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Title: Street Fighter    
ISBN #   
Author: Ken Sui-Chong with Alvin Lee, Arnold Tsang and Omar Dogan (artists)   
Publisher: Udon Publishing  
Comic site: Street Fighter  
Release Date: September 2003  
Price: From $2.95 upwards depending on covers (The ones I show are what I have)
Iwa says - 10 years after the first and failed attempt to do an english language original SF comic. The folks at Udon took up the challenge and came out with this series. It introduces the characters and sets up theri backgrounds.  
- Like why Ryu took up the journey to improve himself himself.  
- Chun Li constantly on trail of Shadaloo. (teaming up with Gen and Fei Long) 
- The Ryu and Ken frendship.  
- Ken and Eliza's relationship 
- Guile and Charlie 
- Sakura chasing down Ryu 
- Cammy and her past.  
It feels mostly Zero-ish with the appearance of Charlie, Sakura and the Dolls (yeah I like Satsuki.) 

Artwork smacks a whole lot like these guys actually watch the SF animated movie and used the SF movie perfect album as a character design guide. Therefore artwork is like a cross between that anime movie and Udon's own style.  

And the fact that as if someone seems to know that I'm fond of Ryu's side profile and threw in a gratuitous amount of Ryu's side profile *laughs* Thank you! Thank you! thank you! (opps acting like a silly fan girl again).  
And CL looks good regardless while my fave villian is well just so himself (Vega/Bison) *laughs*. I ended up dropping Wildcats (sorry SF just has the highest piority. Blame CL and Ryu ) just so I could divert my funds to getting this series  

Extra things - Powerfoil covers, Alternate covers, lovely fanarts, Vega/Bison and CL busts. Cheap shots reminding me of the SF 4 Koma mangas. And of course pics of my collection making it in issue 7. (Thank You for making my day. )  And these guys are the first SF comic I ever sent stuff to.  
Keeping my fingers crossed that these guys would make a long lived series to rival the folks on the HK side (Not too much to ask for right?).

 
 
Title: Street Fighter 2 
ISBN #   
Author: Ken Sui-Chong with Alvin Lee, M$th(artists)   
Publisher: Udon Publishing  
Comic site: Street Fighter  
Release Date: October 2005  
Price: From $2.95 upwards depending on covers 
Iwa says - The continuing sequal to Street Fighter. (thank you for another lovely Ryu side profile). artwise. Ryu's starting to look a whole lot like his SF animated movie counterpart. 

The one thing I am curious about is how would Udon have Ryu and Chun Li interact. Whether to:  
- beat the crap out of each other (tourney style or a la SF Zero manga SnH Ryu vs CL, SF3rdS). Or for that matter just plain old spar.  
- work together to beat the crap out of some big bad guy or a bunch of guys with too much time on their hands (SF-Ryu, SF3 techncially).  
- or just plain old gather info off each other (SVC chaos).   
I dunno. Something about watching Ryu and CL in motion together is just that beautiful, fluid (that or I had being over indugling in too many HK comics and Jap mangas)  

Whatever the results I'm hoping that this series would  WOW! me like my other comics and mangas had done. So far it hadn't let me down. 
Extra things - More busts (prehaps a Ryu to make me buy a Chun Li?), Posters, stuff. More powerfoils. a really lovely Ryu and ChunLi back-to-back cover if I can ever find it (makes me wonder if the Udon folks ever rumages through little websites like this, since said artwork resemble point 2. Thank you!) 

 
Translated Mangas
Iwa says - This one is more of a special section since Udon is actively translating some of the Japanese mangas. Links would be provided back to the manga section. Looking forward to more such mangas since I have limited understanding of Japanese
 
 
 
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