In another world, not to dissimiliar to ours...

an amateur Boxer is on his way to the top! 23 Year Old Ace Sweetheart is a charming, honest and hardworking Clown who's starting to make waves in the amateur Boxing scene after training for a few years. But unfortunately, his road to the top has hit a nasty roadblock.

Finishing up a training session on the Speedbag, a final blow from Ace causes a thunderous explosion, blasting sand across the gym! Shocked at this surprising display of power, Ace learns that he has Moxie, a powerful aura that Clowns can tap into for supernatural powers and strength.

Under the teachings of his boxing coach's friend and Moxie Master, Ace will learn to control his new found power while making new friends, rivals and discovering the wild underworld that lays beneath this sleeply little town!

Ring the bell! It's time for Hi-Striker!!

So here's something that might come as a shock, maybe even more so than me doing OC stuff is still relatively a recent thing: I wasn't always a fan of Clowns.

When you're young and 'slow' like I was, it takes a lot to overcome the smallest fears.

And seeing both Stephen King's It and Killer Klowns From Outer Space as a little kid with Asperger's made it nearly impossible to appreciate the artistry of Clowning.

Despite that, I still had some kind of odd fascination with Clowns as I grew in the coming years. I don't know how to describe it, but I always had some inclination towards Clowns or Clown adjacent characters in media, like Clown Man from Mega Man 8 or Harley Quinn from Batman: TAS. It was with characters like them that I was able to see Clowns in a better light, better understanding Clowns as a concept. Or something like that. I also owe thanks to BechnoKid and their Clown Alien OCs, the Balatrums, a race of dapper and dashing Clown folk that probably did a lot of the heavy lifting in quelling my fears.

Eventually my fear was conquered and I could finally enjoy Clowns. So much so that one day during my early OC Making Years of 2014 or so, which also coincided with my big Bancho Phase, I had a thought: What If I Made Clowns...That Were Bancho?

Ironically that would eventually lead to Tough Breaker with it's heavy Delinquent focus (at least during it’s High School era), but the seeds were still sown: Clown-Themed Battle Action was something I wanted to do and it'd appear in Tough Breaker with the likes of Kidd being a mainstay character. In fact, one facet of Kidd early on was that he was a budding artist who was making a Shounen-inspired Battle Comic of his own. And it just so happened that his cast was full of Clowns.

And what was supposed to be a fun little character detail eventually became its own little thing that I'm still working on a decade later. And much like TB, H-S has yet to be properly written as well...But hey.

If I conquer my fear of Clowns, I'll eventually write out Hi-Striker. Just gotta be patient with me!