I tend to be bit critical on how art styles from different types of media or franchises can come together but it makes me really happy how the many German Club Nintendo Comics from the 90’s seems to make most of the Nintendo-characters (and beyond) characters fit in seamlessly (Emphasis on most).
I guess it’s the combination of art styles being enough toony and simplistic from these franchises to blend in (helped by those art style depictions from that time) and the comic illustrator being good with what he did that he’d even make sure some more actiony/serious art styles are translated via toning down or exaggarating simple but defining features of some characters - like Street Fighters here. Though I gotta keep admitting that a lot of the stories were on the weird side.
The hilarious hindsight has to be that these things predated SSB4. Big time.
But even then, I love crossovers in general so discovering these were a pleasant surprise- and gives me some proof that this kind of thing can be done.
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This sums up well some of the things I find appealing about the Club Nintendo comics. As a note to the author, if you’re after more of these in English or need some links to where to find almost all of them, please check out my Club Nintendo Comics Database, a simple spreadsheet that I try to keep up to date.