We chat about videogames and videogame accessories.

Despite a difference in styles, I get almost exactly the same vibe I got from most of those 90s video game promotional comics (like Malibu’s Street Fighter or the Johnny Turbo ads). There must be something about the typical approach to and needs of adapting these (fairly minimal by today’s standards) video games to Western comic format that gives you this particular flavor of being off-base, unhingedness, inscrutable plot/pacing, and *breathes* chEEeeEEeeEEse. (Huge guts. Rip and tear.)

I mean, some adaptations do turn out well (being only marginally related is not necessarily a bad thing). But you just know if it doesn’t click, and a number of these webcomics seem pretty shrugworthy to me. It doesn’t help that some of them do a pretty bad job of introducing newcomers to the material, though.

Of course, I’m all for them trying something new, and throwing comics folks a bone. Maybe this is something new. And sometimes the new needs a bit of practice to be good. Hey, it’s not my shareholder money they’re doing this with!