The King of Fighters Maximum Impact—Maniax

    (DGN, 2005)
™ and © DGN Productions

We seem to have here all the components of a standard fighter video game. Rival clans? Check. Magical fighting powers? Check. Bad guy with cool hair and even cooler sunglasses? Check. Unfortunately, somewhere along the line they forgot to make the transition to comic form. “What? You two are brothers?” is a fine bit of dialogue when it’s pixilated on the screen, but manga readers have come to expect a bit more. Still, it provides some mindless entertainment, and if you’re not fascinated by the story, you can certainly find some humor in the tough-guy posing and attack names like “DOA Thrashing: Surreptitious Punch of the Thundergod.”

— Lorie Witkop
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