![]() Peppered amongst these enhanced reprints, I found amazing art that was totally new to me. Even during the years when it looked like we’d never see another Street Fighter game, Udon was still producing new Street Fighter comics. Years later, a group of comics professionals got together who actually appreciated the art of Street Fighter and other Capcom games, and by “appreciated,” I mean “worshipped.” While they’ve been tapped to work on projects related to the Metroid Primeseries, the film Inception, and the upcoming Godzilla reboot, the team at Udon inevitably comes back to the series that inspired it all: Street Fighter. Everything that I loved about Street Fighter was either badly mangled or removed completely, all in favor of a story and an art style that seemed to spit in the face of everything that made Street Fighter so special. I think I actually said “ YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP!” to myself as I read through it. ![]() ![]() I still remember the pain I felt after buying Malibu’s Street Fighter comic all those years ago. For a long time, American comic books consistently butchered the works of Japanese game developers with hackneyed, half-hearted game-to-comic adaptations. ![]()
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