen, ancient warriors serving Akuma, and either prevent his return or take him down. Except last issue he got dragged into fighting a more typical supervillain, Stonemason, who can turn to stone bring statues to life, disrupting Denny’s sister’s wedding plans. As we left our hero and agent Colin King, Stonemason was hanging defeated, but had one of his stone troopers hold King over a ledge, turning back to normal forcing the statue to let go and let King drop to his death!

Don’t you just hate wedding crashers?

Ninjak vol 2 #8

Acclaim Comics/Valiant Heroes (October, 1997)

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