Official UDON Q&A thread [Archive]

MattMoylan

09-04-2008, 02:38 PM

Is the storyline for the Third Strike characters pretty thorough? The characters in Third Strike have really intrigued me and I would like to know if their backgrounds will be thorough.

The SF3 characters have much less existing backstory than those from SFII or Alpha, but we’ll work to stay true to what has already come before, and also definitely expand their stories. One of the best part of working with SF3 is that we hav ea lot of room to add our own contributions to the SF mythos.

ya know sumtin i always wanted know...why so many asian artists. it seems like the predominate race working in udon when their are tons of good artists in general.

We’re a company based in Toronto, which happens to have a large Asian population, so that’s pretty much the reason. Though still we do have a lot of artists working with us from different places – Mexico, Norway, Korea, Hong Kong, Australia, and all over Canada and the U.S.

So what's the deal with all the books that are currently on hiatus? I know the team is working real hard on HDR, but is there any announcement on when the comics will restart (ie. Darkstalkers, SF2, etc etc).

We’re done with HD Remix, so that’s off our plate. If you haven’t heard the news though, the comics are back! Beginning with Street Fighter Remix #0(on sale today!), then continuing with next month’s Street Fighter II Turbo #1, and two more new SF series starting soon.

Darkstalkers will be back as well, but we want to get the SF comics off to a good start first. Next year IS the Darkstalkers 15th anniversary...sounds like a good time for some DS projects, yes? Until then you’ll have to fill the time with Darkstalkers Graphic File, the ultimate DS art and history book on sale October 2008.

OK hmmm, umm any chance you can get Alex Ross to do a spread with all the SF characters?

Unlike a lot of Street Fighter fans who are children of the 80s, Ross grew up in the 70s so SF doesn’t have the same nostalgia factor for him as it does the rest of us. Would be great to have him do a piece, but he’s so huge that he can pretty much pick and choose what projects he wants to do, and I don’t think he’ll want to do SF. We can always hope though!

Also are there any plans on making a Rockman/Megaman comic? If so how do you want the atmosphere of that series to be like?

Lots of Mega Man fans here at UDON! Unfortunately the series Dreamwave did a few years back left a bad taste for a lot of fans, so we’d like to make sure people have a chance to forget it before tackling the blue bomber. We do have other Mega Man projects in the works though – the Mega Man Zero Official Complete Works art book is out now, and we have another art book planned for sometime next year featuring all the artwork behind the classic Mega Man and Mega Man X.

When the heck are you gonna make SF Legends: Dan Hibiki?! Please make it the 3rd Legends series!

Dan will be playing a part in both the upcoming Street Fighter Legends: Chun-Li series, as well as in SF II Turbo. There have also been some ideas floating around for some sort of Dan-centric project. So we’ll see, might depend on how loud the fans cry out for more Dan ;)

This is regarding the Korean Comics you publish in English; is there any chance you can license the Korean Comic Ares in the US? That is one of the best Shonen-type comics I've ever read and I really think it'll impress a lot of western readers.

It’s possible. I hadn’t heard of the series before but the art does look interesting.

-Will UDON ever do art that in turn will be sculpted as figures or statues? I know that the new Revoltech Optimus Prime and Megatron were both made according to Pat Lee's artstyle. It would be cool to see any of the SF characters after UDON's SF art

We actually already have! Last year’s Akuma Limited Edition Statue (http://www.sideshowtoy.com/?page_id=4489&sku=5409) was designed by UDON’s own Alvin Lee, and before that we produced a series of our own Street Fighter busts. Hopefully we get the chance to do more in the future.

-Apart from the SF3 comic, is there going to be anything else with SF3? SF3 has a good sized but faithful following.
Maybe, we’ve been considering continuing the Street Jam Poster (our best-selling poster!) to include the SF 3 & 4 cast... how would you like that? Also there are tons of new SF3 pieces in our 300+page Street Fighter Tribute art book, on sale at the end of the month.

I've always wondered if Rose rescuing Killer Bee from Shadaloo in the SF comic was at least in part inspired by Cammy's X-Men vs. Street Fighter ending since there it seems like Psylocke is the one who brings Cammy to MI-6 (in that game only). And of course there are similarities, with both Psylocke and Rose having purple hair. Also Psylocke at that time could potentially erase Killer Bee's mind same as Rose did in the comics, not that Psylocke actually did in X-Men vs. SF of course because she didn't.

From Ken: “Haha, actually, I never thought of that. It's pure coincidence.”

I just wanna harass you to reprint the Ultimate Edition.

Like I’ve mentioned before, we did try resoliciting it last year, but did not receive enough orders to do a new printing. That said, we are playing around with some ideas to get Ultimate Edition or a similarly formatted edition, back in print.

SOBiby256

09-04-2008, 04:21 PM

Greetings!

I just bought the new SF Remix and I really can't wait for the rest of the issues!

My question regarding the SF Legends series

Are you all thinking about making "Street Fighter Legends: Final Fight" in the future?

vasili10

09-04-2008, 04:52 PM

and we have another art book planned for sometime next year featuring all the artwork behind the classic Mega Man and Mega Man X.

R20 eh? Nice choice:tup:. RM/MM fans will absolutely adore this book. I know I am.:bgrin: Now if only Capcom would make a similar book for SF.:pray:

str[e]ak

09-04-2008, 05:45 PM

Maybe, we’ve been considering continuing the Street Jam Poster (our best-selling poster!) to include the SF 3 & 4 cast... how would you like that?

omg. that would be fantastic. please look into it. :pleased:

Sano

09-04-2008, 05:46 PM

A coincidence huh? Ah good to know thanks. Guess it's true what they say, great minds think alike. :tup:

COMMONSENSE

09-04-2008, 05:49 PM

Maybe, we’ve been considering continuing the Street Jam Poster (our best-selling poster!) to include the SF 3 & 4 cast... how would you like that? Also there are tons of new SF3 pieces in our 300+page Street Fighter Tribute art book, on sale at the end of the month.
Words wouldnt describe how incredible that would be :sad: I be sure to get anything SF3. Im so excited by the upcoming series and want to thank everyone at UDON for your dedication and hard work. How far is Capcom allowing yall to go as far as the storyline goes in Street Fighter?

Artayes

09-04-2008, 07:09 PM

Maybe, we’ve been considering continuing the Street Jam Poster (our best-selling poster!) to include the SF 3 & 4 cast... how would you like that? Also there are tons of new SF3 pieces in our 300+page Street Fighter Tribute art book, on sale at the end of the month.

That would be fantastic! Please make that happen! I'll buy 10 of these suckers!
But please add POISON and EFFIE with Hugo and Necro PLEASE in the poster! that would be just a dream come true for all the characters to be on it, especially the sf 3 characters!

-you guys do plan on putting in ALL the sf 3 characters in the comic ,right? and I assume if the series does well you will extend it and keep going with it?

you guys are the best!

Akutabi Gamma

09-05-2008, 03:29 AM

Unlike a lot of Street Fighter fans who are children of the 80s, Ross grew up in the 70s so SF doesn’t have the same nostalgia factor for him as it does the rest of us. Would be great to have him do a piece, but he’s so huge that he can pretty much pick and choose what projects he wants to do, and I don’t think he’ll want to do SF. We can always hope though!
haha, yeah I agree!

Lots of Mega Man fans here at UDON! Unfortunately the series Dreamwave did a few years back left a bad taste for a lot of fans, so we’d like to make sure people have a chance to forget it before tackling the blue bomber. We do have other Mega Man projects in the works though – the Mega Man Zero Official Complete Works art book is out now, and we have another art book planned for sometime next year featuring all the artwork behind the classic Mega Man and Mega Man X.
People still have memories of the old comic huh? I personally think they overcame it and would IMMEDIATELY welcome an UDON version what with the reputation you guys have :)

Dan will be playing a part in both the upcoming Street Fighter Legends: Chun-Li series, as well as in SF II Turbo. There have also been some ideas floating around for some sort of Dan-centric project. So we’ll see, might depend on how loud the fans cry out for more Dan ;)
They're about as loud as the DC fans who want the animated Teen Titans: Judas Contract movie ;)
...and Dan's gonna be in the SF Chun movie?! Now you've given me a reason to watch it XD Thanks.

It’s possible. I hadn’t heard of the series before but the art does look interesting.
I hope you will publish it in English eventually :tup:

Sano

09-05-2008, 06:44 AM

...and Dan's gonna be in the SF Chun movie?! Now you've given me a reason to watch it XD Thanks.

He never said that. 'Steet Fighter Legends Chun-Li' is a comic book. Not to be confused with the new live action movie, 'Street Fighter The Legend of Chun-Li.'

TornadoFlame

09-05-2008, 07:03 AM

I'm gonna be EXTREMELY biased on this one. I know Alex is main agenda for SF3, but I really want some strong Makoto fillers in there too. My question is, will there be alot of love for Makoto and her following Ryu for a fight? I want the same details as when Sakura was looking for her. I think there is so much potential to Makotos character. Everything including her special intros with Sean, Dudley, Ibuki, Yun, Yang, Akuma, and even Ryu himself. It's almost like a story is being told just thru the character intros that she went thru alot just to find him. I NEEDS it sir :lol:.

Sano

09-05-2008, 09:15 AM

Hey any chance of Ingrid showing up in the comic, even as a cameo of sorts?

I know some people don't like her and stuff - her fans like myself are few and far between lol - but maybe she can just be a punching bag for Sakura or Karin? :rofl:

T-hawk

09-05-2008, 09:33 AM

Hey any chance of Ingrid showing up in the comic, even as a cameo of sorts?

I know some people don't like her and stuff - her fans like myself are few and far between in the United States lol - but maybe she can just be a punching bag for Sakura or Karin? :rofl:

i would only like ingrid to have a cameo if in it she either gets violently murdered by claw or smashed by a truck so badly that even her soul dies with her so she wont even be resurrected if one day resurrection becomes possible.

maxx

09-05-2008, 09:41 AM

will the comics ever do a dudley vs balrog?

EndLeSS8

09-05-2008, 09:52 AM

We actually already have! Last year’s Akuma Limited Edition Statue (http://www.sideshowtoy.com/?page_id=4489&sku=5409) was designed by UDON’s own Alvin Lee, and before that we produced a series of our own Street Fighter busts. Hopefully we get the chance to do more in the future.

