The exclusive Blockbuster Special Edition of Street Fighter Comic

[Apathy-Inc]

Not really…just a dick. And so’s apathy. wtf is up with insulting TimeStop, who’s not even part of this argument.

He’s usually the “Udon/Comicstore is ripping us off” whiner. Hence the reference? :tup:

[Artayes]

He’s usually the “Udon/Comicstore is ripping us off” whiner. Hence the reference? :tup:

Yes,Apathy is completely right.Timestop and Northlee both seem to have a problem with companies who care about their work AND want to make money.

[udoneko]

Another thing that has always irked me (since the begining actually) is the Con-exclusive issues. You can make 17 different covers for the people who can and will go to the cons, but DONT fuck the rest of us over by not releasing these issues for sale at the stands…IMO, it’s a big FUCK YOU to the casual fan, i.e. ME!.

That is why I always make sure that Ruppsworld and Herofix, our 2 “authorized” on-line retailer, will be allocated some of the goodies that are exclusive to the cons and make them available to you all.

FYI, there are indeed going to be some exclusive products planned for San Diego this year. No exclusive comics thou.

[Sano]

Honestly, Capcom is the one company that I feel is the BEST to work with, as they are very open to different ideas of merchandising and they encourage their licensees to work together, to grow together. They do care about the quality of stuff we are putting out, coz from the licensing manager in Japan, to the licensing agent in USA to the individual licensees, we all grew up playing SF and other Capcom games and that is why we are loving our jobs.

I’m just quoting this part since I’m a Capcom fanboy! :tup:

[Wolfkiller]

I know through personal experience that the peeps at UDON care very much about their customers and helping them get what they need. If you don’t like all of the covers, DON’T BUY THEM. Don’t concern yourself with what anyone else buys, it isn’t your goddamn business if I or anyone else chooses to collect every cover. I’m not a moron who will buy anything with the Street Fighter logo stamped on it (those horrible Jazzware figures for example…), so it’s not like UDON is exploiting my collecting addiction. If their comics were shit, I wouldn’t be buying them. I happen to like getting 3 different kick ass pieces of SF art with every issue. Who gives a fat baby’s ass about what you deem to be more important to spend money on?

[System_1]

Hmm, there are problems with the Jazwares Street Fighter line? Please tell me more, or link me to whatever might have been said. I don’t have any of those, but I do have the Mega Man stuff and a little say with what happens there(not that much, though), but I’m interested to know.

As for Capcom’s care of quality… it’s pretty objective, if you ask me(remember Dreamwave’s stuff?).

LBD “Nytetrayn”

[System_1]

I’m hoping people that think all the “extras” are a rip-off never run a business. Becuase the business will fail horribly. Entrepenuers would have a better understanding. If you can do a little something extra to increase funds, you better go for it.

I’ll be honest, I have been out of the SF loop in general for the longest. I didn’t even know there was a comic series (which I will check out as soon as possible). But even someone with the tinsiest bit of business knowledge knows you cannot survive on your core product.

[System_1]

That is why I always make sure that Ruppsworld and Herofix, our 2 “authorized” on-line retailer, will be allocated some of the goodies that are exclusive to the cons and make them available to you all.

FYI, there are indeed going to be some exclusive products planned for San Diego this year. No exclusive comics thou.

hmm…i guess i’ll be checking out this Ruppsworld you speak of.
and thanks for taking the time to answer me.

[Higher-Jin]

You think? Really so because Erik posted about the BB poject making them no money I’m still completely off-track huh?

I was going to keep quiet but nobody has said anything about Udon’s cashing in for ages thank you very much Erik, I’m the first in months.

Let’s see Udon are making a Street Fighter comic eh? Okay fine so I was wrong about the BB poject. Why you chose BB is beyond me since a game store only would have been a better choice than a video rental store. Anyways if Shinkiro costed you so much money why didn’t you just use your own artists? In fact why did you feel the need to change the artwork at all? The one would have been perfectly fine. If things are as bad as you imply then you keep that up and you’ll be out of funds.

My biggest gripe with Udon atm, why does a comic need 3 variants? For choice? No they hope that people will buy all of these variants and get ripped off collecting them because as Erik marginally pointed out they do make a little bit of money from it. The limited edition versions that you guys were constantly churning out for the first arc was just taking the piss and anyone who can’t see that is an idiot.

Anyways as I said Udon are making a comic, so let’s see we’re also getting busts, posters, action figures and god knows what crap is yet to come. Why is Udon doing this hm? This should be a Capcom deal, the official SF licence. If Capcom doesn’t do it that’s there bag but Udon is taking this poject with the merchandising department for all it’s worth and there’s little point in denying it. If they are making as little money as they say then they should be concentrating on the actual comic, not the crap that comes out for the fans.

Basically, Udon=creating comic not owners of SF franchise. Yet Capcom seem to be letting them do almost as they please, probably because as usual they’re too lazy to do anything themselves. In the end Udon is an organisation so yes they need to make money, but their money is supposed to be in the comic industry not all the other crap Capcom lets them come up with. If they can’t get the money from the comic alone, too bad.

Enter the fanboys.

A business is supposed to make money.

If you don’t like the covers then don’t buy them other people might and I’m sure they may make different covers just so they can attract new people with nice art.

you also act like sf is some huge ass business, I say if they can make more money they should after all it only helps them make more and makes us look like more of a potential market which means:

more sf shit

now i don’t know about you but I want more sf shit, if there was a sf alarm clark where ryu punched you in the face to wake you up I would buy it, even if I couldn’t stand the harsh beatings and die sometime down the line.

conclusion: Why are we even fighting about this we should be glad they are making the variant covers cuz they are trying to attract new customers and when there are enough potential customers we will get more sf merchandise.

A Ryu mug, Blanka shock tarts and Sagat scar repairing kit in 2010, bank on it.

[System_1]

A Ryu mug, Blanka shock tarts and Sagat scar repairing kit in 2010, bank on it.

lol

I’d be down for that alarm clock you spoke of too.