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Oh that is definitely not this one regarding Eliza. Let me see if I can dig up the Cammy Gaiden. I might have it here or I might have it packed away

I have the Cammy Gaiden, yes. As for Eliza, um the end of the Super Street Fighter II comic takes a bizarre tonal shift and focuses on Ken & Eliza. Is that what you mean?

As a quick follow-up, I took the time to use Google Translate app on my phone on the pages and it gave me two bits of insight... 1: I was spot on about what the machine was doing. It isn't the Psycho Drive but is a ki-draining device that injects it into other warriors. Balrog was able to absorb 15% before his heart was going to overload. Vega was 20%. Sagat was 25%. Bison was able to absorb the full remaining 40%. 2: The advances in the Google Translate app are really good. Good enough that I'm considering going through the process of translating all this stuff...or at least key stuff to get a better understanding of what is going on

Ok, been going through these issues and saw something that IMMEDIATELY jumped out at me... Check this out in the Zero 3 comic Seems like some kind of Psycho Drive thing kind of? The Four Kings use it to siphon off the bestial natural energy of Blanka but it doesn't look fun. In fact it strains their hearts and they look like it's going to make them explode. As you can see, the primary feed seems to be just above the groin in the tanden point. Funny that. The machine looks REAL similar to something else... Hmm

It does not appear to be that. In fact, I've now flipped through all the manga and it builds up and then takes an ENTIRE left turn. Totally bizarre.

Alright so this is how I'm going to do it...time to start posting up issue reviews/overviews as we await more Street Fighter news. I'm going to start with this manhua for Super Street Fighter II which I've never seen before. Issue #2 (I don't have #1) So book opens up with the world having been devastated by wars making it slightly but not entirely post apocalyptic. Looks like Street Fighter and the power of the fist has begun to rule. Oh also there's dinosaurs because shut up there are. We're immediately introduced to an island nation that reminds me very much of Shad from the Kanzaki manga. Bunch of different varied areas on it including a battle arena. In a huge high rise some guys around a board table are discussing a paper that includes a rough image of Akuma. Seems like Bison is in charge of this office. Maybe it's a crime organization? Either way, Bison shows off his power by shredding the middle of the table with a touch of his fingers and a bit of psycho power, shocking the other important man in the room who is smoking a cigar. Scene changes to a huge luxury cruise ship named "Vega". Gee wonder who owns it?! Its big enough to have its own indoor golf course. Its got its own casino too and has people betting on battles between praying mantises. Sure okay. Fei-Long looking THE COOLEST HE HAS EVER BEEN walks in and bets against a muscle head regarding the mantises. We then see a scene on board the boat with crates getting moved and one is dropped and spills out a bunch of guns. Clearly this is illegal arms dealing going on. The worker gets a talking to by a mustached supervisor. The man then leaves and goes through the bowels of the boat where we see this boat seems to have HUGE ICBMS loaded in it. WOW Shadaloo's arms tech is LEGIT. As the man passes by a shadowy area we see a hint of a military boot and green pants. He's being spied on. Gotta be Guile. A mantis gets beheaded by the other. Muscle head loses the bet and gets mad at Fei Long for winning. Throw-down ensues. Over the course of a couple pages of solid fight art, Fei Long destroys the dude and throws him into a wall. People go to see what's happening with the fight and pass by a couple kissing along the ships railing. It's Ken and Eliza. Ken, however, doesn't care about the fight at the front of the ship and instead notices a small fishing boat out to see. We see a man fishing on it. Akuma.WOW introduced crazy early. He catches a huge fish but tosses it back into the water. The man rowing the boat asks Akuma something and the water gets really rough...and Akuma is GONE from the boat. When the boatman looks, he can see a wake in the water from his boat to the cruise ship...and up the side of the cruise ship in the metal of the hull are footprints. Damn, Akuma...way to make an entrance. Fei-Long continues to obliterate the big man, beating him so fiercely with rekka-kens that he pummels him in between two metal cargo containers. This is actually REALLY awesome. The big guy gets mad though and veins protrude on his brow and his eyes turn red while his teeth get sharp. Ken is the first to notice something is strange. The big guy breaks out from between the containers and is JACKED with power and there's an aura of Akuma over him. Is this dude using the SnH? The guy turns the tides on Fei-Long and lifts a CARGO CONTAINER to smash him with. Ken, however, defends him, charging up a hadoken...which we see Akuma sense. Akuma is on the other side of the cargo containers, his SnH actually traveling from his own body to that of the meat head. So he super charged the guy with SnH to test Fei-Long? Damn that's cool. Fei-Long doesn't need Ken's help though and he obliterates the entire cargo container with a flaming kick. Awesome. Ken and Fei Long have a brief exchange but Fei-Long just leaves...and finds a fishing pole (the one Akuma was using) but nothing else. The boat reaches a port on the island and we see it has its own mini Las Vegas. Yeah this is DEFINITELY reminding me of Shad now. The Street Fighter tournament is announced and begins kicking off with Ken. It looks like the tournament (as would be expected) spans across the entire island and is fought in the streets. Ken, while wandering to look for an opponent, notices a familiar red headband and leaps atop a building to find Ryu. The two square off under the moon as the issue ends. And that's it for issue 1...errr...2 I gotta say, this is really coherent and easy to follow. The art is very well structured and flows nicely and, even though I can't read it, I feel like I have no issue following up with events for the most part. Art is VERY solid. VERY. It feels inspired by the SFII Animated Movie and the SF art that was contemporary at the time. I'm impressed so far. This is all cool. Gonna put up at least one issue breakdown every day going forward. If anyone wants to know anything in particular or wants to see something, just let me know and I'll do my best. HIGHLIGHT: Akuma charging up the meat head with his own SnH to test Fei-Long was super cool. Really really neat idea and something that would be easy to incorporate into gameplay even in a non-fighting game presentation of Street Fighter. Doesn't seem absurd or 'magical' or anything like that. I really liked it.