Maybe, we’ve been considering continuing the Street Jam Poster (our best-selling poster!) to include the SF 3 & 4 cast... how would you like that? Also there are tons of new SF3 pieces in our 300+page Street Fighter Tribute art book, on sale at the end of the month.

Thanks for the answers!

That statue was awesome! It is really well scupted. I kinda do wish there was a smaller PVC version...soooo

Do you guys plan on doing PVC statues?

A new poster with the SF3 cast would be AWESOME. I would definitely buy it.
The SF4 cast, it's a bit too early to call for me :bgrin:
I plan on buying the SF Tribute when it is out.

I REALLY hope that in the SF3 comic, that there is less of an emphasis on Chunli, and more of an emphasis with Urien/Gill and Alex/Gill. It also would be epic to have a meeting between Oro and Akuma.

Sano

09-05-2008, 09:56 AM

i would only like ingrid to have a cameo if in it she either gets violently murdered by claw or smashed by a truck so badly that even her soul dies with her so she wont even be resurrected if one day resurrection becomes possible.

People in SF land can't be killed by trucks. Didn't you watch SF2 The Animated Movie? "TEEZAAAAAH!" LA... LA LA.... :looney:

Akutabi Gamma

09-05-2008, 10:36 AM

He never said that. 'Steet Fighter Legends Chun-Li' is a comic book. Not to be confused with the new live action movie, 'Street Fighter The Legend of Chun-Li.'

I am made of FAIL ;_;, Sano plz stab both my eyes so I may never make silly mistakes like these again ;_;

Sano

09-05-2008, 10:46 AM

Nah the titles are really similar. :smile:

Frankfurt

09-05-2008, 11:33 AM

Why doesn't Udon... down-size? Udon still hasn't been able to do a regular monthly comic with consistent quality. It always ends up late, with strange schedules (like hiatus and so on) and/or with multiple artists filling in.

Pick one comic, do it monthly, with one artist.

That's it.

After it's done, move to the next title.

Also, make sure you don't give different titles to the same artist (like Alvin Lee showing up in Marvel titles and Street Fighter at the same time).

You guys need to stop trying to tackle everything and commit.

I'm 100% sure retailers have told you all this before.

Artayes

09-05-2008, 12:52 PM

I REALLY hope that in the SF3 comic, that there is less of an emphasis on Chunli, and more of an emphasis with Urien/Gill and Alex/Gill. It also would be epic to have a meeting between Oro and Akuma.

-YES,PLEASE do not focus much on Chun Li. she should be a very small focus at best, at least until after 12 or so issues should she not be much in it at all. focal points on also like Endless said with Urien/Alex/Gill(which would also include Necro/effie,Twelve and his kind)

-Akuma and ORO must fight! This is something I have waited forever for. I want to see this.Udon, I know you guys won't let me down like you didn't with Akuma vs Gen.

-EACH AND EVERY sf 3 character must be featured in this comic! DO NOT leave out any of them! INCLUDING HUGO/POISON/Q/TWELVE/REMY/MAKOTO/ETC

thanks from a fan who is desperately craving and awaiting this fantastic sf 3 series since you guys are the only ones who is going to provide it!

*Please,Matt and those at Udon consider that Chun Li is having a movie,own comic,in every version of the comics,and main girl from sf 4, so please don't overload us with too much chun li in sf 3 comic as well, and don't have her be in any way a focal point and instead focus more on the other girls-Ibuki,Makoto and Elena

maxx

09-06-2008, 01:32 AM

-YES,PLEASE do not focus much on Chun Li. she should be a very small focus at best, at least until after 12 or so issues should she not be much in it at all. focal points on also like Endless said with Urien/Alex/Gill(which would also include Necro/effie,Twelve and his kind)

-Akuma and ORO must fight! This is something I have waited forever for. I want to see this.Udon, I know you guys won't let me down like you didn't with Akuma vs Gen.

-EACH AND EVERY sf 3 character must be featured in this comic! DO NOT leave out any of them! INCLUDING HUGO/POISON/Q/TWELVE/REMY/MAKOTO/ETC

thanks from a fan who is desperately craving and awaiting this fantastic sf 3 series since you guys are the only ones who is going to provide it!

*Please,Matt and those at Udon consider that Chun Li is having a movie,own comic,in every version of the comics,and main girl from sf 4, so please don't overload us with too much chun li in sf 3 comic as well, and don't have her be in any way a focal point and instead focus more on the other girls-Ibuki,Makoto and Elena

lol god if they write remy like he's gambit imma bust a gut laughing.

Ansatsuken-TKD

09-06-2008, 05:18 PM

Here are some HD Remix questions:

1) From start to end, how much time was spent redrawing the art for STHD?

2) Most of the folks who've been following the work on HD Remix know that your general direction on the art is based on Capcom artist Edayan's work. Was there a point in the design process where you felt that style needed tweaking? Did any other influences take precedence?

3) I'm a huge storyline buff! (Don't know if you can answer this one...) How accurate will the new endings be compared to the Street Fighter II portion of the SF Plot guide by Tiamat? Will you take a page out of ST Revival on GBA or will you go in a completely different direction?

4) Does Gouki STILL look like a monkey with no neck in his horse stance? LOL

5) Two parter: will Ken's and Ryu's animations continue to look ultra wonky - and are their heads still somewhat angled toward the screen?

MattMoylan

09-06-2008, 10:25 PM

Are you all thinking about making "Street Fighter Legends: Final Fight" in the future?

We won’t be doing Final Fight in that way, no... BUT... well, let’s just say if you like Metro City, keep reading Street Fighter II Turbo ;)

How far is Capcom allowing yall to go as far as the storyline goes in Street Fighter?

Capcom gives us pretty much free reign story-wise. We of course send everything to the high-ups at the big C for approvals, but as far as I recall they’ve never asked us to change anything. Not that they don’t care, but they have faith in what UDON produces. In fact the main comment Ono-san had for UDON at our last Capcom meeting was “Just keep on doing what you guys do!”

you guys do plan on putting in ALL the sf 3 characters in the comic ,right? and I assume if the series does well you will extend it and keep going with it?
My question is, will there be a lot of love for Makoto and her following

Don’t want to give away any spoilers yet, but I promise we will be covering a pile of the next generation of fighters in our sf3 stories. And if SF3 comics turn out to be popular then of course we’ll do more!

Hey any chance of Ingrid showing up in the comic, even as a cameo of sorts?

Since she has appeared in an SF game (SF Alpha 3 MAX) we could use Ingrid if we wanted to. Some ideas have been tossed around, but nothing has stuck yet. If we do use her it won’t be for a while, but she does make a few appearances in the Street Fighter Tribute book. (In fact every playable character appears in the book at some point except for one... poor Eagle!)

will the comics ever do a dudley vs balrog?

Heh, it’s of course one of the obvious matchups we could do. No concrete plans yet, but one of our hopes for the SF3 stories is to do some interesting matchups that couldn’t actually happen in the games.

Do you guys plan on doing PVC statues?
UDON doesn’t decide on those projects these days, others just come to us when they need designs or art. But several companies now have SF statue & figure licenses, so you’ll have to bug them! ;)

Why doesn't Udon... down-size? Udon still hasn't been able to do a regular monthly comic with consistent quality. It always ends up late, with strange schedules (like hiatus and so on) and/or with multiple artists filling in.

Pick one comic, do it monthly, with one artist. That's it. After it's done, move to the next title.

Also, make sure you don't give different titles to the same artist (like Alvin Lee showing up in Marvel titles and Street Fighter at the same time).
The new Turbo series will essentially be monthly, with a 1-month break every 3 months to catch up. But don’t fret because with 3 street fighter series going, every month will have at least 1 newSF comic come out (usually 2 once 2009 gets going).

No problem with artists being over used, since there is no art team crossover at all between our 3 titles. No even on colours, since both Chamba and Omar Dogan are also colouring their own titles. They’re multi-skilled fellows!

Here are some HD Remix questions:

1) From start to end, how much time was spent redrawing the art for STHD?

2) Most of the folks who've been following the work on HD Remix know that your general direction on the art is based on Capcom artist Edayan's work. Was there a point in the design process where you felt that style needed tweaking? Did any other influences take precedence?

3) I'm a huge storyline buff! (Don't know if you can answer this one...) How accurate will the new endings be compared to the Street Fighter II portion of the SF Plot guide by Tiamat? Will you take a page out of ST Revival on GBA or will you go in a completely different direction?

4) Does Gouki STILL look like a monkey with no neck in his horse stance? LOL

5) Two parter: will Ken's and Ryu's animations continue to look ultra wonky - and are their heads still somewhat angled toward the screen?

1)We worked on HD for over a year doing the sprites, backgrounds, char selects, and endings... heck of a lot of work!

2)If you’ve seen the earliest release sprite examples, you’ll notice there was a major style change at one point. The original style(more heavily rendered) was dropped largely due to the problems we found arose when animating the sprites within the limits of the original game code. I think the simpler colouring style (influences more by Alpha) worked out really great in the end.

3)The endings are top secret before the game comes out, but I think you’ll want to try beating the game with every character, just to see what we came up with. ;)

4&5) Not sure what the specific issues you mentioned are, but we did go over every character for tweaks after Capcom tested them within the game.

Zamuel

09-06-2008, 10:39 PM

-Will your covers be more "accurate"? There were some times when covers featured characters who didn't show up in the issue which wound up being rather disappointing.

-While the book needs to be centered on the events of SF2, will the Shadowloo dolls get proper closure in upcoming issues?

-In a sort of connected question, was Santamu's ethnicity ever confirmed? There was minor debate a while back over her name translating in Vietnamese but her seeming to be African.

-Will Eagle and Maki cameo? Well, I sould probably just ask about Eagle since Maki is connected to the Final Fight characters and I remember there being difficulties in doing them justice due to licensing.

maxx

09-07-2008, 01:15 PM

-Will your covers be more "accurate"? There were some times when covers featured characters who didn't show up in the issue which wound up being rather disappointing.
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lol its called fanservice. alot of comics do that kinda cover.

Leo Sal

09-07-2008, 02:27 PM

Hello Matt! Got some Q's for you...

1) Has UDON ever considered ending the monthly books and publishing the stories as GN/TPBs?

2)Would UDON consider doing a "Shonen Jump" anthology jam featuring the Capcom licenses that would come out once a year?

3)Ever though of making Street Fighter Legends a monthly book, with different, revolving creative teams attached to different characters? Something like DC's Superman/Batman series?

