The Adventures of Dr. McNinja The Adventures of Dr. McNinja is a
webcomic which ran from 2004 Hastings created Dr. McNinja while he was a student; he said that the name "Dr. McNinja" came first, and was his
online handle for some time, then the comic followed. The comic updated three pages each week, with Hastings employing an inker and colorist to finish the pages. Creating
Dr. McNinja was Chris' full-time job; while the comic is free online, Hastings made money by selling books and T-shirts. The comic follows Dr. McNinja, a doctor who is also a ninja, dealing with problems such as giant lumberjacks, zombie ninjas, a
raptor, his own family, Dracula on the moon, and ancient tennis gods. As of 2008, the site received about 110,000 unique visitors each day.
Crossovers and spinoffs Dr. McNinja and
Axe Cop had a cross-over series in 2010, co-written by Hastings. A
Kickstarter campaign was launched in 2012 for a spinoff video game to be called ''Dr. McNinja's Radical Adventures.'' The Kickstarter was successfully funded, but no game was ever produced. In 2015, the game company, Fat Cat GameWorks, made a post giving their reasons for the game's failure. According to the post, Fat Cat GameWorks randomly drew "Tiki" and "Ninja" as themes for their first ever game, and following that approached Hastings to license Dr. McNinja, to which Hastings agreed. The Kickstarter was only funded by accident, with a late bidder accidentally pledging $1500 instead of $15. Hastings received 15% of the Kickstarter funds. The company found working with an already developed
IP to be too ambitious and too limiting for a new company, the funding was insufficient to make the game they had promised, and key staff had serious health issues. The post said, "We were foolish and bit off WAY more than we could chew".
Marvel Hastings has written or co-written several works for
Marvel Comics.
The Unbelievable GwenPool From 2015 to 2018, after co-creating the character of
Gwen Poole with
Heather Antos and Jordan D. White for
Howard the Duck, Hastings wrote the
existentialist isekai solo series
The Unbelievable GwenPool about her, across the storylines
Believe It,
Head of M.O.D.O.K.,
Totally In Continuity,
Beyond the Fourth Wall, and
Lost in the Plot. Hastings also wrote the
Wet Hot American Summer graphic novel, a prequel of the movie of the same name, and the comic series
Regular Show: 25 Years Later.
Dynamite Entertainment Hastings has served as writer for several comic book miniseries for
Dynamite: "The Six Million Dollar Man" based on the
TV series and "
Sonjaversal" which was expanded from its originally planned five issues with a sequel, "Hell Sonja".
Other work Hastings co-created webcomics for the company
ShiftyLook, adapting the video games
Galaga and
Dig Dug into comics. In 2018, Hastings launched a Kickstarter for a graphic novel called
Draculagate to be co-created by Hastings and Branson Reese. The project successfully received funding of $44,772 on November 4 2018. The last update was posted on June 13 2022. In 2019, Hastings began writing the webcomic
Never Enough: The Wario Diaries. Since 2021, Hastings collaborated with
Scott Cawthon on making graphic novel adaptations based on ''
Five Nights at Freddy's'' books. ==References==