Round One, Fight! Udon Entertainment Releases Street Fighter Unlimited #1 on Wednesday
By Staff Reports
The wait for STREET FIGHTER UNLIMITED, the new hard-hitting monthly comic series from UDON Entertainment, is almost over! UDON is pleased to announce that Street Fighter Unlimited #1 will be available for purchase at various high-quality comic and video game retailers as well as digitally via comiXology on Wednesday, December 9th. Yes, you read that right: Street Fighter Unlimited #1 will be the first-ever UDON comic to receive a “day-and-date” digital release alongside the physical book!
UDON has also partnered with several comic and video game stores to provide a slew of retailer-exclusive variant covers for Street Fighter Unlimited #1, giving fans who opt for the physical book plenty of gorgeous art to choose from. The retailers who will be offering these exciting variant covers include Amazing Comic Cons, AOD Collectables, Books-A-Million, GAME, GameStop, Heroes Haven, Newbury Comics, and Strange Adventures.
The good news doesn’t stop there! Street Fighter Unlimited #1 – and every issue of the ongoing series thereafter – will ship with two standard covers courtesy of fan-favorite digital painter Genzoman and beloved UDON artist Jeffrey “Chamba” Cruz. Even more excitingly, Chamba’s covers will all connect to form one massive 12-part image showcasing all the playable characters from every Street Fighter game ever – over 60 characters in total!
The release of Street Fighter Unlimited #1 kicks off a thrilling, all-new story for the beloved World Warriors, brought to you by the main creative team of writer Ken Siu-chong and artist Joe Ng (Street Fighter Origins: Akuma). This first issue also features a bonus backup story by fan-favorite writer/artist duo Jim Zub (Wayward) and Edwin Huang (Skullkickers)!
It isn’t too late to pre-order Street Fighter Unlimited #1! Either head to your local comics retailer or point your browser to www.comiXology.com to reserve your copy now. You don’t even need to defeat Ryu’s Shoryuken to stand a chance!
Previews of Street Fighter Unlimited #1’s various covers can be found on UDON’s website within the following blog post: http://www.udonentertainment.
STREET FIGHTER UNLIMITED #1
DETAILS: 32pg, Full Color, $3.99 USD
RELEASE DATE: December 9th, 2015
DIAMOND COMICS ORDER CODES:
OCT151710 STREET FIGHTER UNLIMITED #1 CVR A (Story cover)
OCT151711 STREET FIGHTER UNLIMITED #1 CVR B (Ultra Jam variant)
OCT151712 STREET FIGHTER UNLIMITED #1 CVR C (Blank Sketch cover)
ABOUT UDON ENTERTAINMENT
UDON Entertainment is a publisher of original and translated art books, graphic novels, and manga. UDON boasts an incredible lineup of highly sought-after products with production quality and English localization work that is second to none. Our best-known projects are those based on popular video game franchises, including Street Fighter, Okami, Mega Man, Dark Souls, Persona, Bayonetta, Valkyria Chronicles, Sonic the Hedgehog, and many more. UDON also publishes books based on top anime properties including Neon Genesis Evangelion, Gurren Lagann, and Haruhi Suzumiya as well as completely original projects like RandomVeus, Makeshift Miracle, and Substrata.
UDON’s creative services division is dedicated to providing high-quality artwork to the entertainment industry in the form of sequential art, character designs, packaging artwork, style guides, illustration, and graphic design. Our clients include Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Capcom, Nintendo, Disney, Legendary Pictures, Warner Brothers, Mattel, Hasbro, and many other partners in the fields of film, television, comic books, toys, and video games.