A review by iffer
Ninjak Volume 1: Weaponeer by Matt Kindt

4.0

I didn't love the main art, which was very much what I think of as canned 2000-ish art, all bright and shiny, but I ended up really enjoying this. I'm a sucker for spy stuff, and Ninjak (or Ninja-K, stupid name, we know), though eye-rolling being a white ninja (your 90s roots are showing, dude), is fun as a Spy x Ninja, complete with gadgets. This volume includes not only a compelling childhood and early agent backstory, tidily summing up Ninjak's origin story, but it also flashes back to the origins of Ninjak's foil, Roku, a character whom I find intriguing (despite obvious parallels to Medusa of the Inhumans). I actually wished that I had more to read after finishing the first volume, which is always a good sign.