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| Hungrywolf 2836th Post
 
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|  "Re(3):SF Issue no.8"
, posted Tue 15 Jun 20:46
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Yes she's in Delta Red. Storyline is progressing to SF2 now I think. I missed issue 7, but am gonna pick it up tomorrow, so I don't know how things crossed from the pre-SF2 stuff to this.
They didnīt.
Udon made Cammy already part of the team, then... did a flashback to when she joined.
Yes, itīs as stupid as it sounds - and they make it even worse with the Ryu/Ken/Eliza stuff. Everybody thinks back on things that happened a month or two back (also known as "issue 6").
Considering the Cammy/Rose thing in previous issues, itīs pretty clear they have no sense of development.
Things just... happen. "Off-screen", even.
Not only we have things happenning in-between issues without any clarification or set-up, but we also have back-up stories being mentioned directly in the main plot (Ryu/Sagat and Charlie/Guile).
The writing in this comic would make even the Alpha 3 team cry.
Even so, I have to disagree with you. I've enjoyed the story in the comic and even if time skipped a little to this point between 6 and 7, I have enjoyed it and think the writing isn't that bad.
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| beto 488th Post
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| "Re(5):SF Issue no.8" , posted Tue 15 Jun 21:31
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What do you guys think? What do you guys favor?
I think theyīre too worried about showing new characters (What was the point of Honda/Vega? All that just to introduce Sakura? What was the point of Birdie/Guile? All that just to introduce Chun-li?) and new moves.
So many characters appeared already, and all they did was take time from the main characters - Ryu, Ken, Chun, Guile, Cammy.
There isnīt a single character (even the leads) that you can look and say "now that character got some nice development there".
On the other hand, itīs very easy to pick scenes that served no real purpose.
If those were dropped, maybe the pages couldīve been used to extend some dialogues or properly introduce characters.
Who is Sagat again? Oh, that guy from the back-up!
And this Fei-Long fella? Some random guy quoting Bruce Lee.
The purple woman touching Cammyīs forehead? Some... purple woman, i guess.
And so on and on and on. Thatīs what the comic feels like.
You jump to Cammy in action, then LATER you see a flashback. A really short, shitty, under-written, cliché-ridden flashback. Why go back to a flashback, when itīs been like... two months or so? Why couldnīt they just show it to us as it happened?
Whatīs the rush?
Best thing in the comic so far was Ryu and Ken talking while walking to the grave. That was dialogue. Not exposition. Just dialogue.
Something comics are supposed to have.
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| Spoon 470th Post
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| "Re(3):SF Issue no.8" , posted Wed 16 Jun 01:51
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The writing in this comic would make even the Alpha 3 team cry.
Oh ow.
I haven't followed this comic at all, but it sounds like there's some serious issues at hand if they have to tell the whole dang thing through flashbacks...
Street Fighter canon is only a thing to stick to for the gist of things like character roles etc, as it was never very well-written to begin with, with some parts downright silly (e.g. Guile). I'd rather they wrote a whole new GOOD story rather than just trying to tell us once more what we've suffered through so many times over the years with SF.
Squeezing in too many characters out of a feeling of obligation to the established character base is usually a bad thing. My favourite example must surely be the Fist of the North Star movie, where they were in a rush to include and slaughter EVERY SINGLE significant villain ever shown in the first saga in the course of 2 hours or so. Characters which Kenshiro fought for literally episodes were reduced to, "No! We don't have time to waste looking for her! What? No! Argh!". Dreamwave I think must be one of the only companies to deal with this in an at least decent way in their Transformers vs. GI Joe mini-series. Very few characters in that actually got much in the way of real development (you have Snake Eyes, and then everyone else... and who the heck was Grunt, anyway?), but it could have been much, much worse.
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| Ishmael 1466th Post
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| "Re(6):SF Issue no.8" , posted Wed 16 Jun 07:51
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I think theyīre too worried about showing new characters (What was the point of Honda/Vega? All that just to introduce Sakura? What was the point of Birdie/Guile? All that just to introduce Chun-li?) and new moves.
So many characters appeared already, and all they did was take time from the main characters - Ryu, Ken, Chun, Guile, Cammy.
SF is so decentralized -unlike KoF it doesn't have the chutzpah to have something like a "hero team"- that it could be argued that there are 70 or so main characters. The story could just as easily focus on Sagat's moral quandry after he loses to Ryu or do something odd like have Dan and Blanka go on a zany road trip when they try to go buy some White Castle hamburgers. Not having an obvious main character works great for a fighting game, since that way whatever character the player is using is the "main" character, but it makes adaptations a tricky proposition.
For my money Udon is doing the best they can with the situation: since every character is someone's favorite make sure as many characters as possible show up, make them look good, and have them kick each other in the head. That's a shallow approach but it's preferrable to other ham-handed adaptations. My personal fave example of that is the Fatal Fury 2 anime. To this day I can't decide whether Terry's drinking problem was simply ridiculous or flat-out offensive.
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Whatīs the rush?
How long do they have the license? Odds are they want to cover as much ground as possible while they have the rights to the characters and since Udon can only produce so many pages of SF comics a month it's not surprising things are getting compressed.
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| TiamatRoar 719th Post
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| "Re(8):SF Issue no.8" , posted Wed 16 Jun 22:07
I always thought the goofy adventures of Dan, Sakura, and Blanka would make for a fun comedy series, myself (throw in grumpy surly Kei if you want, too). But alas, the Street Fighter comic as it is wouldn't have room for such a thing.
In an ideal world, it'd be broken up into multiple comic series. One for Final Fight, one for Ryu (maybe slap the Chun and Guile stuff in there too, or give them their own comic but that's stretching things), one for Cammy (she sure as heck has enough canon npcs for it), one for Dan Sakura Blanka, etc etc.
But alas, this is not an ideal world and no sane business man would do something like that.
http://kattuggla.oru.se/dmd01/dm0103/test/faqs/SFplotguide40.txt
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they're duct taped to Chun's legs...