3)Is there a chance we could get a darker, more tragic Legends, featuring characters like Akuma, Gen, Sagat or Balrog, for example.

Thanks for your time, and keep being awesome!

T-hawk

09-07-2008, 05:10 PM

i have a few questions:

1- will you guys consider a street fighter 1 comic? like a story abt the first tournament with characters like eagle, geki and lee?

2- have you guys thought of adapting your sf story into an anime series (that will be a wish come true for me)

3- do you have any plans for distributing your comics digitally?

4- since udon did the hd remix endings does this mean that the sf comics are now becoming cannon by capcom?

thank you

Buri

09-07-2008, 05:21 PM

Are you guys going to be at the New York anime fest? It would give me a reason to go. Omar Dogan drew me a GREAT Makoto picture.

Mikhal

09-07-2008, 05:59 PM

Is the voiceovers in the Street Fighter Animated Comic going to be English only? Hoping for the possibility of a Japanese track.

vasili10

09-07-2008, 07:36 PM

3)The endings are top secret before the game comes out, but I think you’ll want to try beating the game with every character, just to see what we came up with. ;)

So, does that mean you will leak some or all of them when the game does come out? My previous impression was that you wouldn't be changing any outcomes or script.:wonder:

Sano

09-07-2008, 09:36 PM

Matt - No Eagle in the art book ah man... Still, I'm even more excited about the Tribute book now so thanks! :tup:

LostPhrack

09-07-2008, 09:46 PM

Are all the Udon comics going to be $4 from now on, or..?

Akutabi Gamma

09-08-2008, 12:17 AM

Will there be cameos from the SFEX characters in any of the 3 series like in SF Legends: Sakura?

MattMoylan

09-08-2008, 08:37 PM

-Will your covers be more "accurate"? There were some times when covers featured characters who didn't show up in the issue which wound up being rather disappointing.

Most of the covers for Turbo will be very story accurate, besides the few special covers that have a good reason for other characters. Turbo #1 for example features all 8 original playable SFII characters.

-While the book needs to be centered on the events of SF2, will the Shadowloo dolls get proper closure in upcoming issues?

Won’t get into detailed spoilers, but even though SFII is the focus, many non-SFII characters will appear, including at least a few dolls.

--In a sort of connected question, was Santamu's ethnicity ever confirmed? There was minor debate a while back over her name translating in Vietnamese but her seeming to be African.

I don’t think we were specific, but as far as I know we intended Santamu to be Vietnamese. Her skin & hair however may have printed a smidge darker than intended.

--Will Eagle and Maki cameo? Well, I sould probably just ask about Eagle since Maki is connected to the Final Fight characters and I remember there being difficulties in doing them justice due to licensing.

No specific plans for Eagle. As for Maki and other characters first appearing in Final Fight... any licensing difficulties no longer exist. They’re fair game ;)

1) Has UDON ever considered ending the monthly books and publishing the stories as GN/TPBs?
2)Would UDON consider doing a "Shonen Jump" anthology jam featuring the Capcom licenses that would come out once a year?
3)Ever though of making Street Fighter Legends a monthly book, with different, revolving creative teams attached to different characters? Something like DC's Superman/Batman series?
4)Is there a chance we could get a darker, more tragic Legends, featuring characters like Akuma, Gen, Sagat or Balrog, for example.

1) The main reason any publisher still does monthly comics is the up-front cost of producing artwork. 120+ pages of artwork upfront is a LOT to pay for, but if we’re paying for it in 22 page chunks, and getting money back from the comics every month, it helps spread out the costs a lot.

2) Well, let us get on track with Street Fighter books again first, then we can look at a bigger project like that!

3) We’ll probably keep the same format for now, each new Legends will be a short mini-series. This gives us the chance to do a new #1 for each seperate story arc, which signals a good jumping on point for new readers. About the rotating creative teams...Even though Ken Siu-chong & Omar Dogan have done the first two Legends series doesn’t mean other UDON creators won’t get a shot, eventually other creators will likely get a shot at a Legends story.

4) Mayyyyybe.... Actually Chun-li Legends is a bit more serious than the last Legends series...prepare for at least one very dark and tragic moment.

1- will you guys consider a street fighter 1 comic? like a story abt the first tournament with characters like eagle, geki and lee?
2- have you guys thought of adapting your sf story into an anime series (that will be a wish come true for me)
3- do you have any plans for distributing your comics digitally?
4- since udon did the hd remix endings does this mean that the sf comics are now becoming cannon by capcom?

1)We probably won’t be doing an SF1 comic exactly (I mean, we’ve already spoiled the ending of that tournament... Ryu wins!), but plenty of SF1 characters have shown up in our books already. We’ve had both Geki and Restu appear so far, and Lee has been mentioned a few times. More cameos like this will turn up over time.

2)That’d be great! Maybe one day we’ll get the chance to turn an udon story into animated form. For now though the closest thing is the animated UDON comics coming soon from Eagle One Media.

3)We are experimenting with digital distribution. Not sure yet if we’ll include the Capcom comics, but we have recently begun UDON Combo!, and online free anthology manga series. Check out it out here (http://www.crunchyroll.com/publisher/Udon).

4)If you’d like the comics to be cannon then sure! With so many games, animes, comics, manga, movies... the fans are pretty much the ones who decide what is and is not cannon, so it’s up to you ;) We do of course try to work as much of the game story and the ‘spirit’ of street fighter into our comics.

Are you guys going to be at the New York anime fest? It would give me a reason to go. Omar Dogan drew me a GREAT Makoto picture.

We probably will not be at NYAF this year. But if plans change it will be announced on udoncomics.com .

Is the voiceovers in the Street Fighter Animated Comic going to be English only? Hoping for the possibility of a Japanese track.

We’re not involved in the animated comics directly besides providing our artwork, so I don’t know for sure. But I would guess that it will be English only. As far as I know all of Eagle One’s dvd’s art English only.

So, does that mean you will leak some or all of them when the game does come out? My previous impression was that you wouldn't be changing any outcomes or script.:wonder:

Can’t give any more info on the endings, you’ll just have to wait and see in the game ;)

Are all the Udon comics going to be $4 from now on, or..?

Looks that way. Rising production costs have necessitated the cover price increase to $3.95, which is pretty standard these days for many independent publishers. With more dollars on the line for consumers though, we know it is even more important that the books come out on schedule, and that they are top quality.

Will there be cameos from the SFEX characters in any of the 3 series like in SF Legends: Sakura?

Unfortunately, not going to happen. May come as a suprise but Street Fighter EX is not actually a Capcom game. It was produced by a company called Arika, and the Street Fighter name and characters were licensed to be included into the game (similar to Sonic in Smash brothers). The original characters (Skullomania, Pullum etc...) are owned by Arika, so we would need their permission. As for SF legends Sakura... um... SHHHHH!

Zamuel

09-09-2008, 07:15 AM

I don’t think we were specific, but as far as I know we intended Santamu to be Vietnamese. Her skin & hair however may have printed a smidge darker than intended.

While it's not a "problem" per se, it's just an intriguing debate that's been going on since before the Udon comics premiered, part of which is in the SF Story FAQ. Obviously name translation usually equals country of origin (and the dolls lack true bios) but Santamu seemed odd in just how dark she was in the original Capcom image combined with her having a monkey, a spear, and anklets on one leg that are similar to Elena's. Part of the discussion was reinvigorated a while back by Udon's explanation of exactly how Juli was German yet part of T.Hawk's tribe to cover his SFA3 ending.

dodgers2213

09-09-2008, 11:28 AM

Thank you very much for doing this, Matt

Without spoilers, can you hint at how much Cammy we'll be seeing in the next comic series? :P

Unfortunately, thats all i can think of right now

MattMoylan

09-09-2008, 03:53 PM

Thank you very much for doing this, Matt

Without spoilers, can you hint at how much Cammy we'll be seeing in the next comic series? :P

Unfortunately, thats all i can think of right now

How about checking out the SFII Turbo #2 cover (http://www.udonentertainment.com/blog/?p=377)...at least that much ;)

Artayes

09-09-2008, 05:42 PM

Hey Matt

thanks for the answers so far! you guys really rock!

-will you still be doing powerfoils like before? I collect them all and wondering if we will see the Gen,Karin,dolls that got canceled as well as Zangief,Balrog,etc?
and will you do them for the sf 3 comic?

Akutabi Gamma

09-09-2008, 09:17 PM

@Matt- Mine lips are sealed :x

dodgers2213

09-10-2008, 10:14 AM

How about checking out the SFII Turbo #2 cover (http://www.udonentertainment.com/blog/?p=377)...at least that much ;)

:amazed::looney::woot:

MattMoylan

09-10-2008, 10:25 PM

Will you still be doing powerfoils like before? I collect them all and wondering if we will see the Gen,Karin,dolls that got canceled as well as Zangief,Balrog,etc?
and will you do them for the sf 3 comic?

The printing costs on the powerfoils has gone way up over time, which is why we didn't release the Gen, Karin and Juli/Juni foils during the last series. We would love to do them again, but until we find a printer that can produce them at a decent rate, there won't be any new foils on the individual issues.

You can however find the unproduced foil art, along with all other covers for the first 2 SF comic series, in UDON's Art of Capcom.

Artayes

09-10-2008, 10:40 PM

The printing costs on the powerfoils has gone way up over time, which is why we didn't release the Gen, Karin and Juli/Juni foils during the last series. We would love to do them again, but until we find a printer that can produce them at a decent rate, there won't be any new foils on the individual issues.

You can however find the unproduced foil art, along with all other covers for the first 2 SF comic series, in UDON's Art of Capcom.

Sorry to hear that, but hopefully you guys can work it out. I have those comics already with the pictures of the foil covers in them ,but its not the same.

T-hawk

09-15-2008, 04:59 AM

Few more questions for you Matt :)

1- Will Bison have his interest in ryu back? i remember in street fighter #1 prologue section (the one drawn by joe madureira) Bison stated that ryu interested him and that they shall meet again, but since then there was no metion of ryu from bison.

2- is rose dead? are we at least gonna know her fate in street fighter 2 turbo ?

3- what will happen if Capcom brings Gouken back for Street Fighter 4 (which appears to be the case), how can you guys retcon such an event especially that gouken was shown dead in the comics and ryu stated that he buried him :)

4- Why was balrog in the comics given a different hair cut style than in the game.

