Yay! Got it today after some amazingly fast international shipping… I thought it would take weeks. I’ve only opened it yet (got SF #12, DS #1 and two Transformers issues as well), but I’ll post detailed impressions in the SF plot discussion thread (under fanfics).
My shop had my copy and my brother’s. I haven’t had a chance to fully go through it yet, but it looks damn good.
I got it and am very happy with my purchase! Great job Udon! Currently pulling an all nighter to read it from cover to cover…
I haven’t picked it up yet, but I got a chance to browse through the open copy the shop had. The store had about 5 copies for sale.
The book is softcover and is thick but light. The paper quality is similar to what is found in Gamepro and Nintendo Power magazines. There were a good number of art pieces that I’d never seen before. I noticed a couple of interview sections. The character sections seem to have screenshots of each character’s super moves. The history of SF games section look pretty comprehensive. The ending section have the USA endings. I didn’t notice these, but in another thread it was mentioned that there are notes of some kind if the Japanese endings were different than the US ones.
Overall, it is a good purchase for the SF fan, but may not be that interesting to the casual comic store patron.
I just finished reading the book (this took me literally hours!) Having the Japanese version already I already had the artwork (but it’s cool to just look under the drawing and read the Artist’s name instead of looking everything up…) though the best parts for me were definitly the parts that described the history of the Video Games and the great interviews. (I can’t read Japanese…) The stories were good but a bit brief (But the Japanese version is like this too.) I also liked the bonuses you added, the San Diego Interview, the SF merchandise in the US and the translations of the Japanese Move names. I found errors here and there but nothing too big. Thank you so much Studio Udon for all your hard work, this is a great addition to anyone who even remotly likes SF! :tup: :tup: :tup: :tup: :tup:
Eternal Challenge Review
First off, don’t ever let it be said that I’m not a fan of Street Fighter and Udon Comics! For I now have in my possession: A COPY OF STREET FIGHTER ETERNAL CHALLENGE!!!
I was lucky enough to just walk into my local comic book shop and there it was, staring me in the face (The store I go to sometimes gets exclusive items such as SF issue #0…). After a quick trip home to change my shorts, I was back at the store and I swiped it up quick.
First off, quick question for Udoneko (I practically cheered out loud when I saw you guys at the end, BTW. 
). Did you guys have Shinkiro do a cover just for the US SF Eternal? It was pretty good.
It was a good read. Most of the artwork I had already seen in some form or another, but I really liked Kinu Nishimura’s work most of all. She needs to do a cover for the comic, or a back up story. Then again, like Shinkiro, you could probably only get her to do a cover. (Cover-only was best for Shinkiro though IMO. I’ve never seen anything from her that depicts the characters doing anything else but posing or standing around.)
Also, the interviews & game histories make for good reading.
Also cool was the US media section. Though I find it odd that while you included the US cartoon and the Alpha movie, the SFII anime, SFIIV, and the Van-Damme SF movie were nowhere to be found. Maybe you could do another book with synopses of the various comics, cartoons and movies of SF.
Also, in the character art histories, most of the SF Alpha 2 art was labeled SF Alpha 3.
Don’t get me wrong though. I am very happy to own a copy of this magnificent book.
Cheers to you Udoneko!! :bgrin: :bgrin: :bgrin:
I know I’m not Udoneko lol but that pic was in the Japanese version in the merchandise area, originally it was the artwork for some kind of mat? It’s the pic with Chun-Li, either the Earth or moon in the distance and some shadowy characters such as Ryu, Sakura, Bison, Guile and Akuma in the background right?
I still haven’t got this yet, I won’t be paying my seller for it for a little while as I can’t afford it but I am most definitely looking forward to seeing the book in English :tup:
I think the characters on the cover are:
Chun Li, Ryu, Guile, Alex, Sakura, Cammy, Bison, Gouki
Yep that’s the art I was thinking of.
WHEW! I am so glad that you guys liked it! Anyhow, as Jim and myself said before, it does have some errors so if you happen to find them and got the time, please e-mail them to us (info@udoncomics.com) with the subject of “SFEC fixes”, that would be great help. And I do prefer e-mailing us would be better than posting them in a thread. Jim has already started going thru the book with a red pen, but we are all only human so there might be something that we miss among the 300 pages…
As for the cover, it is used in Japan as the 15th anniversary lithograph that is sold for hundreds of dollars. We like the art so much that we decided to use it as the US cover!
And for Shinkiro-sensei, he was actually a manga artist before becoming an illustrator! When we were at Capcom Japan, Kinu-sensei came over and showed us her prize possesion of a copy of an old manga by Shiniro! It is in some old fashion manga style but you can still very clearly see his touch. Now he rarely picks up a pen. Do you know, Shinkiro-sensei does not even use pencil and paper at all? Everything he has done is just on the computer. Sketching, layout, drawing, painting. Even with the CFJ images! It is pretty amazing to see how he works. (his desk is the cleanest of all Capcom artists, coz there is not a piece of paper and a pen or pencil on it, while all others are messed with sketches and layouts and design sheets like any artists in the world! LOL!)
Udoneko - Great. I’ve jotted the errors I noticed down (some of them seem to be errors in the original Japanese book translated however, wrong info on what happens in some of the games in the History section, where most of the errors I found are, not your fault) and I’ll send them along.
This thing is selling very well on www.ruppsworld.com
They shipped out 6 orders while I was there today.
And they have plenty in stock.
Whether or not you are planning to release another version, it would be nice to have an SFEC errata section on your webpage where you could list any corrections and people can print it out if they like.
That is actually a VERY good idea. So please get the notes coming and I will probably do something after a few weeks of notes!
Thanks The V for the idea!
Question for Udoneko
I noticed that Bengus was listed a lot in the artists section. I thought he changed his moniker to CRMK was this just for Capcom design works, or did he change his nickname back to Bengus?
Bengus and CRMK is the same person. So to avoid confusion, we use Bengus to credit all work he did, as he is more well known as that nick name than CRMK.
Thanks! Happy to help.
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I called all of the comic book shops in San Francisco, none of them has this and none of them will even GET them…
I never bought any comics off the internet before, can someone recommend me a reliable site?
ALL the comic book shops? You should probably check out Galaxy Comics in Daily City on Mission. It might take a while to get there but they might have it. That place is pretty big…
www.ruppsworld.com has several copies of Eternal Challenge, not to mention all the issues for SF/DS. (they ship anywhere)
Another hint, you can go to www.streetfightercomic.com, they have a bunch of links to different stores that ship.
This question is asked at least once a week, can we get a sticky on some links or something?