'He's a Ninja'

"Mommy, who is that strange man, and how can he balance like that?"

"Don't worry dearie, he's a Ninja."

This particular ninja is of note: he is Carmine Daier, the elder brother of Scar Daier from ~TheIronWizard. He never appears in the comic, and is only mentioned in passing once, but he has contrived to stomp all over my imagination until I drew him. Several times.

He's a fairly decent chap, and share's his sister's attitude towards getting the most out of life. He enjoys water-skiing on his days off, and is a licensed massage therapist. He has a pet tiger named Hogarth, and his favorite comic strip is Bill Waterson's Calvin & Hobbes because he can relate so much to the main characters. He loves kids and wants to have a family of his own some day.

His weapons of choice are small knives, throwing stars (shurinken), hand-to-hand combat and giant balls of flaming molten lava-rocks (he is an expert at explosive Hayabusa-style Nin-Po.).

You can only see him when he wants you to.

Art © myself, some rights reserved. This picture was done with Prismacolor colored pencils on 9"x12" illustration paper, and appears on page 91 of my Black Book.
Enjoy.