Viz (comics) and Christina Martin. Many "Viz" characters have featured in long-running strips, becoming well-known in their own right, including spin-off cartoons. Characters often have rhyming or humorous taglines, such as Roger Mellie, the Man on the Telly; Nobby's Piles; Johnny Fartpants; Buster Gonad; Sid the Sexist; Sweary Mary or Finbarr Saunders and his Double Entendres. Others are based on stereotypes of British culture, mostly via working class characters, such as Biffa Bacon, Cockney Wanker and The Fat Slags. In addition to this, the comic also contains plenty of 'in jokes' referring to people and places in and around Newcastle upon Tyne.
Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie game also includes a database featuring information on the characters from the film. A manga adaptation of the film was authored by Takayuki Sakai and serialized in the monthly "CoroCoro Comic" in 1994, later republished in a single tankōbon collected edition. An English adaptation of this manga was published Viz Communications as a six-issue comic book, released monthly from August 1995 to February 1996. The movie served as the basis for "Street Fighter Alpha". Many elements and character designs were integrated into future games of the series (the "Street Fighter Alpha" series in particular). The film's final battle is loosely