Mark's Epic Blog of Randomness

By Mark Rodriguez After helping Rainbow Mika defeat Zangief in a wrestling match, Sakura Kasugano gets a challenge from her arch rival Karin Kanzuki, in anything she wants. Sakura goes for a hot dog eating contest, and Karin agrees in exchange for her next challenge to be at the format and time she chooses. Honda holds the contest and Sakura's friends notice that Karin was cheating by feeding all her hot dogs to her butler hidden under the table. Sakura, having stuffed herself silly, is in no condition to fight, so Karin declares that NOW is the time for her challenge and dashes at her with several men by her side. Sakura already considers this to be a losing battle and prepares to go down fighting. Suddenly, Karin gets bashed in the face by a volleyball. Sakura's friends aren't gonna take this sitting down, and Karin angrily sends her men after them instead. Natsu and Hinata do their tag team move, and the volleyball gal takes most of the men down with her Volleyball Armag...

By Mark Rodriguez Sakura had recently watched Rainbow Mika wrestle live, and actually helped her defeat Zangief. A few days later... just when everything returned to normal, Karin Kanzuki arrives in a helicopter and challenges Sakura to a rematch. Let's see what happens. The issue opens with Dan about to face off against Sakura. Just as Dan dashes in to attack, Sakura tosses a huge red gem at him. Dan is confused and then sees several red gems fall from the sky, until eventually a giant-sized one squishes him. He wakes up in the hospital, and ironically the person sitting next to him is playing Gem Fighter. The nurse turns on the TV for him and it's showing media coverage of Karin's helicopter entrance. Karin challenges Sakura to a rematch and the 'headbanded wondergirl', as the news reporter called her, tells her she's too busy with her training and doesn't have time to keep beating her over and over again. Karin says Sakura is scared of embarrassing hersel...

By Mark Rodriguez Inspired by a webchat with Ryu, Sakura decides to find new and different fighers so she can learn and adapt from their fighting styles. She drags her friend Kei along to watch Rainbow Mika fight against Zangief. After Mika wins the battle, Sakura and Kei meet her for autographs, but suddenly Zangief, not understanding the showmanship of American wrestling/Sports Entertainment (cause I guess in Russia it's real?), comes in looking for a rematch!!! This issue opens with a flashback as Dan interrupts a training session between Gouken, Ryu and Ken, demanding he take him back as a pupil. Gouken says there isn't room for some as prideful and vengeful as him in his class, and Ken add in 'and besides, you suck'. Dan challenges Ryu and Ken to a fight, at the same time, and Gouken agrees that if he can beat them both, he can return as his pupil. The fight of Ryu and Ken VS Dan goes pretty much as you'd expect, with the duo juggling him in mid-air with their ...

By Mark Rodriguez Sakura lives a busy life. She's inspired by Ryu and wants to fight like him, already learning his moves and . Dan follows her around claiming to her sensei, and by default, that makes her a friend of Blanka. She's friends with a girl named Kei and Hinata from the Rival Schools series (Sakura even cameos in that game), and she has a rival named Karin. Let's see what adventures Udon has in store for her. The issue starts with Dan challenging Sakura to a fight, saying he has a lot to teach her. Sakura beats the living hell out of him, while Dan in his usual delusions considers that he gave her the win. Dan ended up in the hospital after that match... We see that Dan is telling this story to some kids... that are even wondering why he's talking to them. He says he must have a rematch with Sakura and possibly make her his student... and then he rolls away. The next day, Sakura is speeding on her bike being late for school. Sakura barely makes it on time and...