UDON Asks Street Fighter fans to help save the comic
 

Dear friends -

I wanna say thank you on giving us all the support and input on the Street Fighter project! This is a rare time that I would actually need your help!

The initial order numbers of SF #1 just came in, and the amount the comic retailers has put in is UNREALISTICALLY LOWER than we expect.... I have to say, if these are the final sale numbers, we might not be able to keep this alive for much too long....

The state of comic book retail nowadays is not healthy. I am pretty sure that with these numbers, this book will get sold out very soon. And a lot of people who wants the book will miss out on it. Yes, it will become an instant collectible like the SF#0 and become hot on EBAY, but that is not going to help in the long run. I want to make sure everyone who wanted a copy can get it a the cover price. The problem here seems that the Comic Book Shop Owners do not have confidence in this project.

We have to understand that the past track record of SF books has not been good. So the store owners are not willing to order more books on a SF title. So, we have to tell them this time, it is different. This time, we are doing a REAL book that fans (including ourselves at UDON!) would be proud of holding a copy in our hand. Here is where you guys comes in.

PLEASE call all you local stores and tell them you want to see the SF book. Tell your friends to do it! Tell every SF fan out there to go to their local store to reserve a copy. Retailers normally only get enough for their pull list nowadays and they won't order too many extras. So we gotta tell them what we need to give them confidence in this title!

If you need the number for your local shop, call toll free 1-888-COMIC-BOOK (1-888-266-4226) to find one!

Thanks!
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If you want to help keep this fu*king amazing comic series, as well as one of the last true hopes of Street Fighter surviving alive, then PLEASE do what they asked and call what few Comic book shops and collectable stores, Hell, even video game retailers you can and help save it.

Well, *I* buy the comic, so there isn't much more I can do. I sing it's praises as much as possible.

I'm surprised by the number of Street Fighter fans who don't read it. The book is honestly the best adaptation of the Street Fighter story I've ever seen, any fan would most certainly enjoy it.

Yeah, I'm a fan of Street Fighter. I love the games and I love the animated movie and all that jazz, but for some reason, I haven't picked up a single book of this series yet. I really should. Elite5Raph's been practicly roughing me up to go and start collecting! :lol: :P

Crap! Is this why Darkstalkers #7 isnt out yet?

You'd definately be doing yourself a favor if you did. The most gorgeous art Street Fighter has ever seen. So far, all we've seen is their adaptation of Street Fighter I and Street Fighter Alpha. They're Street Fighter II adaptation is going to rock (if they ever release it).

I don't know if the second arc is available in TPB, but I know the first one is. It's "manga-sized" but that doesn't hurt it too much. Definately do yourself a favorandget it.

Hell, get Darkstalkers too, while you're at it.

Yeah, well I'm gonna join him :evilgrin:

This comic is the best Street Fighter adaption ever, period. I buy the comic and graphic novels and its just unequaled. The art kills even the official stuff. The story finally makes sense, and the layout is just too damn good. You MUST read it now or I'll send Vega to your house.

:teek:

That's all I need now... a recreation of that scene with Vega and Chun Li in the anime movie. :tanime:

And to think, I'm about to take a shower now...

Thanks for scaring the Hell out of me, TMB! :x :P ;) :lol:

:lol: HAHAHAHA! Oh man, that would motivate me to do anything.

This news, however, is quite shocking. I would've never thought Street Fighter was in such rough shape, it's gotta be one of the prettiest books on the market. The people at my comic shop seem to love it. But either way, I'll still be calling them tomorrow to reserve my copy.

Yeeeess, just imagine.

You get out of the shower, wander over to your bed, completely unaware of what is comming. You turn on the radio, trying to get sleepy, then you lay down, and look at the celing, and HOLY SH*T!!!!

:lol: :lol:

Yeah, the threat of Vega comming to my house would motivate me to achieve world peace. :lol:

If anybody wants an example of what a really really bad Street Fighter comic can be like, you should check out the Capcom vs SNK: SVC Chaos comic that they imported from China (or is it Korea?).

Everyone in it talks like Batzarro. By that I mean that they repeat everything the narration box says. Not only that but everyone laughs "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA". And I mean they do it constantly.

The Udon comics are a GODSEND because otherwise we could be getting nothing but sh*t like that.

I think I might want to see this.

That is actually quite a low blow. I mean, those UDON-people go like "Buy this book or it's your fault if it gets cancelled". Everyone can do that. Imagine DC going "Buy series XY or it's your fault if it gets cancelled."

Very bad publicity.

I'm a big Street Fighter fan, The UDON STreet FIghter series is very awsome. I have all the issues except the first and another one. It sucks to know that the sales are bad. I thought the were doing quite well. because it always almost seems to be sold out. :ohwell:

The difference is, Udon isn't the powerhouse that DC or Marvel are. They're a relatively small studio who are just getting into self publishing (before, Street Fighter was published by Image, and then Devil's Due). No shame in asking for a little support so they can stay alive.
Honestly, Udon is a great company. If you check out the forums at Shoryuken.com, you see their chief of publishing Erik Ko posts there quite often, answering AND asking questions. They're one of the few companies who actually ask their fans what THEY wanna see, take the input and actually USE it. They seriously do their very best to make us happy.

Uhm, yeah, and? Hurricane isn't that big either, but when Crossgen went bankrupt, which was their biggest partner back then (Code6-imprint), they didn't say "help us, we're going down". They dropped a note saying that Crossgen is gone and that they're on hiatus for quite some time. And voilà, they're back. And Jan Utstein-O'Neill of Hurricane is also present in the forums and so is Steve Kups from DC/Marvel Germany.

And no, it's not a shame to ask for help, but I find it quite lousy that they practically tell their readers that it would be their fault if the title gets cancelled.

Does Capcom give UDON any support!? and what is UDON asking from the fans? what is this book? I would gladly help but i'm kinda low on money this month.

Yeah, but there's something different about Udon. The people at Udon who wrote this wonderful series are actually Street Fighter fans themselves, not just a comic book publisher who was contracted to draw something, slap it on news print and call it a day. They actually care about what they do and love it. They strive to please us fans and make the most accurate Street Fighter translaton available, because they are fans. They actually talk to their fans on fan forums, completely unrelated to their own. Fu*king Capcom would never do something like that. They're too high and mighty.

Too many wonderful comics die because people didn't know there was trouble, or because the publisher didn't give a damn anyway. I belive Udon asking for their fans help is a wonderful thing. I'm going to see if I can get this carried as a news story to help them out. It couldn't hurt. There's nothing wrong with asking for support from your fanbase.

Heh, you're right. The SVC comic is from Hong Kong. I've heard some of the madness that goes on in that book (Ryu getting beaten by everyone, even Dan) But I don't think anything can top the horribleness was Malibu comics' vision of Street Fighter, where in the first issue, Chun-Li kicks Ryu's ass, then they make out. Ryu claimed to be the street fighter champion AS he was defeating Sagat. And Ken was basically killed off in the second issue.