I’m the webguy for Midtown Comics in NYC and I noticed that Street Fighter Eternal Challenge TP is on our invoice for Wednesday’s books. Oh yeah! I’ll try to scan a couple pages on Monday (assuming I don’t have to damage the book too badly to fit it on the scanner hehe)
edit: the SF #12 power foil cover is also out Wednesday
Awesome!! Looking forward to it. Thanks! :party: 
keep us posted on any new news on Street Fighter Eternal Challenge. its been a while since this book was made but not an english version for it.
Had mine here in the uk on friday! 22.99 the price for us english fans.
Its ok the paper quality is a little poor and i was under the impression that the book was going to be a hard cover or at least a harder cover then the one provided, it could have done with a dust cover.
The features inside are ok i mean that art is superb but the writing is littered with mistakes and to be honest expect for the breakdown of each character section there not much to really care for.
The endings section is pretty good but im not sure if a lot of the endings in there have the dialogue taken from the Japanese versions and translated into english or if its the Americanised endings.
But what i did find quite interesting was the round table interview in the back of the book, some silly questions but still and entertaining little read but not essential if youve got the Japanese version.
Anyone wants a copy in the UK i can do one for 22.99 plus shipping depending on your location for as long as stocks last.
EKO any chance of a 1.5 verison with better quality paper and a hardcover or at least a dust cover? Later down the line anyway/
You killed my interest right there. :tdown: For the same price i can buy 12 comics or a japanese artbook (like Capcom Design Works: Early Days). I guess ill pass.
It was not my intention to put you off it was just my opinion its that kind of thin and shiny paper which for me personally makes me feel that i may rip it as im turning the pages no matter how careful i am.
It’s the information I care about primarily. I probably have most of the art anyway. So I’ll still be over the moon to have it. And I have bought LOTS of art books in the past with sub-par paper quality and still be very happy with the product. Roll on Thursday!! 
I just went to my comic book store today and they didn’t have it.
:sad: :sad: :sad:
The paper used is 80 lb glossy. We have gotten qoutations of different weight of paper and eventually settled with this stock due to the balance of the printing cost.
We have orders of only around 2000 units to begin. While I am sure that we can possibly move much more that this, we have to look at the real hard number that come back in from Diamond and decide what to do. Do we want to use a thick stock but have to raise the price to about 45 bucks retail instead? Or keep it affordable to everyone at 35?
We printed 4500 of them, double of what was ordered, coz we believe in our product. COMON! This is the VERY FIRST SF history book EVER translated into english! But until those sells through, we still have to shell out the printing cost of the stock, let alone pays for all the translations, layouts, output, and of coz Capcom’s licensing fees.
And yes, as Jim said, there are some typo and minor mistakes that we missed, even me, Jim, Gala, and the people looking at the files for approvals at Capcom have gone through the book so many times… I guess by looking at it everyday for 2 months, we are getting blinded by it…
Will we be doing a Version 1.5? It is too early for us to say. If the overprint stock sold out, I would certainly like the idea of a revised edition sometime in the future.
All in all, I am still very proud of the project. 300 pages of Capcom history that finally can be shared with all the english reading fans. I hope you would enjoy it. It’s our sweat and blood for more that 60 days work that brings this book to your hands!
Thank you!
i placed my order for this book already and can’t wait to get it. i don’t have much of a beef with the paper quality. for as long as i can see and read what’s on it and it’s not toilet-paper, i’ll take it for the decent price range it brings the book down to.
i understand Udon’s a young company, and they’ll need our support. one way to support them is by giving some consideration for the products they’re providing us with. like erik said, this is THE first piece of capcom history to be fully released in english, and is even better in terms of content than its japanese counterpart. i’m happy i waited out on the japanese version to get my hands on this one.
given what Udon’s given us for the relatively short time its been existence, i’m quite pleased and give my full support to them. thankfully they’ve overprinted, as i’m sure a lot of fans will want a piece of the SF history. 
Here, here. Still awaiting my order to come in.
hmm how come no place else has it? my comic store had it since december 31st.
My place doesn’t have it…
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Ive been wondering that too weve had our copies here since friday passed!
Heroes World got their copies early. Any other places have copies? I believe the official street date from Diamond is this Wed.
preview up here:
http://www.popcultureshock.com/reviews.php?id=3775
scanned the cover, front page, sample “goods” page (to show non-artwork page), and back cover
Yes it is listed for this Thursday on my comic stores website. And I live in New Zealand so the states should have it on Wednesday.
Got my Eternal Challenge yesterday, its great and for 22.50 i rekon its a bargin :tup:
off topic its been a great 14-15 months, i get a wonderful sf and darkstalkers comic, online versions of sf2/3, nice controllers and stick plus a damm fine players guide. All we need now is another animation
How “rare” the art is?!
There are things i cannot find on the web?!
depends, knowing some people they will scan it and show everyone -_-.