The Adventures of Dr. McNinja

Yes, free to screw around with whatever dastardly ghostly schemes they want.

The farewell post is titled "Dr. Hastings' Final Thoughts," so I think that might be all we get.

Yeah... LIKE BUILDING THE GREATEST RESTAURANT EVER!

Well Gordito and DSP need something to do.

It's over. This comic has been regularly updating since I was in high school and now it's over. If you'll excuse me, I need to go stare at my bedroom wall for a few hours.

... So, Doc killed his own grad-grand-...-grandson? Huh.

And, I didn't expect to be right.

Well, I don't expect any more strips with Dr. McNinja Patrick Goodrich in them, but we could have strips with other characters (like a "how are they now" look in the short/long-term future). However we have just seen Gordito with Doc's family, so I find that unlikely.

I don't think that Patrick is a Goodrich ancestor. I think he just took the name in tribute to those Chucks that were his friends.

That's what I'm assuming.

I'm also assuming that, but that doesn't prevent any of his descendants to name their children Charles.

All this loopy time buisness will make anyone suspicious.

Dark Smoke Puncher graduates and becomes a different kind of Doctor with an assortment of villains left behind by his brother. A Technomage Ninja vs Ghost Wizards/Chaotic Evil Unicorn lord sounds good enough.

The one does not necessarily prevent the other. It is possible for Doc to have taken the name Goodrich out of memory of the Chucks but to ALSO be the ancestor of Chuck. It's what we call an ontological paradox: whereupon a thing involved in a time loop has no clear point of origin.

Consider the Song of Storms from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Link learns the song in the future from the windmill man who has become obsessed with it since a young boy came in, played it, and screwed up the windmill. Link then travels to the past and plays the song, which is how the windmill man becomes aware of it.

The windmill man learns the song from Link, who learns the song from the windmill man. Through time travel, each becomes aware of it from the other. The song thus originates from the time loop itself; no one ever wrote it. It simply is.

It could be the same with the Goodrich name.

In this case it would originate from the Radical Lands since the time loop never intersected there. As far as we can tell, that's one universe that just went on in a straight line.

If I'm understanding this right, the implication is that the Chuck Goodrich who will eventually be born in this timeline will be a descendant of Patrick, and possibly the Chucks of the other timelines were the descendants of those timelines' Patricks. Remember that every Chuck we've seen in the comic has come from a different timeline than Doc, and the Chuck of Doc's own timeline hasn't been born yet as of the comic's conclusion.

Now that I think about it, I really like this. It's not as bland and predictable as the idea that Dr. McNinja literally IS King Radical, but it links their stories together. Makes it feel more personal/destined and less like Rad is just another random bad guy for Doc to fight.

Also Radical was knighted for discovering the timeportal in the Rad World. So that may mean there was a rad!Patrick Goodrich there at the time Chuck was a knight. Of course we won't know what happened to him during the whole sparklelord problem.

edited 20th Jan '17 10:10:15 PM by Adannor

What if he was the first king that Sparklelord killed?

That would be pretty funny - that alt-Doc was The Most Radical before Rad-Chuck got the seat passed down to him.

That could also explain why Sparklelord never bothered Doc further. "Welp, you're going to kill your own son. I can't do anything worse to you, goodbye!"

Huh, would explain his curiosity for the name too - if Old King Radical was only known by his title.

Wait a minute, "Old" King Radical?

HE WAS A CLONE!

"Hey, it's Wednesday, I wonder if Dr. McNinja has updated...oh........oh...."

:(

I'm right there with you, Miles. I've been reading about Doc's adventures since my freshman year of college. I keep going on to see if something, anything, has been updated.

Yeah. I have three comics I check every MWF.

Well, I guess two now. I have to keep reminding myself.

I feel the same way. I'd been following this comic for 10 years.

What now? No closing thoughts? No even sign that maybe everyone will meet up again later?

They won't. That's the point of Doc removing his mask. It's his final sacrifice.

"Ok, but this is the FINAL sacrifice."

edited 27th Jan '17 6:48:32 AM by MilesDryden