Months ahead of its release, Street Fighter Prime #0 caused some controversy with some very horny covers featuring Chun-Li, sporting a wedding dress (well, barely, given the size of it) and what can only be described as unholy proportions.

Given that pretty much every UDON Entertainment title featuring Street Fighter, Darkstalkers or Final Fight characters has multiple variants, featuring near naked art of popular characters from the comic’s video game, I’m not sure why this one caused any more of a stir than others. If anything, despite its fairly NSFW nature, it was tamer than many, many others I’ve seen.

As you can see from the photo above, I didn’t opt for the borderline porn cover of Chun-Li when buying my copy of Street Fighter Prime #0 (if you really want to see the cover I’ve been talking about here, you can check it out on UDON’s official website); instead, mine does feature the Chinese Interpol agent in an improbable pose, but at least she’s fully clothed.

As someone who’s played as Chun-Li in the Street Fighter video games since the early 90s, I can never pass up the opportunity for cover variants featuring her prominently. At least, unless they’re those particularly thirsty ones.

Anyway, Street Fighter Prime #0 is intended to kick off the next year of Street Fighter comics, with a story setting multiple plots in motion, and introducing the potentially villainous organisation, Vortex. There’s some great stuff here for Street Fighter fans, with Zangief paired with muscular Italian gladiator Marisa, Guile coming to blows with Ken and the aforementioned Chun-Li investigating Vortex at the behest of spoiled rich kid, Karin.

The artwork varies in style throughout, supplied by a rotating cast of UDON creators; though the aesthetic may change every few pages, it’s all high quality, beautiful stuff. As to be expected from UDON, who have always done a consistently fantastic job of bringing Capcom’s universes to the comic book page.

Of course, if you haven’t been keeping up with either the games themselves or UDON’s long running, campy but hugely entertaining Street Fighter comics, this issue is unlikely to make much sense, or be of any interest to you. For fans, however, it continues to explore and expand upon Capcom’s fighting games with plenty of action and its tongue firmly planted in its cheek.

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