Does anyone else like Ninja High School?
Didn't someone storytime the whole thing last year?
>>152039584>set up the love triangle in the first issue>basically drop it in a few issue just so Ben can do whatever pop culture stuff he likes I like the series but I wish Ben planned out the story between the two girls and Jeremey also the big Kickstarter collections have real shit reproduction quality.
>>152039584Is that Sailor Mercury? I'd penetrate her butthole.
>>152039584no I never even gave it try because of that furfag garbage on the right
>>152040124wow
>>152039596He's really an impressively productive human being.
>>152040124It was legally required by Antarctic Press back in the day.
>>152039584It definitely has the high school level art style down pat.
Speaking of Ben Dunn, is this dead?
>>152039584I knew about it, but never found the comics when they were on the shelves
>>152039584I read it and I think it should be storytimed regularly during the storytime of pain weekend.
>>152039611that was me, i storytimed all of version 1 plus the gold digger crossover and some side stuff like the yearbooks and girls of nhs, but i lost interest sometime in the middle of version 2.
>>152041221Can't blame you
>>152039817afaik jeremy ends up with asrial (the skunk alien) and they have children who i think were going to be set up as the next generation of ninja high school but then when the new storyline started it had an entirely new cast
Seeing my first catgirl and a cat girl in mecha armor to boot when I was but a wee lad in an 80's Waldenbooks was enough to fry my brain. I'm lucky I was too embarrassed to ask my mom to buy it for me or I'd probably be a weeaboo now.
did anyone get the special edition of the 200th issue with all the fan submitted stories?
>>152039584I'm surprised to see a Ninja High School thread on /co./I have a collection of some of the comics. I bought a big chunk of the set when a local comic store had to move locations. It reminds me a lot of Archie or Ranma 1/2. But Ben Dunn always had problems with storytelling. He was never that good at storytelling, and reading Kendra- he still isn't. A lot of NHS stuff is really just parody of various animes and comics. The problem with many of the Jeremy Feeple comics, is that Jeremy just didn't DO all that much. He was a character who just kind of shrugged his shoulders at all the ninja and alien stuff that went on around him. The series had a Hawaii arc with differetn characters and a different author- that I have, but never bothered reading. I did like the reboot with Ricky Feeple, it has more ninja stuff in it.
>>152039584>>152039596You would not believe how shocked I was to find out the guy that created this was black.The entire time beforehand, I assumed he was just Asian American furry.
>>152043397You're thinking of Fred Perry, who DID animate >>152039596 and is also the creator of Gold Digger.Ben Dunn is a Taiwanese boomer whose family emigrated to the US.
>>152039584I did, but then Ben's eyes and hands both gave out. "Insane level of detail" (sometimes covering up problems elsewhere) was his schtick and he couldn't do it any more. And he started endlessly repeating himself....And then he went Q-Anon... Sigh.
>>152043951i always thought the best art in the comics were when they would get guest artists to do an issue or two.i like to consider 175 as the real end of the series since the stuff after that is so wildly different and barely connects to it anyway. the writing really took a hit once robby bevard left.
>>152039584You mean it's still being published?
>>152044688yeah, they hit issue 200 lately and it had a special crowdfunded edition featuring fan submitted stories
>>152039584I genuinely loved this shit as a kid, but it was a fucking hassle trying to find issues past the first few. They had the first couple at my local library, but they had do a library share thing where they sent issues from other libraries to share, which I had to do to read more, and despite the librarian being a real cool guy and trying to help find more they were apparently just really hard to find. And I was like 9 so it's not like I had the money to buy them online or anything.But yeah, this series is pretty nostalgic for me.
Last thing I remembered was with the red ninja in another dimension.
It was good in the beginning when they parodied Ranma 1/2 and Project A-ko and other anime I was familiar with. But, as others have noted, they drifted away from that.Ben's art deteriorated, became cruder and seemed to focus solely on increasing girl's boob sizes. He still posts on DeviantArt as Dogsupreme if you're interested in that. His Q-anonish politics also began to annoy me. Is EVERYONE in Texas stupid?
>>152045399>Is EVERYONE in Texas stupid?Yes, insanely so
>>152045464I have friends there, and they confirm this.
