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Other Comic Reviews
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Street Fighter Volume 1 Trade Paperback
This comic has awesome art and a really great story. First of all, the cover is awesome, it has Cammy in the front with Chun-Li behind her, and was drawn by the excellent Shinkiro from Capcom (look for his art in the video games, you'll recognise it). It's also got a cover gallery in the back, and has the cover art from each issue through the book as well which is pretty good! The interior and cover art is great, Alvin Lee, Arnold Tsang and the crew are some of the best in their field. This book includes other cool characters like Ryu, Ken, Sagat, Akuma and Vega. Out of all them, Akuma has the most mysterious character, and you find out more about him later on I assume.
I think the art is just fantastic and I love the style as well. I also collect the individual issues as well, I have every single issue, and one of each of the issues with Cammy on the cover as it's done by a different artist each time. In this volume, which compiles issues #0-6 of Udon's awesome Street Fighter series, Cammy is working for Shadaloo, going under the code-name "Killer Bee". She's dressed in her blue Alpha outfit because she's working for Shadaloo as M. Bison's best Doll Agent, and this story reveals some things about her past as well as her future path. You've gotta read it to find out! The story intertwines with Ryu's story as well as Chun-Li's. Each part of the story is carefully set so it makes sense and is true to the Street Fighter stories, Ken Siu-Chong has done an amazing job writing the story. That's why I consider this to have the best story so far, he's managed to take a bunch of contradictory, confusing storylines from the games and anime, and make a single, sensible, and exciting story out of it, yet still keeping extremely faithful to the original storylines. Most of the other versions of the Street Fighter story had blurred storylines and weren't very accurate either.
I can't recommend this book enough for Street Fighter and Cammy fans. The single issues are even better, but if you can't find or afford them, these trade paperbacks are an excellent way to get the whole story in one go.
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Street Fighter Volume 2 Trade Paperback
There's a lot more about Cammy in this one. This trade paperback is also a little thicker than the first one, because it has a lot more issues in this one. Included in this book are the main stories from issues #7-14 of Street Fighter, from Udon. Fei Long also has a bigger role in this volume. Blanka also makes his appearance as well. Once again, the book has a great cover gallery in the back, and there's a picture of the Power Foil Cammy cover from Issue #11 of the Street Fighter comics.
I really enjoyed this story arc, as Cammy is in Delta Red this time, and in full army gear. She learns more about her past, and comes to terms with the fact that she may have worked as a Shadaloo assassin. She has no memory of her former self except for flashbacks in her dreams. The art is amazing as always, and Cammy especially looks stunning in some of her more dramatic fighting poses. She battles Chun-Li in this one, and I won't give away the outcome so you'll have to find out for yourself. I'm glad she's had a chance to fight Chun-Li as she's a formidable fighter and they're nearly evenly matched in speed and agility.
The other storylines come together nicely as well. Chun-Li and Cammy fighting side by side against Shadaloo, mystery, suspense, and a great final battle between Ken, Ryu, Guile and Sakura against Balrog, Vega and a bunch of Shadaloo goons. The story concludes nicely, but leaves it open for the next story arc, which is coming soon in Street Fighter II.
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Super Street Fighter II Cammy Graphic Novel
About time! A graphic novel ALL about Cammy and her adventures. How good is this. There's about 5 parts with different Cammy adventures but it's set in the time she works for Delta Red, so she's a goodie this time.
It's an English translation of a Japanese manga series, compiled into a single graphic novel. Cammy's scar is on the left cheek as it's been mirrored to so you can read it from left to right and not right to left like Japanese graphic novels. This is because the Japanese language is read from right to left.
Blurb: "Because she suffers from amnesia, ruff 'n' tuff Cammy feels all alone in the world, despite her warm welcome into the elite MI6 (British Intelligence) troops. Her assignments for MI6 begin with rescuing the top secret blueprints for a high-tech weapon. Then she rushes off to Battleland, a lawless island in the Mediterranean, to investigate a new mystery on unfamiliar ground. Working with U.S. Air Force Major Guile, her mission is to climb as high in the fighting circuit as she can. Cammy has reason to worry, as five of the last Battle Rave champions mysteriously disappeared, and four resurfaced as suidicial terrorists!
But to Cammy, no fight is as frightening as the recurring memory that she has been to Battleland before - as a reluctant guest of the sinister organization Shadowloo, led by power-hungry M. Bison. What does Bison know about her memory loss? And why is Shadowloo stalking Cammy now? In her search for the answers to those questions, Cammy learns to accept the help of her newfound friends."
The graphic novel is excellent, it may be only in black and white but it was an entertaining read, and the art is really well done as well. Simple, but stylish. And you get to see Cammy wear something other than her usual Delta Red outfit. Worth a looksee this book! Not to mention Cammy looks so cute and powerful at the same time. She also uses different weapons in this book.
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Street Fighter II : The Movie Graphic Novel
This is a graphic novel adaption of the Street Fighter II movie. However, it's very different to the movie and only has about two scenes which are similar to the movie. They're the fight with Bison at the very end with Ken and Ryu, and Chun-Li fighting Vega with Guile coming to Chun-Li's rescue. It's very thick and a lot longer reading than most graphic novels. The thing I really like the most about this comic is that Cammy makes much more of an appearance, and in really cool fighting style. The other characters also play a bigger role.
The art is really strange in this comic though. Like instead of smooth inking, they've used dots everywhere to show shading and things like that. It resembles an old school style comic, very old and different. The art for the characters are similiar to the movie but very sharp and rough looking, in a classic Japanese manga style. This is a trade paperback of four issues that were released about the same time the movie was released.
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