Fandom Primer Post (aka Pimp Your Fandom)

[deliaknows]

Now that nominations are done and sign-ups are just on the horizon, here's a post where you can advertise your fandoms to the rest of yuletide. Tell us about your fandom(s) and link to sources you think will help a new fan interested in checking it out or an old fan looking for canon refreshing. And if you're looking for new (or old but forgotten) fandoms

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[vana_tuivana]

Fandom: The Adventures of Dr. McNinja
Category: Cartoons & Comics & Graphic Novels
Comments: The Adventures of Dr. McNinja is a webcomic about a doctor who is also a ninja, his 12-year-old raptor-riding bandito sidekick, his zany ninja parents, his technowizard-ninja little brother, his gorilla receptionist Judy, and their adventures in medical mysteries, ninja adventures, time travel, space travel, death, and revolutions against humanity's cruel space-dinosaur overlords. I'm not sure what more to say here other than that the art is great, the storylines are clever, and the dialogue is often hilarious.

Links: The comic's introduction page! Start there.

Fandom: Alpha Flight
Category: Cartoons & Comics & Graphic Novels
Comments: This comic series is a spinoff of the X-Men universe, though I think it stands alone pretty well without extensive knowledge of the various X-teams. It's the adventures of Canada's premier superteam, consisting of a husband-and-wife team of leaders, a scientist who can turn into a giant orange sasquatch, a

[weisquared]

I'd like to second plug for Dr. McNinja. One of the great things about this webcomic (besides the regular update schedule, great sense of humor, and art) is that the story is divided up into very manageable arcs (of about 50 pages each) instead of being one giant glob of a story. That way, there are lots of places you can jump in the series quickly, if you don't want to start from the beginning. (Like, if you like webcomics in color, you might want to try out Dr. McNinja from issue #9, "Monster Mart.")