SIIIIGHHHHHHHH......
SIGHHHHHHH sometimes I’ll use the Wayback Machine to check out what the old Supa Strika website used to look like before it all got taken down. A lot of it looked really cool but I think the biggest and most tragic loss for me has to be the “Comic” page of the site. They had a ton of issues on there you could flip through and I’m sooooo sad that the archived page isn’t functional and not too many comics were saved……………
so anyways, @abyss-strikas and I worked together to collect and archive a bunch of old Supa Strikas comics that you can flip through on the new “Comics” tab on the Supa Stars website!!:
This is something I never thought would even be a POSSIBILITY of us having on our website, and it wouldn’t have BEEN possible had it not been for my amazing friend Abyss and everything she’s done throughout this journey.
We have comics ranging ALLLLLLL the way back from Stirkas’ early days, when Supa Strikas had VASTLY different players and oppositions, stories that haven’t been seen in FOREVER, all the way to the more recent comics that have the iconic characters we know and love today!
(When you click on a comic thumbnail, this is where it'll take you ^ !)
SOME QUESTIONS (and answers!):
“How did you get these comics?” - Through insane luck and timing, I won’t even lie. I happened to be at the right time and place and met some very wonderful people who were able to help send these comics to us.
“How long did this take to do?” - Much longer than anticipated. Coding the page took a hot minute, but actually RECEIVING the comics was the longest [and scariest] part.
“Aren’t some of these comics in that one Google Drive/shared by this one user?” - Nope! We can assure you everything that’s on this Comic Page is 100% ours. The collection we got just so happened to have some duplicates that are already known throughout the community. However, while we’re on the topic, I would like to shout out some users and link to some posts, such as @nenemii, who’s a wonderful member of the fandom that’s gone out of her way to scan and translate multiple Strika Comics: Trapped, Dooma's Day, Just Desserts, Building Spirit, and Hypno Test! @strika-archyvez, who’s shared a TON of great Supa Strika facts and panels from the older strika comics [and what got me insanely interested in the older comics in the first place], and @crimsoncognito, who has collected and shared a Google Drive containing a ton of archived Strika comics from the later 2010s! Thank you for sharing so much Strika stuff with the community :]
OTHER NOTES:
TRANSLATIONS - Some of the comics we received were in different languages. We’ve taken the time to translate them to the best of our ability, though there were certainly a few rough spots here and there [there’s one issue. I’m not gonna say which one. But Klaus says something kind of out of left field. We triple checked the translation and apparently that IS what he said.] Also, some of the translated comics had to be flipped, as the original publications were made to be read right to left, so if you notice some numbers or labels facing the wrong way, that’s why!
NAMES, DATES, AND ISSUE # - We tried our best to label and date these comics, however some didn’t have names, and others didn’t have dates. We worked with what we had + used the archived Strika Site for reference.
THE VERY FIRST COMIC - The comic you see on the top left corner of the first row, despite having text inside stating it got published in 2006, we believe might not be the case. Not only is the art style drastically different from the other 2006 comics, but when you read the story, you’ll see it’s VERY early on in Shakes’ career, and it references a real world tragedy that took place in 2002. However, we do not know when it COULD have possibly been published. This is why it’s been listed as “Possibly prior to 2006” on the site!
SIDE NOTE BOUT THE FIRST COMIC - It’s file size is larger than the other comics, so it takes several extra seconds to fully load! Wanted to give a proper heads up about that!
WEBSITE’S HAVING ISSUES/SOMETHING’S NOT LOADING? - If you’re ever having problems with the site or if something isn’t loading [or if neocities blips randomly….] then don’t worry!! Abyss has gone out of her way to archive and put everything on a google drive which you can check out here! ARCHIVED OLD COMICS
LINK TO ABYSS' POST HERE
Thank you so much for taking the time to read all of this, and being so patient for this surprise we’ve been working on for some time. I want to thank both @yanxioustrikas and Abyss for helping with the testing of the website to make sure everything was functioning alright, and I want to sincerely thank Abyss again for everything she’s done throughout this, from the scanning, to helping with the translations, none of this would’ve been possible without her, and I’m so glad to have a friend like her in the Supa Strikas fandom.
It’s so exciting to get to share so many comics with you all that were once considered lost media, with the only proof of their existence being old pictures of covers or snippets of pages. Please enjoy reading them, and thank you again for your time.
