Pokémon Comics: Viz Comics™ has produced a Pokémon comic series. Luckily, I have a good source of comics, and I have found 2 of the comis books. The series is called; PokéMon: The ElectricTale of Pikachu. This is much like the cartoon anime/series, but has a few new things added, and taken out. Here reviews of 2 of the 3 comics that have been released
Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu - 1
This comic starts out a little different than the anime. It has Ash trying to catch his pikachu inside of his house. When he catchs his Pikachu, he finds Gary outside with his new Pokémon, and tells ash that he has recieved his Pokémon liscence. Ash immediately goes to get his liscense. He goes and gets a half a day courseon Pokémontraining, and he gets his liscence. From here, Ash takes off to his first goal. On the way, Misty sees his Pikachu, and runs directly toward it, and she thinks he's cute. Then she takes off. Then the who spearow chase begins! except this time, there are the evolution forms of spearows following also, Fearows.Pikachu uses his huge thundershock move to save Ash. But this time, Ash catchs one of the Fearows that were laying on the ground. During the chase, Ash also runs into misty again, and takes her bike. Pikachu is taken to a Pokémon Center, and is healed.
Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu - 2
This comic starts out with Ash wandering around a town. He finds a strange store that sells Maps on where to find Strange Pokémon. He goes in thinking the store is fishy, and trades his mankey for the map. This map leads him to Mt. Moon. Here he is in search of a clefairy, and finds one, and chaces it into the caves of Mt. Moon. He then finds out that he was lead into a nest of Onix's! he is chased through the tunnel, until it collapses on him. He wakes up to a lot of Clefairy's surrounding him, and one giant one. The giant one ends up being Prof. Oak in a costume,and he was studying the Clefairy. The Clefairy has Ash and Prof. Oak, and Bill (who met up later) attend a sacred Evolution. Three of the Clefairy were going to evolve, using the moon stone, and the full moon. The three Clefairy evolve into Clefables infront of Ash, Bill, and Oak. the story is left off there.
Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu - 3
The adventure continues, as Ash goes futher into his journey. It starts off with ash going to the Pewter City gym and battleing Brock. Ash whins the battle and aquires his first badge ever, the boulder badge. After that, he continues and his caterpie evolves into a metapod. After this Ash persues his second badge and battles misty. His goal: toi retrieve his hat from her as she rides off intoa distance in a pool ontop a lapras. Ash has to get past the Gyrados guarding the hat and misty, so he sends out his fearow. Asleep, the fearow lays sleepping on a far off rock. then he call pikachu. Pikachu refuses to get in the water. His only choice now is to send out his metapod. The metapod sits there for a little and then it evolves into Butterfree! The butterfree uses stun spore and paralyzes Gyardos and flys past it. Ash calls butterfree back and throws a rice ball at misty hitting her in the head and covering the hat. The fearow goes after the food and brings the hat back with the food.
Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu - 4
This comic starts out with pikachu battleing an abra for a saffron badge. Pikachu
quickly loses by the abras psychic powers controlling pikachu. Then a story is told about
the Haunter that haunted saffron city and ate all of sabrinas dreams. Ash decides to save
sabrina by capturing the Giant Haunter in a huge pokeball. They find the haunter and all
toss pokeballs at him. then al the pokemon battle the hug haunter. Abra uses a strong
attack and the huge pokeball is released. They catch the giant haunter and save the day.
They walk away and the haunter breaks free of the huge pokeball. Abra jumps onto pikachu
and superpowers him. Pikachu uses his super cshock t hurt the monster and ash throws his
last HyperBall. This finally catches the haunter and sabrina is relieved of her dreamless
sleep and awakes as a happy person again.
Pokémon: Pikachu Shocks Back - 1
This copmic starts with ash and brock riding a train to town. They arrive at Fuchsia
city,and look around. They watch a few races and see tons of new pokemon. They cross paths
with a young girl with a ponyta. Her names Lara and she has a broken arm. Her rival is a
racer named darion and she wont be able to race him because of her broken arm. Lara asks
ash to ride her ponyta for her in the race. Ash accepts. The race begins and Dario riding
a Dodrio is in the lead, and ash keeps a steady pace. There is a crash of pokemon and ash
and ponyta hop over the entire mess. Darios henchmen try to stop ash but he uses firespin
with ponyrta to clear them away. Dario calls out tons of water pokemon but pikachu aps
them all except one blastoise. the blastoise sprays ponyta and she falls to the ground.
Ponyta hears the voice of lara and gets up now motivated to run for lara. Ash barley pulls
ahead and grabs the winners flag. Ash and Ponyta won the race.
Pokémon: Pikachu Shocks Back - 2
Ash learns about evolutions stone, the special stones used to evolve special pokemon
such as pikachu to raichu. A young boy comes up to them and gives them a box and ruyns
off. In the box there are tree elemental stones; fire, water, and Thunder. Ash wnders
about evolving his pikachu, but refuses. The young boy named mikey is pressured to evolve
his eevee by the old evolution clan. hi brothers push him around and try to make him
evolve his eevee. Ash tries to prove that not all evolved pokemon are the best bybattleing
the brothers. he first battles the vaporeon. Pikachu easily KOs the vapoeon with an
electric attack. Then Flareon is called out. Another electric easy KO is made. And finally
jolteon is called out and mikedecides to take this battle with his eevee. They try tackle
on the jolteon, but he is to fast for the eevee. Ash uses TM31 to advance the eevees speed
in the middle of the battle. Then eevee uses mimic and uses pinmissle on the jolteon
knocking him out fast.
