Street Fighter Alpha, Vol. 1
This manga, based on a megapopular video game, provides background and personality to a story originally fueled only by quarters. Ryu, adrift after defeating the evil Sagat, is recruited by Interpol agent Chun-Li to track down a criminal organization operating an international fighting tournament. A franchise as popular as Street Fighter deserves something original, but, unfortunately, the story is disappointingly mundane, and action sequences in Nakahira's art are sometimes hard to follow. But even with those problems, there's enough to keep game fans interested, and we can hope that volume two will supply a few twists. King, Kevin