5- Are the fighting arenas in the tournament gonna be reminiscent of the sf2 stages.

6- will the tournament have more than 16 fighters in it and can you explain if possible what are the rules of the tournament (how can a fighter advance in the tournament or get eliminated) .

7- Besides the individual stories on the new SF4 characters that will be published at the end of the sf2 comics, is there any chance that some of those new charcaters will have cameos WITHIN the sf2 turbo storyline?

Those were quite a few questions lol thank you for everything Matt.

Kori-Maru

09-15-2008, 06:20 PM

I have a few questions about Darkstalkers

1. Will there be more issues of the Darkstalkers comics/vol. 2 book after the Graphic File?
2. Would you guys be able to translate the manga versions of the Darkstalkers series same as SF Alpha, II, Sakura and Ryu Final books? (There's a ton of them.)
3. Would we be able to see a video version of the Darkstalkers comic book same as Street Fighter Round One?

Thanks.

~Kori-Maru

MattMoylan

09-16-2008, 05:25 PM

1- Will Bison have his interest in ryu back? i remember in street fighter #1 prologue section (the one drawn by joe madureira) Bison stated that ryu interested him and that they shall meet again, but since then there was no metion of ryu from bison.
Bison hasn’t forgotten about Ryu. We’ve kept these two pretty separate since the brief glimpse we saw of the last SF tournament. But now that pretty much everyone’s stories are coming together in the tourney, expect Ryu and Bison to cross paths.
2- is rose dead? are we at least gonna know her fate in street fighter 2 turbo ?
All I can say is, Rose’s story is not over yet.
3- what will happen if Capcom brings Gouken back for Street Fighter 4 (which appears to be the case), how can you guys retcon such an event especially that gouken was shown dead in the comics and ryu stated that he buried him :)
Well, if you think about it we have never followed the game stories exactly. UDON has taken elements from the various games to create our own continuity, while still staying true to the spirit of the characters. That said, we can’t reveal any SFIV story points yet, but we will be working to stay true to the spirit of SFIV even if some events in the game differ from our universe.
4- Why was balrog in the comics given a different hair cut style than in the game.
Think so? Seems about the same to me, short hair with the zigzag points at the front.
5- Are the fighting arenas in the tournament gonna be reminiscent of the sf2 stages.
You’ll definitely see some familiar locations ;)
6- will the tournament have more than 16 fighters in it and can you explain if possible what are the rules of the tournament (how can a fighter advance in the tournament or get eliminated) .
Between the tournament itself and the qualifying rounds there are definitely more than 16 fighters. Some more details about how the tournament rounds functions will be revealed in Turbo #2 ;)
7- Besides the individual stories on the new SF4 characters that will be published at the end of the sf2 comics, is there any chance that some of those new charcaters will have cameos WITHIN the sf2 turbo storyline?
No definite plans for that yet but it is possible. The SFIV and Turbo stories are definitely part of the same UDON SF universe.
1. Will there be more issues of the Darkstalkers comics/vol. 2 book after the Graphic File?
We`re not ready to announce anything just yet, but there WILL be more original Darkstalkers projects from UDON. At least one next year.
2. Would you guys be able to translate the manga versions of the Darkstalkers series same as SF Alpha, II, Sakura and Ryu Final books? (There's a ton of them.)
Don`t think we`re not working on it. Though these things take time (for the SF manga it took us two years to get the rights!)
3. Would we be able to see a video version of the Darkstalkers comic book same as Street Fighter Round One?
That`s up to the Animated comic producers and I would wager depends n how well the SF DVD sells.

Gilll

09-21-2008, 12:13 AM

Hey Matt thanks for answering all these people's Qs:

1.) Will we ever get to see Gotetsu, and the fight between him and Akuma?

2.) Have your Street Fighter Door posters been discontinued? I ordered the Akuma one an online sotre a while ago an it still says they haven't received any more from you guys yet

3.) Any chance you'll reprint that super large poster featuring all characters from II, III and Alpha?

Zephyranthes

09-21-2008, 12:46 AM

T-hawk

09-21-2008, 04:00 AM

Couple more questions for you matt (i know im relentless :P)

1- Is street fighter 3 in the same universe as street fighter 2 in the comic book continuity since i have been hearing that capcom might consider sf3 a seperate parallel universe/timeline.

2- Will sf3 be the story of Alex or is it a continuation of the main sf2 storyline/cast (Ryu, ken, chun-li)

3- would udon consider doing a king of fighters comic book series starting from kof94 (kof needs a great comic series so bad) if not what can we do to make you guys consider it?

4- how were sales for street fighter remix #0 ?

5- this is not a question but i just wanna back up the guy who asked abt mega man, we do need a megaman comic book :P (not as much as kof comic series)

Diek Stiekem

09-21-2008, 06:29 AM

No specific plans for Eagle. As for Maki and other characters first appearing in Final Fight... any licensing difficulties no longer exist. They’re fair game ;)

Good to know, I would love to see some Rolento action in the comics!

On a side note (but still Udon related) I loved the Transformer art you guys did
(especially this one (http://udoncrew.deviantart.com/art/CCE-Megatron-72775563) since I'm a Decepticon fanatic)!

Keep going with all the good stuff!
Props to ya'll at Udon giving us our Capcom fixes:tup:

Bowling Pin

09-21-2008, 06:29 AM

Thanks for taking the time to answer the questions asked so far. I've got a few of my own.

1) Is it possible we'll see a follow up to the Street Fighter Tribute artbook? Did UDON pursue most of the artists for the project or vice verca?

2) Just curious: what are the origins of UDON as a company? I think it branched off of Studio XD, but beyond that I'm not sure.

3) UDON has been dabbling in licensing works from Korea and Japan including Evyione and ROBOT. Would the company later consider expanding and showcasing more international talents (from, say, Southeast Asia or Europe)?

Edit: Seconding a Street Fighter Legends: Dan.

udoneko

09-21-2008, 06:03 PM

Is there any chance in the future that Udon would ever hire a "name" writer to work on a Street Fighter comic? By "name" I just mean an established or well-known comic book writer. I'm not expecting Alan Moore to come out of his cave and type the word "Shoryuken" into a script for money or anything. But it seems like plenty of "name" artists have already contributed art or short stories for your SF products. Would be nice to see different writers contribute. I wonder if Warren Ellis or someone would sell out if you paid him enough.

We did try contacting a few writers. However, most of the comic guys are totally not into video games. It takes us a while to get them up to speed on the SF Universe, and most of the time, there are proposals that we feel it does not fit into what we have planned, or so out of the SF world that would need a lot of edits and re-writes, ended up most well known artists will not be able to fit that into their already busy schedule.

No one knows SF more than Ken Siu-Chong, that is why Ken is always our main guy for the job. We are still trying to see if we can bring in a guest writer or 2 if we can work it out.

vasili10

09-21-2008, 06:20 PM

No one knows SF more than Ken Siu-Chong, that is why Ken is always our main guy for the job.

That's a pretty big claim. Or did you mean just among writers?:wonder:

dodgers2213

09-21-2008, 06:33 PM

That's a pretty big claim. Or did you mean just among writers?:wonder:

:rofl::rofl:

coco_j

09-21-2008, 08:30 PM

Why did you change the reason Ryu got his Red head band?

I felt the Alpha 2 battle had more significance, and what you guys did with that seemed kinda lazy, I mean, that fight between Ryu and Ken was one of the coolest moments in Alpha 2. The version in the comics is too casual IMO.

GregWeb8

09-21-2008, 09:48 PM

Few questions:
-Any plans to reprint the first SF collections at any point?
-How many volumes will the manga 1520 be? I can't find much info about it online, but it looks nice.
-Are there any more Street Fighter manga ya'll will be bringing over into English?
-Whatever happened to Rival Schools #3 and 4? Did it get cancelled or did Rey not ever finish the story?

-Finally, any advice you have for someone looking to get into the whole print business? I'm a soon to be graduating English major thinking about my options, and wondering if maybe working on Chinese-to-English translations would be a cool idea. Any tips?

CptMunta

09-21-2008, 11:57 PM

Hi Matt only a couple of questions.

What happened to Alvin Lee? What's he working on now and why did he stop drawing the SF2 comics?

While I'm at it Arnold Tsang? What's he up to now? I'd love to see these guys contribute to the SF comics somehow.

Fingers crossed that these guys will have a crack at the SFIV backup stories.

Still I have total faith in Chamba, Omar and the gang. Can't wait!

Also must be a bit of a challenge Working on storylines for SF2 SF4 and SF3 without giving away too much of one story and how it relates to another title.

Matman

09-22-2008, 12:49 AM

'Sup, Matt? It's cool of you to take the time to tell us some info. Much appreciated!

Just curious; what's the current release schedule for the Robot series?
I read that the delays are due by the company's behalf in Japan not sending you the stuff you need/have, so I'm wondering is this is causing you guys to push everything back, release-wise.
Wani seems to be slowing down on publishing themselves (currently at Vol. 10), so you don't have a huge backlog.

