Video game comic books...

**Will** · 03 Apr 2004, 11:37 PM

Originally Posted by Melf

BTW: How much does the SF trade cost? What about each issue? I've been out of the comic loop for a while. What do they run nowadays?

Trade is $9.95 issues are $2.95 seperately.

**Melf** · 03 Apr 2004, 11:41 PM

Only $10? That's a great deal. I'll stop by my local shop this week and pick it up (if they have any).

**g0zen** · 03 Apr 2004, 11:50 PM

Something a little newer..

**Johnny Undaunted** · 03 Apr 2004, 11:57 PM

Originally Posted by g0zen

Something a little newer..

I've already mentioned the Silent Hill comic five replies back.

**Roufuss** · 04 Apr 2004, 12:02 AM

Originally Posted by Johnny Undaunted

I've already mentioned the Silent Hill comic five replies back.

And I mentioned it in the very first reply.

jp · 04 Apr 2004, 12:10 AM

NiGHTS had a 3 issue run with Archie Comics.

Speaking of the Sonic comics, those were really good comics until they started taking it WAY too seriously. Now its just way too much...
I have issues 0-32 and 99-100 (the Metal Sonic story arc, which, despite taking place after they got weird with the series, still kicks ass).

**animegirl** · 04 Apr 2004, 12:17 AM

I have a couple of Captain Nintendo comics!

**Johnny Undaunted** · 04 Apr 2004, 01:14 AM

My bad;

I gave a link at least.

As for old school comics:

There's been tons of Street Fighter comics long before Udon's adaption of the series. The first American comic was Malibu's Street Fighter ongoing series, which was so terrible that even Capcom hated it and ordered the cancellation of the series after three issues.

Later Tokuma Shoten published an English version of Masaomi Kanzaki's Street Fighter II Ryu series (since this was before manga became hip and cool, the series was colorized for all eight of it's issues). This manga is notable for bearing the first public appearance of Gouken in any form of Street Fighter-related media (although he's killed by Bison in the book, since Akuma hasn't been introduced yet by the developers).

DC comics published a mini-series based on the live-action Street Fighter, while Viz published another adaption, but for the Animated version.

Viz published Masahiko Nakahira's Cammy Gaiden mini-series as part of their Game On! USA magazine. Masahiko Nakahira's subsequent Street Fighter manga series carried big influences over subsequent Street Fighter (Evil Ryu and Sakura's rival, Karin, were his creations), but none of them has been translated so far.
http://www.megspace.com/arts/rcllair/manga.htm

The now-defunct Valiant Comics published several Nintendo-based comics such as the Nintendo Comic System, Super Mario Bros., Captain N and a Game Boy one-shot.

Nintendo Power later published colored manga based on their games, such as Super Mario Adventures (by Charlie Nozawa, which evolved to Mario vs. Wario), Zelda: A Link to the Past (by the late great Shotaro Ishimori), Star Fox and Metroid (both by Benimaru Itoh). The first two (minus the second Mario vs. Wario one-shot) were published as TPBs.

Archie Comics, prior to doing Sonic, did a short-lived Bayou Billy comic series to hype the game. Like Sonic, Bayou Billy took a few liberties by giving a Billy his own group of ethnically-correct sidekicks and turning the game damsel in distress into his lawyer as well. Konami hasn't branched off any of their properties into comic books up until now.

Marvel Comics did a Double Dragon limited series, but it might as well had been just another generic superhero-book. The comic bore no resemblance to the game and turned Billy and Jimmy into psudeo-superheroes (having their powers originating from a dragon statue). instead of the badass martial artists they were. It was meant to be a forerunner for an ongoing series, but thankfully it never happened (too bad it served as a basis for that horrible cartoon and movie). The instruction manga in the Famicom version of Double Dragon III was way better. Marvel also published a Virtua Fighter one-shot (the cover art was used on Virtua Fighter Remix).

Wildstorm published a Resident Evil "Comic Magazine" for five or six issues and then later a Hong Kong adaption of Code: Veronica in English (there's quite a few of Biohazard comics in Hong Kong).

Malibu published several Mortal Kombat comics during the popularity of the first two games, written by John Tobias I believe. They were a bit more successful than Malibu's Street Fighter adaption.

A few Tekken comics were made. Can't remember the publisher though.