I like Udon. I like their work ethic and I like how they’ve set themselves up. They were originally a rival to Dreamwave Production, but have since grown up a lot. If memory serves me correctly several members of the then fledging DW decided to leave and setup a collective as it were. They became UDON. Now they’re published under the Devil’s Due publishing umbrella.

I will say one thing for Devil’s Due, is that they’ve definitely set themselves up pretty strongly, in terms of the additional people they’ve brought on board.

Udon is a good start, and they’ve got a pretty healthy line of books coming out. Street Fighter, DarkStalkers and Rival Schools. Fair enough they’re all Capcom licensed products, but still the work is good fun, as it should be. The art is true to the video games, I just wish this stuff came out when I was actually really into Street Fighter etc, but hey it’s a nice little reminder of simpler days.

Getting Studio Ice should be a welcome to the DD publishing branch, depending on how successful it actually is, I’m hopeful but not overly. I might check out a comic on the stands.

Finally I’m actually looking forward to CannonBusters. Just seems like another good fun type of book. I know it’ll be a good read as well since one of my favorite writers is helping out. J Torres man. He’s written the Copybook Tales, Sidekicks and Days Like These, and a slew of other books.

Speaking of Sidekicks, man I love that series. Really well put together, one of the best books to come out in a long while, and Takeshi’s art was sublime. I had a quick look at what he’s been doing for marvel, i.e Mary Jane, and I must say the colouring really does ruin his beautiful work. Not only that but the constraints of a monthly book also really shows in the lack of backgrounds. Such a shame as well since he’s such a great talent but due to the fact he’s got to pump out this book at such a fast rate he’s probably rushed his job and you can tell.