>>152045399it does feel like he's gone for more of a western style than a more anime-influenced one in the more recent issues. i'm not really sure whether or not he keeps up with anime these days as most of the references just seem to be towards western media now. there were gegege parody characters in a recent issue though.
>>152046760i actually did just skim through the issue, the gegege parody character does not show up in the actual story.
>>152039584No cause it's Anime ripoffs done by Dobson like artists!You NEVER go Dobson!
I miss 90s weeb culture before crunchyroll brought all the normalfags in. Gatekeep your hobbies, kids.
If it's Antarctic Press, it's Ben Dunn
>>152041573Doesn't his younger brother take over as the main character later on?
>>152042288Yeah. the fan stories are pretty cheesy but I guess thats the charm The main character is named Roger Wilco (I have no idea who he is). His Furry love interest is a hillbilly squirrel
>>152046760He used western media parodies even in the first handful of stories (robocop , terminator , Star Wars etc)I don't mind the parody stuff but it got in the way of working on the basic story line of Jeremy and the two girls chasing after him.
>>152050053I remember there was a story arc about "The Y Men" which were an X-Men parody. There is a character named Sammi who is a delivery girl who has to pretend to be a boy around town. The Terminator was parodied as "Kenterminator." And Jeremy's rich guy rival was a guy named Rivalson Lendo. Ichi-Koo is the Japanese girl who is after Jeremy and Asrial is the blonde skunk alien girl. Ichi-Koo is actually Jeremy's non-blood related cousin. The problem with the Jeremy stories is that there were SO MANY issues that didn't even have Jeremy, or Jeremy just kind of stands there shrugging his shoulders as stuff went on around him. Ben Dunn focused on parody and side-characters so much to the point where Jeremy didn't do much at all.
>>152051093Sammy reveals she's a girls to Charley
>>152051093I think this is why Ben was never able to really sell NHS as a tv show/cartoon. There just isn't that much Jeremy material to make an entire season out of. They managed to make a Warrior Nun show before NHSI think there is a "power ranger" homage characters in like the first 10 issues and Jeremy just basically stands around doing nothing.having a ninja girl / skunk alien girl chasing after a regular dork in high school could have been milked for a few years (in comics) before just doing homage/parodies of anime/western pop cultureI got a few of those "text book" collections and the stories are fine (though the print quality is really hit or miss) but Ben just does random stuff he likes instead of focusing on the 3 main characters.
>>152039584>pick up random new issue>Inspector gadget homage character>sexy hillbilly squirrel >Winnie the Pooh as Doctor Who homage >The main normal guy is named Roger Wilco (neither of the Feeble bros)
>>152044949Cool
>>152049920Yes, Ricky Feeple took over when they rebooted it as V2. That's when they introduced Tomorrow Girl.>>152049952Ignorant on the character but "Roger Wilco" is military-speak. Shorthand for pilot acknowledging "I understand and will comply as instructed."
>>152039584Never heard of it.
>>152051093yeah, despite jeremy being the main character i can't help but consider ichi and asrial to be the real main characters since they tend to get more development compared to jeremy who i see as just a plot device for them to fight over
>>152039584cool logo
>>152050053I guess so. I do remember more anime parodies in the older stuff like Dirty Pair and Hokuto No Ken being parodies compared to anime parodies in the more recent issues.This one always got a chuckle out of me.
Because of this thread, I pulled my Heaven Sent mangas off the shelves. I haven't read volume 1 in ages, and I bought volume 2, but never got around to it. It's kind of like Ben Dunn's version of Oh My Goddess.
>>152056806the most memorable part of this comic to me is the opening
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>>152056837The next scene is the cemetery where it shows that Kyle's mother died on September 11, 2001. I did feel really bad for Kyle.
Sammi made me realize my love for reverse traps.
>>152039584Its impressive that Antarctic press is still around
>>152039584This is the most early 2000's thing ever
They have Ninja in High School.
>>152057360I admittedly like her and Mimi better over the two main girls.
>>152039584Cast the live action Netflix adaptation
Anyone else think Ichi has a resemblance to Psylocke?