Okay I can confirm that the Street Fighter Zero 3 manhua is the one that features history of fighters including a younger M. Bison training as part of a huge paramilitary organization under a man in a similar green uniform. This is a manhua I have seen before but I have more issues than I've seen before. Going through it quickly. I am still digging through all this stuff and organizing it. I am going to be taking pics and uploading them to here as I see neat stuff.

Buckle up, boyos... All the comics arrived today. Gonna start going through and posting up stuff I find of interest

It just occurred to me... Adelheid Bernstein is everything Ed tried to be and predates him.

Alright, lads. HK comics are on their way AND I found a service in China that will let me buy items from local China vendors and ship them to me while offering English service for very reasonable fees. I am going to be looking for other rare comics or rare books for SF and KOF and will be snatching them up. I have already managed to locate a copy of End of NESTs, a rare KOF manga only released as a convention exclusive. This book has NEVER been scanned online as far as I can see though the first two parts of the series have. The vendor had 3 copies available and I bought all 3 copies to try and preserve them considering how rare they seem to be. I am going to endeavor to recover and scan what I can for HK comics that are not otherwise available online since I consider their contents to be extremely significant to the history of SF and KOF and, as time goes on, they'll only get harder and harder to find and I would hate to see them lost to time.

The KOF 2003 manhua as well

Nope! I have the SVC: Chaos manhua. This is Capcom vs SNK and is a totally different series. I actually saw it while I was in Hong Kong but I couldn't purchase it because at the time I only had enough cash to get a few sets so I ended up getting KOF 2000 and 2001. I'm eager to see what it's like (likely it will be insane)

I just confirmed purchase of all of the sets of comics. Gonna be great to add them to my collection. I will share info and pics as soon as they arrive!

It looks like it might have been done by the same artist that did the SFIII manhua

It appears to be 20 issues long and art is varied including some interpretations of existing art from both Super and from Street Fighter Alpha

Alright so as an update, I've negotiated pricing on getting manhua sets for not only Capcom vs SNK issues but also Street Fighter Alpha/Zero 3 AND Super Street Fighter II which is a manhua I've NEVER seen before.

So um hang tight, fellas. I might have found a mother lode of rare SF comics and am currently negotiating purchase. I'll keep you updated

Oh damn that art is great!

Oh man I love ALL that stuff you posted. Love seeing stuff like that Also this particular image IS Wave Fighter Z. Like a lot of manhua it has really solid art and is really kinetic. Just very good stuff. I wish getting manhua was easier. The last time I was able to get a lot was in 2013 in Hong Kong when I took a trip and spent a few hundred dollars to get complete sets of KOF 2000, 2001 and 2002 manhua. I was also able to get in touch with a guy from Singapore on a forum and buy an entire set of KOF 0x from him (my holy grail for manhua) and then I found ANOTHER 1st issue of KOF 0x randomly on ebay as part of a Christian charity drive. Bizarre, right?? I might start hitting up some forums for KOF Remix End of NESTs because it is proving to be impossible to find. Honestly, as gonzo as a lot of the Street Fighter and KOF manhua is, I find the KOF manhua better than anything they've ever produced for a story and the SF/KOF stuff in general feels far more passionate and imaginative than what we get even if some of it is stupid. Andy Seto, however, seemed to ALWAYS do a good job with KOF and it never got as silly as the SF stuff that was contemporary. It's clear Andy is a HUGE KOF fan and loves the lore.

Found an interesting thing. More than likely entirely coincidental but maybe not considering the amount of cross pollination between manhua and fighting games... So I found a manhua called "Wave Fighter Z" which is fairly obviously a Street Fighter manhua that seems to have lost the license so the art was repurposed into an original series (more common than you might think in a lot of mediums)... Anyway...so I got to the part where they introduce Not-Guile His name? Well take a look Military guy that's a replacement Guile named "Luke" Amazing As a side note, I'm (obviously) a manhua collector. I have almost the entirety of the King of Fighters series and have been looking for Street Fighter manhua and the remaining KOF stuff I'm missing...so if anyone knows of any or has any connections, hit me up. I'm ESPECIALLY looking for King of fighters RX (Remix) End of Nests If I find anything else in Wave Fighter Z (or if anyone has any particular interest in more stuff from it) I'll post it up

In-game is better than SF5 style but it is still bad. Proportions suck, everyone is a chunky roid monster and a lot of costumes are overly busy. Lighting is also pretty garbage. Not an attractive style. Compare to something like the new SamSho that is visually gorgeous and coherent while having a similar character aesthetic to SF5 BUT with far far FAR better proportions. The cut-scene style is embarrassing. Bengus was a highly influential artist to me and the quality of work now is flat-out bad. It's such a regression in effort

SNK vs Capcom: Card Fighters Clash is out on switch. An awesome, classic game. I highly recommend it

Enough juice'll do wonders

Was going to say the same thing. Gouken is Ryu's dad in all the ways that matter

Man I want to read this manga now And nope your memory is not tricking you. In Kanzaki's manga Ryu states his hadoken is like 2/3rds the strength of Rog's punch in Rog's prime but that Rog's strength has decayed because he's gone soft from being a wannabe mobster running his Little Las Vegas on Shad island.