If you don't know, that's ok. My friends and I agree that you're handling the series better than DMP did. :wgrin:

Artayes

09-22-2008, 06:54 AM

1- Is street fighter 3 in the same universe as street fighter 2 in the comic book continuity since i have been hearing that capcom might consider sf3 a seperate parallel universe/timeline.

despite what stupid things Capcom is doing/does, Udon has already established sf 3 as part of the same universe which it OBVIOUSLY is anyways. Yun and Yang have already been in the comic and the sf 3 comic will continue the story after sf2/sf4. One big flowing beautiful story curiosity of Udon. ;)

MattMoylan

09-23-2008, 07:30 PM

1.) Will we ever get to see Gotetsu, and the fight between him and Akuma?
I hope so, we have a few ideas for him...
2.) Have your Street Fighter Door posters been discontinued? I ordered the Akuma one an online sotre a while ago an it still says they haven't received any more from you guys yet
3.) Any chance you'll reprint that super large poster featuring all characters from II, III and Alpha?
We’re currently out of stock on most all of our posters with no plans to reprint, however we are considering some new poster ideas.
Is there any chance in the future that Udon would ever hire a "name" writer to work on a Street Fighter comic?
Like Erik said above, the big names in American comic book writing are generally not SF fans. Not to say we will never let anyone else have a go at the property, but Ken’s doing a great job and we’re not looking to replace him any time soon ;)

1- Is street fighter 3 in the same universe as street fighter 2 in the comic book continuity since i have been hearing that capcom might consider sf3 a seperate parallel universe/timeline.
All of our SF books are one absolutely one universe.
2- Will sf3 be the story of Alex or is it a continuation of the main sf2 storyline/cast (Ryu, ken, chun-li)
Can’t give away much, but Alex will be one of the lead roles definitely.
3- would udon consider doing a king of fighters comic book series starting from kof94 (kof needs a great comic series so bad) if not what can we do to make you guys consider it?
KoF unfortunately doesn’t have anywhere near the audience that SF has in North America so it’d be tough to do a comic series here for it. Not that we wouldn’t love to, but as of now it probably would be a viable project.
4- how were sales for street fighter remix #0 ?
Good so far, and reorders are still coming in ;)
1) Is it possible we'll see a follow up to the Street Fighter Tribute artbook? Did UDON pursue most of the artists for the project or vice verca?
Oh, it’s very possible there will be more Tributes in the future...
As for the artiss of SF Tribute, we did let friends of the studio know about the project early so they could get their pieces in. These are guys like J Scott Campbell, Gabe, Mark Brooks, Sean Galloway, and all the UDON regulars. Of course once things got rolling, a lot of other pros also wanted to be involved. Probably 2/3 of the book is from either fans entering in our submission contest, or pro’s who heard about the project through the grapevine.
2) Just curious: what are the origins of UDON as a company? I think it branched off of Studio XD, but beyond that I'm not sure.
Well UDON’s origins are long and complicated...but the short version is we started as an art house, and eventually learned enough about publishing to try it ourselves. Today we still work plenty in both publishing and creative services.
As for UDON’s connection to Studio XD, the two groups were never one entity (that is each started on it’s own at different times). But, both companies started out as art houses in the Toronto area, and there are lot of friends between the two groups. Because of these we’ve worked plenty together on projects and on each other’s projects.
3) UDON has been dabbling in licensing works from Korea and Japan including Evyione and ROBOT. Would the company later consider expanding and showcasing more international talents (from, say, Southeast Asia or Europe)?
We would consider publishing any quality titles regardless of origins. So far we’ve stuck with East Asian books for our localized products just because those are the titles that interest us the most.
Why did you change the reason Ryu got his Red head band?
Just something fun we wanted to change up. Plus the Alpha 2 ending that features the headband scene was born out of the Alpha game plot, and as I’m sure you know our comic universe is much different from any SF game.
Any plans to reprint the first SF collections at any point?
We do try to keep the SF trades in print (Vol.1 is currently on its 5th, soon to be 6th printing!) Vol.1,2,3 are currently sold out on our end but most retailers still have copies in stores or online. We should have new printings ready in by the start of 2009.
How many volumes will the manga 1520 be? I can't find much info about it online, but it looks nice.
So far the original series is on Vol.4, and still going!
Are there any more Street Fighter manga ya'll will be bringing over into English?
Probably, we’re working on it ;)
Whatever happened to Rival Schools #3 and 4? Did it get cancelled or did Rey not ever finish the story?
Like we’ve said before Rival Schools #3 & 4 did not sell well enough to let us print them. Both are completed, and we do have a plan for getting the full story out to fans. More on that soon.
Finally, any advice you have for someone looking to get into the whole print business? I'm a soon to be graduating English major thinking about my options, and wondering if maybe working on Chinese-to-English translations would be a cool idea. Any tips?
Well that’s a huge question by itself, but I can tell you that the print industry is a very tough one to work in, largely due to the explosion of other media & entertainment (mainly video games and the internet). Most people in these industries also work as freelancers, so be prepared to do a lot of networking to search for your next job. My opinion, it is actually not tough to get work in comics... but it is VERY hard to make a living at it.

What happened to Alvin Lee? What's he working on now and why did he stop drawing the SF2 comics?
While I'm at it Arnold Tsang? What's he up to now? I'd love to see these guys contribute to the SF comics somehow.
Fingers crossed that these guys will have a crack at the SFIV backup stories.
Both Alvin and Arnold still work for UDON, currently doing variant covers or being involved in special projects like SF Tribute. But they’ve each branched out in their own directions to try their hand at something new. Alvin’ currently working on various Marvel projects, while Arnold is working largely in the videogame industry doing concept art.
You can keep track on each on them on their deviantat pages:
Alvin: http://alvinlee.deviantart.com/
Arnold: http://arnistotle.deviantart.com/
And on the SFIV backups, the first 2 stories (possibly all) will be drawn by the great Joe Ng. Joe’s been turning in some great pages so far, you guys will be blown away when you see them!
Also must be a bit of a challenge Working on storylines for SF2 SF4 and SF3 without giving away too much of one story and how it relates to another title.

It has presented some interesting story challenges that we have never had to deal with before, but we’re getting by!
Just curious; what's the current release schedule for the Robot series?
Going to have to give you a big question mark on that. We’re currently in the middle of contract renegotiations which have taken longer than expected. But once we have firm dates, the upcoming issues of Robot will be added to the schedule on udonentertainment.com (http://www.udonentertainment.com)

GregWeb8

09-25-2008, 06:37 AM

Awesome, thanks for this Matt. Also, does the artist of 1520 have a website?

Artayes

09-25-2008, 05:56 PM

All of our SF books are one absolutely one universe.

and this is one of many reasons Udon rocks so freaking hard. thanks for all the answers,Matt! I love Udon!

dodgers2213

09-25-2008, 07:15 PM

sad to hear Alvin Lee couldn't come back for some issues of Sf2 Turbo; he is extremely talented

Well, I look forward to the new artist

Gojira

09-26-2008, 02:21 PM

About the Final Fight alumni, will we see any other than the ones that have shown up in SF?

While I'm at it, any chance of some other random Capcom series getting cameos in any of the upcoming books? Like, say, Cyberbots or Phoenix Wright? :P

All I can say is, Rose’s story is not over yet.

I have a kind of followup question to this. In the last issue of SF2, did Rose disintegrate? I wasn't too clear on what was happening to her in that one panel and Rose is never mentioned again after that.

MattMoylan

09-27-2008, 10:20 AM

Awesome, thanks for this Matt. Also, does the artist of 1520 have a website?

Not that I know of, but the original publisher, Firedog, does have a website. You might look around there http://www.firedogstudio.com/

About the Final Fight alumni, will we see any other than the ones that have shown up in SF?

Quite possibly. More news on that is coming in the future ;)

While I'm at it, any chance of some other random Capcom series getting cameos in any of the upcoming books? Like, say, Cyberbots or Phoenix Wright? :P

Expect cameos for sure. These artists love to sneak stuff in.

I have a kind of followup question to this. In the last issue of SF2, did Rose disintegrate? I wasn't too clear on what was happening to her in that one panel and Rose is never mentioned again after that.

That was what we were trying to show, that her body disintegrated.

StormBlade

09-30-2008, 01:36 AM

MattMoylan

09-30-2008, 04:39 PM

I have one big question :P
When we gonna see Guy in action?Yes that's right the successor of Bushin style.Along whit Ryu he's one of my favorite characters and I don't know why do u still keep him in the trunk "Not so interesting characters"

With 60+ playable characters ( I think...haven't counted recently heh) in SF, it'll take us a while, but we'd love to touch on everybody eventually. Guy specifically WILL be showing up in Turbo, along with many other UDON first timers... can't say more than that!

Also if you haven't already, you may want to pick up the SF Alpha Manga, which features Guy in a major role.

EndLeSS8

09-30-2008, 05:29 PM

Akutabi Gamma

10-01-2008, 12:27 AM

Finally read SF Remix 0; wasn't impressed with the first 2 stories but I will read their series regardless. However, I thought the tournament was called World Warriors and not Street Fighter?
I LOVED THE SF3 story though! Alex was excellently portrayed and the "Yo, douchebag!" line was well done. However....I didn't like the re-use of restaurant being mugged idea from the first series.
Still it was enjoyable. Good work guys :tup:

vasili10

10-01-2008, 09:19 AM

Questions about Street Fighter Tribute in the stores:

Is it being delayed until almost the end of October? For the longest time its street date according to Amazon was 9-29-2008, but just recently I saw it over there pushed to 10-22-2008. Are comic book stores supposed to have it by now, or are they still waiting as well?

MattMoylan

10-02-2008, 11:01 AM

A lot of the comic readers here play the game a LOT also, so we really liked it when you incorporated the in-game moves in the comic (Chun's Dwn HK from Gen)

In the new series, are you going to have more of the Supers in the comic?

Definitely! You should see the super that -?????- pulls off in issue 2 ;)

I thought the tournament was called World Warriors and not Street Fighter?

It's also been called "The Grand Fight" at times. For our story we've settled on the Street Fighter Tournament.

Questions about Street Fighter Tribute in the stores:

Is it being delayed until almost the end of October? For the longest time its street date according to Amazon was 9-29-2008, but just recently I saw it over there pushed to 10-22-2008. Are comic book stores supposed to have it by now, or are they still waiting as well?

Street Fighter Tribute will be in stores next Wednesday (Oct 8), and it looks great!

vasili10

10-02-2008, 11:36 AM

Street Fighter Tribute will be in stores next Wednesday (Oct 8), and it looks great!

Cool, thank you sir. Looking forward to it.:woot:

strikesubmit

10-03-2008, 02:01 PM

We did try contacting a few writers. However, most of the comic guys are totally not into video games. It takes us a while to get them up to speed on the SF Universe, and most of the time, there are proposals that we feel it does not fit into what we have planned, or so out of the SF world that would need a lot of edits and re-writes, ended up most well known artists will not be able to fit that into their already busy schedule.

No one knows SF more than Ken Siu-Chong, that is why Ken is always our main guy for the job. We are still trying to see if we can bring in a guest writer or 2 if we can work it out.

nice.

you guys planning to have Joe Mad do more work for ya?

the guy's work is just on a whole other level.

Zephyranthes

10-03-2008, 06:24 PM

Do all of your Street Fighter comics in your line have to fit into a unified continuity? In the future, do you think it would be possible to do a series (or one-shot or graphic novel or whatever) that doesn't follow the continuity? One thing that comes to mind is the anthology series Dark Horse used to publish, Star Wars Tales. I wouldn't mind seeing something like that for Street Fighter.

Granted, Street Fighter doesn't have the mass appeal that Star Wars has, and I have no idea how anal Capcom is in regards to their property. But a Street Fighter version of Star Wars Tales might be very entertaining.

