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I did a search, but I didn't find that anyone had discussed this, which surprised me a bit. I was taking my kids to "Free Comic Book Day" earlier, and the comic book shop also had all graphic novels and trade paperbacks for 25% off. I asked about this, and it looks like just in time (like last week) they finished packing up the first 14 episodes into two TPBs. A quick online search seems to show that there only are 14 issues so far, so I guess I'm caught up?
The TPBs don't include the "extra" short stories that are part of the mags, but do include the issue #0 prologue, and have all the main, continuous story going on. The story itself, by the way, is extremely well written. It keeps to the essence of the characters, makes them a lot more interesting than simply a set of moves and a look (of course to longtime and fanatic players like me, they always were more than that anyway). It seems to be weaving several strands of storyline (several characters in SFA1/2, SFA3 and SF2 storylines) all together. The compression is good, IMO.
I really like the relationship between Sakura and Ryu too. Oddly enough, many (let me reiterate the many) years ago, I wrote a story about a bunch of SF characters, and I had much the same vibe, so clearly it felt right to me on reading it here.
The art is also pretty cool. It should be anime-like, given the nature of the source material, but it's not so anime as to annoy me. In fact, I think they did a pretty good job of getting the right balance between anime and American comic book art styles.
And it has special covers done by Shinkiro -- how cool is that?
The TPBs don't include the "extra" short stories that are part of the mags, but do include the issue #0 prologue, and have all the main, continuous story going on. The story itself, by the way, is extremely well written. It keeps to the essence of the characters, makes them a lot more interesting than simply a set of moves and a look (of course to longtime and fanatic players like me, they always were more than that anyway). It seems to be weaving several strands of storyline (several characters in SFA1/2, SFA3 and SF2 storylines) all together. The compression is good, IMO.
I really like the relationship between Sakura and Ryu too. Oddly enough, many (let me reiterate the many) years ago, I wrote a story about a bunch of SF characters, and I had much the same vibe, so clearly it felt right to me on reading it here.
The art is also pretty cool. It should be anime-like, given the nature of the source material, but it's not so anime as to annoy me. In fact, I think they did a pretty good job of getting the right balance between anime and American comic book art styles.
And it has special covers done by Shinkiro -- how cool is that?
