Its sweet that I made Cool Joe seeking comfort to Shakes 🤭 It could’ve been Dancing Rasta if like your siblings accidentally hits you and you cry over to your parents 😆 He was kidding with the sad act, making Tiger guilty.
Yugiro thinks it’s ridiculous to wear it in public 😆at least Miko was trying to be helpful 😎
Imagine if the whole Nakama team wear the meme glasses just to spite Ura Giri 🕶️
About the comic, yes Miko bought a new pair of the meme glasses despite Ura Giri broke them before. He’s a professional footballer with money, he can do whatever he wants 💴
Also, I just gave them simple casual outfits for this occasion ☀️ Usually I draw Miko with a blue henley shirt if you notice.
I drew this comic like a month ago but never finished it. I still have more WIPs art and ideas :,)
Extra doodles
Shinji was impressed by Miko’s latest trick meanwhile Yugiro… not so much 😅
A gift for @reggie28fuzz 🎁 You’re the reason why I join the Supa Strikas fandom because of your CoolTiger fanarts on tiktok when I discovered it back in December 💜❤️ I love your artworks 👏 They’re amazing ✨ Thank you for drawing them 🫶 I hope you had a wonderful birthday 🎂 Sorry its a bit late 🙏
AAAAAHH TYSMM, THIS HONESTLY MEAN SOO MUCH TO ME SUPPORTING MY COOLTIGER FANARTS 4 SO LONGG!, I'm really happy my artworks helped you discover the Supa Strikas fandom That's actually so sweet to hearr🥹🥹,And don't worry about being late at all!! Your message seriously made my day wishes and for loving my art! ^^
And thank you for the gift too!! NGL I reallyyyy love your artstyle!! ^^🤍
Cool Joe if he was based and stayed with the Sultans........
Rambles about Sultans!Cool Joe below vvvv
Immediately became the Sheikh's favorite because he was THE player Sheikh wanted, and everything went his way, so that already put Joe high up on Sheikh's "Favorite people" list.
As a result, he gets insanely spoiled by the Sheikh. Not only cause he's genuinely skilled, but because it gave the Sultans a huge popularity boost [and overall attention due to the controversy OF Cool Joe leaving the Strikas suddenly] AND Sheikh likes to use this as a means to gloat in front of Supa Strikas that he 'won over' one of their own team members.
It took a while for Joe to get used to the Sultans. He barely knew them, and they ONLY knew him for his soccer skills, but after enough time they started to bond. Not all of them want to do victory dances with him sadly :[
He actually doesn't do too many victory dances at the Goliath/The Oasis just because it gets so humid and his energy is horribly drained once the game is over. He'll still TRY, but he's never able to adjust to the humidity.
Speaking of which, the way his hair started to cling onto the back of his neck and the overall sensation the humidity gave him drove him crazy so he cut trimmed his afro down a TON, but didn't want to truly get rid of it.
When Joe mentioned he missed his club back at his old home, the Sheikh helped him open a new one. It's where he and the rest of his team usually go to celebrate their victories. Some of his teammates enjoy dancing with him, such as Fast Farouk, their goal keeper :]
Zoom holds some resentment towards Joe. They don't get along much. Zoom truly wanted to be captain of the team and worked incredibly hard, only for Joe to basically be served the opportunity on a silver platter..
I think Cool Joe would hate the Amal 3 in a whole other way. He had to leave his home behind, he left his team, he left his friends, he left behind his hard work for a huge HUGE change in his life that he didn't even know if it's truly work out in the end. So then 3 new guys come waltzing in with basically little to NOTHING to lose, guys who've made no where NEAR the amount of sacrifices he did and immediately getting all this special treatment? He hates how it makes him feel, he hates questioning the Sheikh's generosity, and the thought he could be REPLACED by those 3 nobodies? It made him angry.
Joe left because he thought he wasn't getting the recognition he deserved. He still believes the Strikas didn't appreciate him, and the Sheikh feeds into this insecurity. Whenever Sultans go against Strikas, it's tense between the two captains.