GregWeb8

10-04-2008, 11:43 AM

soulbankai

10-07-2008, 02:12 PM

Or, failing that, maybe something like a single character one-shot? I would totally buy an Ibuki single issue, or something along those lines.

Ibuki would be VERY nice to see in her own comic. Her background seems interesting enough, and i still want to know more about her than whats been handed to me from wikipedia lol.

So Matt, any chances of having anything like that? Where each character might get a comic/issue totally devoted to them? Well, with the proper amount of hype for it at least.

MattMoylan

10-08-2008, 04:13 PM

you guys planning to have Joe Mad do more work for ya?

We'd like to have Joe do more work but the guy's so busy! Hopefully we can have him back in the future.

Do all of your Street Fighter comics in your line have to fit into a unified continuity? In the future, do you think it would be possible to do a series (or one-shot or graphic novel or whatever) that doesn't follow the continuity? One thing that comes to mind is the anthology series Dark Horse used to publish, Star Wars Tales. I wouldn't mind seeing something like that for Street Fighter.

Technically Star Wars tales WAS in continuity. It was dcided later (I don't if by Dark Horse or Lucas) that the stories would be non continuity to the rest of their comics. Side note: UDON actually did the cover for Star Wars Tales #17!

Anyways, while we're not averse to doing an anthology type book with stories about different characters or SF eras, they're wouldn't really be a point to making those stories out of continuity from our main universe. We're prety free to take the characters where we want, and unless we have Ryu star punching babies or something, Capcom is generally okay with what we want to do.

Or, failing that, maybe something like a single character one-shot? I would totally buy an Ibuki single issue, or something along those lines.

Ibuki would be VERY nice to see in her own comic. Her background seems interesting enough, and i still want to know more about her than whats been handed to me from wikipedia lol.

So Matt, any chances of having anything like that? Where each character might get a comic/issue totally devoted to them? Well, with the proper amount of hype for it at least.

We do have some ideas on some different approaches to the Legends series or other projects, so you could see some more specific character centric stories in the future. Ibuki specifically is a fave of several UDONers, so I'm sure we'll get to her soon enough!

Gilll

10-10-2008, 07:57 PM

MattMoylan

10-11-2008, 02:05 PM

Ever considered doing "What If?" stories like Star Wars Infinities? For example I'm sure a lot of people would want to see Bison vs Gill, or what if Ryu did succumb to the Satsu no Hadou...

On that matter why is the Satsu no Hadou simply called the Dark Hadou in the comics?

Well, Bison VS Gill is still entirely possible....and who's to say Ryu WON'T succumb to the Dark Hadou? ;)

Satsu no Hadou is another one of the terms that has been translated many different ways between the games, anime and manga as things like Killing Intent, or Evil Intent, negative meanings. We settled on Dark Hadou as a better translation for Westerners, as it's a bit more ambiguous. Succumbing to Satsu no Hadou is a dark path, but is it inherently evil? We shall see....

vasili10

10-11-2008, 03:05 PM

Accel Core

10-12-2008, 09:11 AM

I think this is the right place to ask this, so I'll just do it here:

WHAT'S THE OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE FOR THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE BOOK?!

I mean, seriously, Amazon keeps pushing the shipping date back.

I would like to have my freakin' copy in front of me right now..

Sano

10-12-2008, 09:55 AM

xxSupreme

10-12-2008, 09:59 AM

....and who's to say Ryu WON'T succumb to the Dark Hadou? ;)

:bluu: nice try man

Accel Core

10-12-2008, 10:36 AM

Posted 10/9/08 -

http://forums.shoryuken.com/showpost.php?p=5626764&postcount=54

Yeah, I saw this post. Thanks, I was getting a little worried since the date kept changing on Amazon.

Thanks again!

JoeMasters

10-12-2008, 02:23 PM

I have a Secret Invasion #1 blank variant cover. You think any of the Udon artists would wanna draw me a Street Fighter Skrull characters?? :lovin:

GregWeb8

10-13-2008, 07:59 AM

Why isn't 1520 out yet? I thought it was gonna come out in September.

Sano

10-13-2008, 08:56 AM

Say have you guys given any thought to translating the Monster Hunter Orage manga? New Capcom manga in English is always a good thing. :smile:

TornadoFlame

10-13-2008, 09:45 AM

Mr. Moylan, if we got together a huge event at Denjin Arcade where the East Coast travelled over to California do you think you could make through? This event may be scheduled for February.

eggy

10-14-2008, 12:04 AM

Question about the new Street Fighter comic series coming out. Will there be RAW editions coming out too? I loved collecting these in the previous series of Street Fighter.

Gojira

10-15-2008, 06:54 PM

I have a Secret Invasion #1 blank variant cover. You think any of the Udon artists would wanna draw me a Street Fighter Skrull characters?? :lovin:

Goddamn I so want to see that.

MattMoylan

10-15-2008, 11:20 PM

I have a Secret Invasion #1 blank variant cover. You think any of the Udon artists would wanna draw me a Street Fighter Skrull characters?? :lovin:

Well, every year we have a different $20 item at our booth that comes with a free head sketch (like a sketchbook or an exclusive variant comic). You get to choose any character you like so I'm sure you could get a Skrully street fighter ;)

Why isn't 1520 out yet? I thought it was gonna come out in September.

We had to switch printers on 1520 so unfortunately this will delay the first volume until November.

Say have you guys given any thought to translating the Monster Hunter Orage manga? New Capcom manga in English is always a good thing. :smile:

We are looking at several new Capcom manga, though Monster Hunter would be a tough one. While it is HUGE in Japan, the game has a very small audience here in North america. Not sure if a manga would be viable, but you never know.

Mr. Moylan, if we got together a huge event at Denjin Arcade where the East Coast travelled over to California do you think you could make through? This event may be scheduled for February.

Whil we would love to atend every event, we already have a super busy con schedule. And we do need to find SOME time to actually work ;) But thanks for the invite!

Question about the new Street Fighter comic series coming out. Will there be RAW editions coming out too? I loved collecting these in the previous series of Street Fighter.

This time we are not doing raw editions, but we do have some projects planned for next year that will give you more looks behind the scenes of UDON artwork. For Turbo though, series artist Chamba like to post a lot of step by step pieces on his deviantart page, you can check it out here! (http://lastscionz.deviantart.com/gallery/#Tutorials)

LostPhrack

10-16-2008, 12:09 AM

We're prety free to take the characters where we want, and unless we have Ryu star punching babies or something
That would be the best training sequence ever!

Ooo.. speaking of Capcom manga.. any chance of getting an unflipped version of Nakahira's Cammy manga?

Artayes

10-16-2008, 12:11 AM

hey Matt, thanks for the answers so far.
-Is the sf 3 comic on time for a January 2009 release?

eggy

10-16-2008, 04:40 AM

Wow! Those step by steps look fantastic. Love the behind the scenes stuff. :tup:

SOBiby256

10-18-2008, 04:47 PM

I read SFT #1 - I saw some ads about the Next Issue, SFL Chun-Li, and the new SF IV series.

I'm happy you guys are taking SF IV into consideration, but where does this put SF3?

Is this new SF IV series gonna delay the SF3 series?

Artayes

10-18-2008, 10:42 PM

T-hawk

10-20-2008, 03:23 PM

Few Questions for you Matt:

1- will street fighter IV comics start before or after Turbo series is over ?

2- Will Street fighter 3 comics series be released after sf4 series ?

3- will we ever see joe, mike, or lee from street fighter 1 ?

4- who is drawing the street fighter 4 short stories that are to appear in the turbo series ?

5- i know its a bit early but have you guys decided who will be the artist for the upcoming 2009 street fighter 4 series ?

thanx matt

MattMoylan

10-20-2008, 09:53 PM

Ooo.. speaking of Capcom manga.. any chance of getting an unflipped version of Nakahira's Cammy manga?

We would like to do our own release of the Cammy manga, though we are pursuing some other never-before-released SF & Capcom mangas first. But if we do get to it we would give it a new translation and preserve the original reading direction.

I read SFT #1 - I saw some ads about the Next Issue, SFL Chun-Li, and the new SF IV series.

I'm happy you guys are taking SF IV into consideration, but where does this put SF3?

Is this new SF IV series gonna delay the SF3 series?

A press release will be coming very shortly giving all the details on when you will see both SFIV and SFIII stories. I'll answer and of those Q's once the PR is released, thanks for your patience! Feel free to speculate though ;)

3- will we ever see joe, mike, or lee from street fighter 1 ?

4- who is drawing the street fighter 4 short stories that are to appear in the turbo series ?

3 - We'd like to get to every SF character eventually...though I'm afraid we've already killed off Lee! maybe he can show up in flashback?

4 - Joe Ng is drawing the four SFIV backup stories. #2 will be Abel, #3 El Fuerte, #4 Rufus, and #5 C.Viper

Super Sonic

10-21-2008, 03:43 AM

We would like to do our own release of the Cammy manga, though we are pursuing some other never-before-released SF & Capcom mangas first. But if we do get to it we would give it a new translation and preserve the original reading direction.

A press release will be coming very shortly giving all the details on when you will see both SFIV and SFIII stories. I'll answer and of those Q's once the PR is released, thanks for your patience! Feel free to speculate though ;)

3 - We'd like to get to every SF character eventually...though I'm afraid we've already killed off Lee! maybe he can show up in flashback?

4 - Joe Ng is drawing the four SFIV backup stories. #2 will be Abel, #3 El Fuerte, #4 Rufus, and #5 C.Viper

Lee is dead? Which issue please? I thought it was Geki who died rather than Lee??

T-hawk

10-21-2008, 05:12 AM

Lee is dead? Which issue please? I thought it was Geki who died rather than Lee??

as far as i know lee never appeared in the comics so far

coco_j

10-21-2008, 05:39 AM

Just gotta say I thought the Red head dude Ryu fought was a really cool design and would fit in the SF world.

Sano

10-21-2008, 06:51 AM

In the SF comics Lee is Yun and Yang's father, so yeah he's dead as their father has stated to have croaked.

Akutabi Gamma

10-21-2008, 06:55 AM

Will Q appear at the end of the SFII Turbo comic?

@Sano- I thought Lee was NOT their father?

Sano

10-21-2008, 07:49 AM

@Sano- I thought Lee was NOT their father?

In the comics he is their father. In the games he's a relative. The Yun/Yang/Lee relationship in the games is kind of confusing actually which is probably why Udon did what they did.

