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Artist: Joe Madureira
Cover: A
Print: First Print
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Cover Opinion:
Interesting that I didn't enjoy this cover without color,
but when the color was added...it's made it such a wonderful
cover! I enjoy this cover the most out of the two
first-prints. Joe Madureira is a fantastic artist I have to
say. |
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Artist: Arnold
Tsang
Cover: B
Print: First Print
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Cover Opinion:
This is the entire game-play cast that features
everyone, I think this is such a wonderful cover. It
contains every character in an unorganized fashion. It's
almost SF3 Vs. SFA, but it's not. Wonderful coloring also! |
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Artist: ???
Cover: C
Print: Second Print
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Cover Opinion:
Anime-inspired, one of my favorites. As much as I want
the characters to look realistic/cartoonish at the same
time, this one used anime-inspiration real well. The use of
colors is amazing also, as a tri-fold coloring. |
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Artist: Jo Chen
Cover: Power Foil
Print: Special Edition Limited
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Cover Opinion:
Chun-Li, the most popular girl fighter in the series.
This drawing shows Chun-Li taking chi in. This makes the cover
amazingly worthwhile, the picture does not do justice as to what a
power foil cover is! Released alongside the first print, it
is the cover to get if you can. |
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Comic Information
Street Fighter #1
Publisher:
Image Comics
Producer:
Udon Entertainment
Writer:
Ken Siu-Chong
Artist:
Alvin Lee
Arnold Tsang
Rob Ross
Andrew Hou
Notes:
First Issue!
Backup Story drawn by the renowned Joe Madureira!
Cheap Shots by Rey
Original Release Date:
September 2003 |
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Introduction:
If you read my first review of #0, you will know
that one of the best fighting game franchise is
being made into a comic series! Now if you didn't
read the #0 issue, then it shouldn't matter too much
as the story quickly summarizes it in a few words.
The first issue packs a lot of character first
appearances (noted below) and has two collinear
storylines taking place that collides.
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Synopsis: Beginning with the death of Charlie
Nash, the story quickly paces after the page turns.
Guile is shown to be mad over the fact that his best
friend is dead, while in other places, Ryu shows up
to Ken's Mansion meeting Eliza along the way (his
girlfriend). Ryu shows up with a serious attitude
while Ken is not until Ryu states that their Master
Gouken had been murdered. Appearing to be Guile's
assistant, Gibson comes up and tells Guile of that Shadaloo has been active. Gibson states that they
seem to be interested in Ryu. As Ryu and Ken head out
to eat to discuss the death of Master Gouken,
trouble arises. Birdie shows up, working for
Shadaloo, to cause ruckus in the restaurant. The
police shows up, along with Guile, to put
Birdie and his gang to rest. Guile notices Ryu from
the corner of his eye but a small battle takes place
between Guile and Birdie. As Birdie gets beaten, one
of the other gang members run away to get caught
by...Chun-Li with her rapid kicks taking the runaway
member down.
Back-Up Issue Synopsis: The final battle of
the first Street Fighter begins to commence, a
vigorous battle between Ryu and Sagat takes place.
Towards the end, it is show that Ryu's Shoryuken
made the scar on Sagat's chest. Bison tells Ryu that
he has potential...and the tournament ends.
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Notable Character First Appearances:
Charlie Nash
Bison
Sagat
Balrog
Vega
Ken Masters
Eliza
Guile
Birdie
Chun-Li
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Conclusion: Starting off the comic with Charlie
dying is extremely eye-catching. A wonderful way to
start the series I might add. With this, it adds two
storylines that will eventually collide at the end
of the comic. While the artwork and everything is
notably wonderful, it has a factor that's hard to
face...it's...short. Incredibly short comic at only 18
pages. As a first issue, it would've been better to
start off with a bigger issue. However, the coloring
that this comic has that many other comics do not
definitely make up for the lack of pages. The story
is definitely laid out fairly simple, telling the
story in the length that it would be occurring. It
does pace very fast after the characters are
introduced. It's a wonderful start of the series,
with unexpected outcomes to the series and kinks to
the storyline that is set by Capcom (which is almost
non-existent!).
The downside of the first issue, is that it indeed
is incredibly short. The backup story makes up for
what is missing, but it is still very short. The
text was also something to get used too, sometimes
you can get confused as to what word you are
actually reading. However, there is not that many
defects in this issue at all! A wonderful way to
start off.
Studio Udon
has proven to be an amazing group, with writer Ken
Siu-Chong having amazing storylines and the artists
doing an wonderful job!
With wonderful drawings, coloring, backup issues,
and a fun SF-related Cheap Shots series, it's a great
way to start off. This benchmark that Studio Udon
has put on is extremely high, from here on out the
series will hopefully get better and better. Many
people either use all their all for the first issue,
or set it as a benchmark to what's to come. I hope
this is the benchmark, and with that, the next issue
should be an amazing addition! |
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Date Reviewed: 2007 - January - 21st
All images are copyright of Udon / CAPCOM.
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