A gift for @reggie28fuzz 🎁 You’re the reason why I join the Supa Strikas fandom because of your CoolTiger fanarts on tiktok when I discovered it back in December 💜❤️ I love your artworks 👏 They’re amazing ✨ Thank you for drawing them 🫶 I hope you had a wonderful birthday 🎂 Sorry its a bit late 🙏
MAN, I really wish we had access to the older comics, so we could see what Supa Strikas was like before they started to put more emphasis on the animated series…
So anyways, here’s a drive of some old comics I scanned a while ago and compiled into their own PDFs on my Supa Strikas focused Google Drive.
Link to the drive here!
In collaboration with @strike-em-down, we have an archive of a bunch of old comics that haven’t been seen online before! There have been some panels here and there, but I can say with full confidence that for many of the panels we’ve seen, the archive will have the comics that came from them. As well, these comics from the folder are going onto the Supa Stars website! Please check it out!
There are 38 comics in the drive, with 4 comics that have been seen before. One of them being Own Ghoul (#119), and the other three being Building Spirit (#89), Just Desserts (#97), and Trapped! (#98). The last three mentioned were scanned and translated by @nenemii, but I will say that the version that Nemi has scanned is very different from the comics I scanned, seeing as some panels are missing from Nemi’s version.
(Nenemii's scan on the left, mine on the right)
I do believe Nenemii’s version is different because it was released in the Philippine Star, which is a newspaper, so it had to be condensed in a certain way to fit in the newspaper.
Speaking of condensing, you will see that most of the PDFs have the word “compressed” in the title, and that’s just because when I originally made a PDF for each of those comics, the data was so high that it didn’t preview the cover page properly in the drive. So I apologize if the quality isn’t up to par, as well for some of the pages looking off. When I was scanning the comics, some of them were kind of fragile to handle, and no matter how many times I tried to straighten the page before scanning it, it still always came out a bit crooked.
Also, a lot of the comics will have the same ads that repeat in certain places. While I had thought about not scanning every page with an ad, I do believe in the preservation and archiving of old media. I also believe this gives the reader an idea of what messages were important to Strika Entertainment back then, with ads such as road safety and getting tested for HIV, I’m sure these comics were mostly aimed for kids, but they definitely also targeted the adults in the family too (especially with the amount of Spurs restaurant ads in every comic). There are some comics that have a double spread that isn’t an ad or a contest, but I felt I couldn’t skip those either.
Either way, this is something I didn’t think I would be able to do, let alone think this could ever happen in my life time. Ever since I became a fan of this series, I dreamed of reading these older comics, but also to re-read some of them. Back before the website was changed to fit with Moonbug’s branding, there was a time when the website would put up the comics for everyone to read.
And I loved them all! I honest to god wished some of those comics became episodes, like one of my favourite comics Rooftop Shake Up! (#95). I do believe this is the comic that got me interested in looking more into the series, while the Communication Blok episode from Season 1 is what made me a fan.
I want to thank Strikes for being the one to encourage me to join them on this endeavour, because while I didn’t have hope at the time, they had that optimism and hope that I couldn’t turn away from. And I also want to thank Shirls ( @yanxioustrikas ) for going over the comics with me and them, to make sure nothing was out of place, upside down or duplicated in the PDFs.
And I want to thank all of you guys for taking the time to read this post, along with Strike’s post. I’m very excited to share these with all of you, as I know many of you have been wanting to see what the older comics looked like. This is the proof of their existence, and I hope you all have a wonderful time reading them all.
Also, small PS...
I made another drive folder that is basically a Master List of all the comics that we, as a community and fandom, have found. This has the comics that I have scanned, and the comics from another Google Drive, including those from the website before it got taken over by Moonbug.
I was the one who actually found those comics from the website, back when it had the yellow background and everything. I had them in their own folders with their separate pages, but I have compiled them into PDFs for easier reading. The one thing I do not have in there are the comics that were translated from Hebrew, from the Supa-Stars website. I still need to get the files, but I will be adding them into the Master List folder in due time.
Here's the link to it! Share it with others if you'd like, along with the other other link too. I feel like this kind of day has a been a long time again and once again, I am ecstatic to share this with all of you.
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.
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