EDIT: Oh, SFD also brung up Lee being mentioned in SF issue 10. Same issue where Yun and Yang's father was stated to have died. An old post of his talking about when SF characters might appear in the comic.

http://forums.shoryuken.com/showpost.php?p=3494223&postcount=8

vasili10

10-21-2008, 08:21 AM

In the comics he is their father. In the games he's their uncle. The Yun/Yang/Lee relationship in the games is kind of confusing actually which is probably why Udon did what they did.

EDIT: Oh, SFD also brung up Lee being mentioned in SF issue 10. Same issue where Yun and Yang's father was stated to have died. An old post of his talking about when SF characters might appear in the comic.

http://forums.shoryuken.com/showpost.php?p=3494223&postcount=8

Fixed.

Younger brother of their dad to be exact.

Sano

10-21-2008, 08:47 AM

Fixed.

Younger brother of their dad to be exact.

See, that's why it's confusing. Lee is probably dead, speculated to have been killed by the Chinese mafia after losing SF1, Yun and Yang's father is definitely dead, Yun and Yang work in a restaurant in Hong Kong that their adoptive Grandfather owned, Gen also has a restaurant in Hong Kong... I'm betting there's a hole in the wall of Ken Siu-Chong's office from banging his head against it trying to make heads or tails out of that particular mess. :rofl:

vasili10

10-21-2008, 09:05 AM

See, that's why it's confusing. Lee is probably dead, speculated to have been killed by the Chinese mafia after losing SF1, Yun and Yang's father is definitely dead, Yun and Yang work in a restaurant in Hong Kong that their adoptive Grandfather owned, Gen also has a restaurant in Hong Kong... I'm betting there's a hole in the wall of Ken Siu-Chong's office from banging his head against it trying to make heads or tails out of that particular mess. :rofl:

Well, the "Gen has a restaurant that Yun and Yang work in" part is only in Udon's comics. Gen ever having a restaurant was straight out of Pocket Fighter. Not only that, their grandfather owned an herbalist shop, not a restaurant. The brothers don't work in one, but their girlfriends do.

Hey, Ken could always hire me to try. Fewer head-bangings at the very least.:rofl:

Sano

10-21-2008, 09:09 AM

LOL thanks vasili10. :smile:

Akutabi Gamma

10-21-2008, 09:28 AM

All I know is, Yun and Yang know Lee, but Capcom will never admit that Gouki is Ryu's biological father.

vasili10

10-21-2008, 08:45 PM

LOL thanks vasili10. :smile:

Anytime.:wgrin:

Artayes

10-22-2008, 01:10 PM

come on, guys. we got to show support towards a sf 3 comic as well. I know you guys want to see one too. I love the whole series, but the sf 3 side is a little shaky right now.

-hey Matt, thanks for the answers. so the sf 3 comic is still being made right? I'll buy out comic book stores if I can just please let us know it is still in the works.

ThunderKick

10-22-2008, 05:21 PM

I’m thrilled at the fact Udon is working on a Street Fighter III series. Here is hoping an epic brawl between Ryu and Hugo, Udon style.

eggy

10-23-2008, 03:47 PM

Will UDON be releasing anymore of the small sized trade paper backs for Street Fighter II? I love having those around so I can read them without touching the singular issues or the Ultimate TPB editions and to lend to friends.

MattMoylan

10-24-2008, 12:11 AM

Will Q appear at the end of the SFII Turbo comic?

@Sano- I thought Lee was NOT their father?

Q could be lurking around sooner than you think... keep your eyes peeled!

As for Lee, in our story yes he is Yun/Yang's father, though we have only mentioned and not shown him.

-hey Matt, thanks for the answers. so the sf 3 comic is still being made right? I'll buy out comic book stores if I can just please let us know it is still in the works.

There are definitely SF3 stories coming your way in 2009. Exact dates and details will be coming soon, patience ;)

Will UDON be releasing anymore of the small sized trade paper backs for Street Fighter II? I love having those around so I can read them without touching the singular issues or the Ultimate TPB editions and to lend to friends.

Definitely, we'll be collecting all our series in small sized TPB's, several of which will come out in 2009. The Turbo arc will probably be two 6-issue trades.

BUT we still hope you'll keep collecting the individual issues! The better the individual comics do, the more likely it is that we'll be able to bring you new series like SF Legends for other characters, Darkstalkers, or others.

Akutabi Gamma

10-24-2008, 04:56 AM

Thanks for clearing it up.
BTW any chance of releasing the Rockman Megamix series in English?

Artayes

10-24-2008, 06:41 AM

Q could be lurking around sooner than you think... keep your eyes peeled!

There are definitely SF3 stories coming your way in 2009. Exact dates and details will be coming soon, patience ;)

Thank you so much, Matt. I have plenty of patience for your incredible comics. I, along with other fans, just want to see the whole universe and sf 3 is such an intriguing and special part of street fighter! Glad to know it's coming and I will wait as long as it takes and we got the insanely well done and much appreciated turbo comics right now anyways until the sf 3 and other comics of yours (darkstalkers, more legends,etc) happens.
and can't wait to see Q soon!

-just one thing, when you say sf 3 "stories" coming soon - you do mean "comics", right? thanks again for the answers.

I know Udon is full of real fans of the series as well, that is one huge factor to why all of these characters and stories thus far have been so epic.

Sano

10-24-2008, 08:12 AM

No questions from me right now, just want to give an extra big thanks to Matt Moylan for being so professional and just really good at answering questions! Ah, I wish SRK still had the clapping smilie but this will have to suffice -

:woot::woot::woot::woot::woot:

COMMONSENSE

10-24-2008, 08:16 AM

I love Street Fighter 3 to the core but if you had to push it to the side for Street Fighter 4 that would only make since from a buisiness stand point. I know Street Fighter 3 going to be amazing when it comes so I can wait it out. 2009 going to be a great year.

eggy

10-25-2008, 10:41 PM

BUT we still hope you'll keep collecting the individual issues! The better the individual comics do, the more likely it is that we'll be able to bring you new series like SF Legends for other characters, Darkstalkers, or others.

Of course. how can any Street Fighter fan resist collecting all of UDON's Street Fighter goodness. :p

I got issue 1B of SFIIT, but recently I've been thinking I also want to get 1A. aaaahhh! both covers were just too good, but in the end my preference for Alvin's work won me over to B.

Might have to get me a softcover of Street Fighter Tribute too, so I can keep my hardcover version pristine. ^_^

Saturius

10-28-2008, 05:17 AM

So any news on when the Darkstalkers graphic file is coming out?

MattMoylan

10-28-2008, 05:57 PM

Thanks for clearing it up.
BTW any chance of releasing the Rockman Megamix series in English?

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe....

-just one thing, when you say sf 3 "stories" coming soon - you do mean "comics", right? thanks again for the answers.

Yes, comics ;)

So any news on when the Darkstalkers graphic file is coming out?

Won't be out as soon as we wanted unfortunately but, certainly before the end of November.

In other news though, Turbo #2 is at the printers right now ;)

Akutabi Gamma

10-31-2008, 08:12 AM

TYT on the Rockman manga, though I would like to know if there is any chance you may release the mangas that Etsuya Amajishi did.
To be exact the mangas he did for some SNK games?
The ones I know of are:
He did mangas for all 3 Art of Fighting games, and he 2 mangas that focused on Geese Howard and how he became the badass mo-fo crime lord we all know and love.

T-hawk

11-04-2008, 01:12 PM

Hey Matt,

i have couple questions for you:

1- now than Gen has been confirmed to be in Street Fighter IV and that he clearely was killed in the udon comic series, how would you guys explain his return? do you have to retcon his fate?

2- when is street fighter 2 turbo #2 coming out

3- Was gouken buried by ryu in the comics?

RedStarWolf

11-04-2008, 02:12 PM

capcom doesnt go by comics, they go by offical game canon, and we really dont know if gen died or not in the offical canon

MattMoylan

11-04-2008, 10:25 PM

TYT on the Rockman manga, though I would like to know if there is any chance you may release the mangas that Etsuya Amajishi did.
To be exact the mangas he did for some SNK games?

Not looking at any SNK games right now. They have some interesting properties for sure, but the SNK characters are just not that popular in North America compared to others like Street Fighter. It's might be tough to sell enough copies to make the book profitable.

1- now than Gen has been confirmed to be in Street Fighter IV and that he clearely was killed in the udon comic series, how would you guys explain his return? do you have to retcon his fate?

Gen's definitely dead for us. As a seperate continuity from the games, we are not bound to following the game story exactly - UDON's comics have always been a combination of the best elements from each game.

But if you GOTTA have yourself some Gen, your are in luck. Look for him to show up at some point in Chun-Li Legends, which is set several years before Gen died.

2- when is street fighter 2 turbo #2 coming out

Look for it on shelves probably the last Wednesday of Novemeber. Could be one week earlier, but last week of November at the latest.

3- Was gouken buried by ryu in the comics?

Yeppers. Well, at least he buried someone... let's hope it was Gouken.

capcom doesnt go by comics, they go by offical game canon, and we really dont know if gen died or not in the offical canon

True. Though the two often add to each other, like when Karin and Dark Ryu made the jump from the manga to the game.

AS for the official canon, it's tough to keep track of since Capcom has retconned things so many times and also all the game info does not totally mesh together all the time. That's part of the reason why UDON pick the best elements rather thn try to rigidly follow game continuity.

Akutabi Gamma

11-05-2008, 12:55 AM

RedStarWolf

11-05-2008, 06:17 AM

capcom DOESNT go by the way of unofficial comics, like UDON. Its a strict line, the SF canon.

MattMoylan

11-05-2008, 01:41 PM

@Matt- First off I don't mean any offense with this post I'm making, so plz don't take it the wrong way;
I don't think that readers not knowing what AoF is, is a reason to go against releasing the book; I haven't heard of any of the Korean comics UDON is publishing, yet I wouldn't mind reading them.
If you back up the publication of the book with good 'advertising' (for lack of a better word), it could sell well enough.
Granted though, perhaps its main weak point is the appeal to the art, most of those who are into manga are usually attracted to 'newer' art styles rather than classic ones....then again that never stopped the appeal to the SF mangas in the US.

Being less popular is not the only factor. It is also very expensive to license video game manga, this is why you don't see too much of it over here. You have to pay royalties to the Japanese Artist, Japanese Publisher, Japanese Game Company, and depending on the company structure, probably also the American branch of the company.

