The 1990s produced a ton of arcade beat-'em-up games, with several of them winding up as cult classics as time went on, largely due to a lack of any home ports. Games like Violent Storm, Alien vs. Predator, Battle Circuit (up until a few years ago, anyway), and others, including Irem's Ninja Baseball Bat Man. Released in October of 1993, the game was a comical beat-'em-up about a quartet of baseball ninja tasked with retrieving stolen items from the Baseball Hall of Fame. It received great reviews, but sadly sold poorly at the time. Original creator and designer Drew Maniscalco still owns the rights to use the property outside of video games, though, and with the game approaching its 30th anniversary and having built up a noticeable following over the years, Drew has decided to revive Ninja Baseball Bat Man as a five-issue comic book.

Teaming up with writer Dave Cook and artist Steve Gregson (with them and Dave collectively known as Team Beats), the comic will see the Baseball Ninjas and their Atomic Cheer Squad searching the country for six golden baseball relics stolen from Champion's Field, battling evil All-Stars from other sports along the way. It promises to have the same Saturday morning-inspired action from the game, though the comic will be going under the name of Ninja Baseball Spirits, presumably because including "Bat Man" in your comic's title is inviting some confusion and/or a lawsuit. More details are available at the official Ninja Baseball Bat Man site, with a Kickstarter campaign for the first chapter set to launch later this year, so be sure to keep an eye out for it.