Pro gamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins is, for reasons that couldn’t ever be adequately explained or excused, launching his own graphic novel – and if you guessed it’s about streamer superheroes sucked into some kind of dystopian battle royale alt-reality, you totally got it.
Co-authored by Blevins and Justin Jordan, with art by Felipe Magaña, Ninja: The Most Dangerous Game’s blurb on Amazon is exactly as absurd as you’d expect.
Tyler Blevins (aka “Ninja”) – the undisputed champion of the world’s most popular online battle royale – enjoys a captivated audience of millions as he does what he loves: decimating the competition. At the end of one fateful stream, however, Ninja receives a strange package at his doorstep containing a mysterious contraption that appears to be a game controller. With a mind of its own, the controller clasps on and teleports Ninja right into the battle royale’s universe where he must find a way to stay alive, win the game, and, ultimately, save the world. Along the way, Ninja meets up with this gaming friends who were also transported and together they fulfill a destiny larger than he ever could have imagined.
According to Polygon, the graphic novel co-stars a sentient headband and also features Ninja’s miraculous, messianic resurrection from a valorous death. Okay.