Street Fighter IV Volume 1: Wages of Sin Hc

author: Ken Siu-Chong
name: Wayne
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2009
rating: 4
read at: 2014/07/23
date added: 2015/09/12
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
'Street Fighter IV Volume 1: Wages of Sin HC' collects a bunch of issues of the comic and introduces some new characters to the the Street Fighter universe that seem to fit right in. The art is not bad. It almost seems like cels from an animated series. The panels are colored very well.

The first few issues introduce some of the new characters. The main character is Crimson Viper and she's pretty interesting, but I liked El Fuerte too, who is a Hispanic cook/Lucha Libre fan. All the character's call out the names of their move as they do them, but El Fuerte's are named things like Tostada Press. I digress. Crimson Viper is hired by the bad guys to collect the best street fighters for a nefarious project. She does this and delivers them, but is she a hero or a villain? We do find out, but I won't spoil it here.

The characters are all larger than life and over the top, just like you'd find them in the video game. There's lots of fighting, some pretty good humor and the art is pretty good. I liked it, but let's call it a guilty pleasure.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel by Diamond Book Distributors and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.


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