So it is not just the greater risk of a less popular title, but the expensive of game manga compare to other manga. Not to say we would never do it but those are the challenges.

Regarding Gen's death BTW; what if his appearance in SF4 is integral to the plot? Will you retcon his death in the original SFII book or will you just have him be like a zombie or ghost?

He'll stay dead in our continuity, it as a pretty pivotal moment for the character so we wouldn't want to cheapen that. As I said before we won't be following the game story exactly - a straight up adaptation would be kind of boring. Instead we are keeping all the origins and backstory of the new crew, but lets just say they will be going on a different adventure.

One other question, that has been nagging me since day 1; who will you make the winner of the tourney in SFII? Ryu or ChunLi?

Hah, you'll have to read an find out... maybe neither!

capcom DOESNT go by the way of unofficial comics, like UDON. Its a strict line, the SF canon.

UDON's books are very much official comics, if not directly part of the game continuity.

And the SF game story has definitely never been precise, just look at all the debates fans have over it ;) There is no official document in a drawer a Capcom that lays out the whole continuity. Last Capcom Japan told us, they generally consider each game it's own continuity. This sort of reconciles all the conflicting stuff.

Akutabi Gamma

11-05-2008, 01:52 PM

Being less popular is not the only factor. It is also very expensive to license video game manga, this is why you don't see too much of it over here. You have to pay royalties to the Japanese Artist, Japanese Publisher, Japanese Game Company, and depending on the company structure, probably also the American branch of the company.

So it is not just the greater risk of a less popular title, but the expensive of game manga compare to other manga. Not to say we would never do it but those are the challenges.
Ah I can accept that, its such a bummer though, as some of the books based off games are quite good I hear :/

He'll stay dead in our continuity, it as a pretty pivotal moment for the character so we wouldn't want to cheapen that. As I said before we won't be following the game story exactly - a straight up adaptation would be kind of boring. Instead we are keeping all the origins and backstory of the new crew, but lets just say they will be going on a different adventure.
Fair enough, his death was indeed emotional, good work on that.

Hah, you'll have to read an find out... maybe neither!
:lovin::lovin::lovin:

RedStarWolf

11-05-2008, 02:09 PM

UDON's books are very much official comics, if not directly part of the game continuity.

And the SF game story has definitely never been precise, just look at all the debates fans have over it ;) There is no official document in a drawer a Capcom that lays out the whole continuity. Last Capcom Japan told us, they generally consider each game it's own continuity. This sort of reconciles all the conflicting stuff.

i meant they werent part of the offical SF canon, just to clear out =D

T-hawk

11-07-2008, 02:12 AM

Hey Matt,

i just saw the press release for the upcoming sfIV comic series.
i have couple question abt that if you can answer them:

1- it looks like the story is occuring at the same time as the sf2 turbo, is this the case?

2- since this sf4 comic miniseries appears to be like a prequel to the sf4 main storyline will there be another street fighter IV comic series after sf2 turbo finishes ?

3- is charlie dead?? why is he in the cover of sfIV # 1 ????

4- can we expect street fighter 3 comics right after the sf2 turbo finishes or after the street fighter IV comics that might come after street fighter 2 turbo ?

5- not a question but Joe ng's art style is AWESOME, i really wished if he was the one behind sf2 turbo comics, i really have a hard time swallowing Chamba's art style for the comic, i believe his style would have worked in a bonus story or some spinoff issues but as the main artist for the main sf storyline it just seems out of place. Arnold tsang, alvin lee and now joe ng's art syle seems in the same realm of reality, they are all anime like dramwing, while chamba's art is original i just doesnt fit well with the others, especially that sf2 turbo is the over hyped conclusion of the main sf2 story. i am sorry if appear like a hater, it just that i was a bit dissapointer in the quality of art for the sf2 turbo. The story is of course spectacular as usual. I hope Chamba's art style gets improved and that he start drawing more bacjground elements, as really every panel's background is so empty or sometimes consists of one color only.
i believe what makes even harder to swallow, is the upcoming sf2thd remix whis will be released this month and drawn by udon a la alvin lee/ tsang's art style so when we play the game and then look at the comic story of street fighter 2 it just makes it look inferior to the game in terms of art.

sorry Matt if i sound harsh on Chamba, he is a great artist i just dont think his style fits with street fighter comic world created by Udon.

ps: cant wait for sf4 miniseries, and it is in february, so just in time when the game gets finally released.

wakasashe

11-07-2008, 03:46 AM

Hey Matt!
You've been feeding us some great answers with just enough to keep us more drawn in to where the comic's taking us!

My questions: Has Capcom decided on full cannon for SF4?

How much do you love your job? :)

Artayes

11-07-2008, 12:19 PM

So now you guys are not going to do a SF 3 comic and instead do a sf 4 comic? so the sf 3 characters only get 4 pages for just 3 turbo comics (8-10)?

This is really sad news and extremely disappointing. Capcom wants to further themselves from sf 3 and you guys are now following behind. I was a huge supporter of you guys but doing this to sf 3 and its characters is close to the final straw for me to give up your comic and possibly sf all together. If Capcom wants to drop sf 3 characters and put them off as a memory, then that is too big of a deal for to ever just get over since i absolutely love the sf 3 characters (and other fans do as well).

I wish you luck with your sf series, but this is too disheartening for me as Oro, Gill, Ibuki, Alex, Urien, Twelve, Makoto, Q, Remy, Dudley, Necro, Effie, Hugo, Poison, Sean, Elena, Yun and Yang do NOT deserve this.

Sano

11-07-2008, 12:41 PM

Udon's still doing SF3 comics, it's just coming a little later in 2009 now.

Artayes

11-07-2008, 12:46 PM

Udon's still doing SF3 comics, it's just coming a little later in 2009 now.

where do they say that at ,Sano? sorry to sound so mean, but this is just so disheartening right now. I want to be able to enjoy all of sf like i always have, sf 4 characters are great as they all are, but I just can't do that with sf 3 characters being totally screwed over and being almost dropped from the series entirely (at least that is the route is has been headed).

so as huge of a fan I am, this is just tearing me apart. But I hope you are right, Sano.

and Matt, will all of the sf 3 characters be in the comics (the 16 playables and Poison and Effie)?
and are 8 through 10 the only backups that the sf 3 characters will be appearing in? if so, does this mean their comic will be coming shortly after?

Sano

11-07-2008, 01:25 PM

Matt can give you a clearer answer when he comes around but right here it says delay. Not a cancellation, a delay. Which means it is still coming. If he said cancellation then that would mean the end of an SF3 comic.

http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=167550

Also in this thread, where 2009 is mentioned -

http://forums.shoryuken.com/showpost.php?p=5674231&postcount=121

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this doesn't just mean SFIIT back up stories.

Artayes

11-07-2008, 01:34 PM

Matt can give you a clearer answer when he comes around but right here it says delay. Not a cancellation, a delay. Which means it is still coming. If he said cancellation then that would mean the end of an SF3 comic.

http://forums.shoryuken.com/showthread.php?t=167550

Also in this thread -

http://forums.shoryuken.com/showpost.php?p=5674231&postcount=121

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this doesn't just mean SFIIT back up stories.

ok, thanks again, Sano. hopefully Matt will be around soon to clear this up like you said. It just seems the sf 3 characters are getting worked over really hard.

MattMoylan

11-07-2008, 02:34 PM

Hey Matt,

i just saw the press release for the upcoming sfIV comic series.
i have couple question abt that if you can answer them:

1- it looks like the story is occuring at the same time as the sf2 turbo, is this the case?

Yeppers, both series happen simultaneously. You'll even see some characters appear in both series, so we've made sure to time their appearances so that it all makes sense continuity-wise.

2- since this sf4 comic miniseries appears to be like a prequel to the sf4 main storyline will there be another street fighter IV comic series after sf2 turbo finishes ?

We haven't decided on more SFIV content yet, let's see how this series does first. It's possible we could do another SFIV series, or we might just incorporate our favorite SFIV newbies into our other SF series.

3- is charlie dead?? why is he in the cover of sfIV # 1 ????

You'll just have to read and find out! ;) You'll get your first hints in the Abel backup in Turbo #2, on sale in a couple weeks!

4- can we expect street fighter 3 comics right after the sf2 turbo finishes or after the street fighter IV comics that might come after street fighter 2 turbo ?

Most likely after both this SFIV series and the Turbo tournmanet arc finish next year.

5- not a question but Joe ng's art style is AWESOME, i really wished if he was the one behind sf2 turbo comics, i really have a hard time swallowing Chamba's art style for the comic, i believe his style would have worked in a bonus story or some spinoff issues but as the main artist for the main sf storyline it just seems out of place. Arnold tsang, alvin lee and now joe ng's art syle seems in the same realm of reality, they are all anime like dramwing, while chamba's art is original i just doesnt fit well with the others, especially that sf2 turbo is the over hyped conclusion of the main sf2 story. i am sorry if appear like a hater, it just that i was a bit dissapointer in the quality of art for the sf2 turbo. The story is of course spectacular as usual. I hope Chamba's art style gets improved and that he start drawing more bacjground elements, as really every panel's background is so empty or sometimes consists of one color only.
i believe what makes even harder to swallow, is the upcoming sf2thd remix whis will be released this month and drawn by udon a la alvin lee/ tsang's art style so when we play the game and then look at the comic story of street fighter 2 it just makes it look inferior to the game in terms of art.

Sorry that you are not feeling Chamba's work yet. Most folks seem to love him and he's only getting better with each issue. One of our big concerns with the main book was that every issue be on time, and Chamba's been able to deliver every issue ahead of schedule so far, so you can rest assured there will be no delays on our main book.

Glad you like Joe art so much though. Before the SFIV series, you will also get to see his work in the SFIV backups found in Turbo #2,3,4,5.

Hey Matt!
You've been feeding us some great answers with just enough to keep us more drawn in to where the comic's taking us!

My questions: Has Capcom decided on full cannon for SF4?

If you mean, does our comic stoy follow the game EXACLTY, we have worked very closly with Capcom and SFIV producer Ono-san to work in all the same origins and personalities for the new cast. That said, we will be sending them on a different adventure than the game story (a stragiht adaptation would be a little boring yes?).

If you are simply asking does Capcom have a planned out, full backstory for the game, well...all these SFIV story documents I have seem to indicate that yes they have heh.

How much do you love your job? :)