KUNAI NINJA WARRIOR
Hey Fans, with Megacon coming soon, we wanted to share with you the background of Kunai, Ninja Warrior.
The concept of Kunai came about after watching GI JOE cartoons where Snake Eyes, who is a good ninja and wears black, while Storm Shadow, who is a evil ninja wears white, we decided to make our ninja evil and to wear black. To make our ninja stand out, we came up with tattoos to be on his chest as badges he earned while training or when he went to battle. We added a mask to make him more mysterious. We added a scar over his left eye. The story behind that scar is Spice (our female ninja) invaded Kunai's dojo to steal a rare weapon. Kunai caught her and they fought each other. Spice realizing Kunai was too strong, cuts him with her knife and escapes, scaring his face. Now we had to do is to find a model.
We went on Model Mayhem to look for an Asian male model. We found Richard Leung. We sent him an email and a few days later, he responded. He was new to modeling and wanted to do something different and agreed to model Kunai. Here is Richard Leung's version of Kunai:
After this shoot, Richard moved on and went back to school.
We needed another model to model Kunai as we wanted Kunai to make his Megacon's debut. We were checking on Model Mayhem and found no one so we went on social media particular MySpace and came across the profile of Jaecob Regis. Like Richard, he was into fitness and bodybuilding but Jaecob had no modeling experience. We sent Jaecob an email via MySpace and was interested so we set up a meeting with him. After he met with us, Jaecob agreed to model Kunai as he had previous fighting skills, some knowledge of weapons and since he had bodybuilding skills, he was able to tone his body. Jaecob made his Kunai's debut at Megacon 2010. He here is:
After Megacon 2010, he did a few more shoots as Kunai. He always trained to looked the part of a ninja. We made some minor changes by giving him a new weapon belt as well as a new weapon. Jaecob continued to train to prepare for next appearance as Kunai for Megacon 2011.Here he is:
We also made a video of him as Kunai at Megacon 2011. Here it is:
After Megacon, Jaecob Regis left the Hall of Comics and became a personal trainer and body builder.
The Kunai character, thanks to Jaecob, became popular and started to have a following. We needed to find a model to model Kunai so he can make his appearances at comic book convention scene. We place an ad on Craigslist and on 3/11/13 we received an response from Jet Chan saying "I'm in." We set up a meeting with Jet and he has been working with us ever since. He made his debut at the Comic Expo on 5/19/13 in Orlando, Fl. For the next convention Orlando Toy & Comic Con in Orlando Fl, we gave him a new weapon. Here it is:
Jet made his Megacon debut in 2014 but we made some minor improvements with his mask and adding leg wraps to his look. Here are the new improvements:
We also added the title Ninja Warrior to his name.
Jet moved on and we are very grateful for all of his hard work and support for not only our project but also his contributions in bringing Kunai Ninja Warrior to life.
In 2018, Leon Shane joined the Hall of Comics to become our Kunai Ninja Warrior character. Here he is at a pre test shoot:
Jet moved on and we are very grateful for all of his hard work and support for not only our project but also his contributions in bringing Kunai Ninja Warrior to life.
In 2018, Leon Shane joined the Hall of Comics to become our Kunai Ninja Warrior character. Here he is at a pre test shoot:
Stay tune to see more of Leon's pic of Kunai Ninja Warrior coming soon.
