It seems like BBCampbells post is labeled as a May post, making it always the last reply.
Anyway.
Now that ive read issue 06, i can give my overall opinion on the first arc.
The GOOD:
Characterizations were good. Most of them were dead-on or close enough. Some stuff was questionable, like the Sagat attack on Ryu, but its ok. Sakura bothered me (ill talk about it on the “bad”).
Art was good. I do think the backgounds could use more detail and clarity (they looked too softened and blurry, and the inking seemed sketchy), but its overall ok. The inconsistencies in pencillers was acceptable, but could be better.
Dialogue was easy to follow.
The AVERAGE:
The action was all over the place. Some was great (Ryu vs Ryu; Ken vs Ryu; Honda vs Vega; most of Akuma vs Ken and Ryu), some was ok (Bison vs Charlie, Ken vs Vega), some was pretty bad (Guile vs Birdie; Chun-li vs Charlie).
There were momments the fights had a strange pace or were hard to read (was Ryu sweeping Akuma? From that huge distance?).
The BAD:
The writing was too “Hollywood version”. It got faster and faster and faster until it just reached zero development. By the end of the story, each segment was cramped and overlapping each other.
Rose came out of nowhere, and instead of staying in the dark, gave major speeches that just had no place happening. A non-SF-fan will look at her and just say “who the hell is this chick?”. They wont be excited to find out either, theyll just feel they missed an issue.
Cammy going from active to laying in there was a big “WTF”. We had nothing in-between (just saying “she lost Ryu” doesnt cut it). Cammy was too under-developed to have ANYTHING happen to her. It was like seeing Darth Maul suddenly get a plot point with an unknown jedi saying “oh yeah, Maul, youre just like me, heres your new life”.
It made no sense.
Sakura was pretty bad too. This girl shows up in a completelly fillerish scene, and goes “oh yeah, who cares about Honda, ill go for this Ryu guy ive never heard about”. That was pretty lame.
Guile and Chun-li were pretty fine with their father/friends deaths too. Chun-li got one panel of sadness.
Some continuity issues showed up from the apparent need to make everything “cool”. In the first page of the series Bison goes from smiling > bad ass > smiling just for the sake of having a nice panel. That happened in a couple fight scenes and money shots too, like the Guile/Chun/Bison fight and when Akuma shows up for Ryu and Ken.
Overall:
It was ok. The writing is a huge issue for me, though. The Cammy and Sakura stuff didnt belong at all, and the Guile/Chun-li stuff was extremelly under-written.
The arc really needed a few more issues to develop all those plot points.
hehe pretty jokes too from what i recall “Do some better ones for me Alvin”. And he wanted like 20 or so from him. Anyways after Alvin’s arm started to kill and he went for a break, when he came back he put a pack of cigerettes in his pocket. Man, that day I went broke after buying issue #0’s to get the sketches 
She was my favorite. …but on the bright side, now it seems she’s been replaced by grumpy surly Ryu. I mean, just look at the guy mope as Sakura tags along. Hilarity :lol:
