The strips featuring the mechanic and Deep Cut that appeared daily before Splatoon Raiders were comic strips. Released through the Nintendo Today! app, they formed a short promotional prequel to Nintendo’s Switch 2 spin-off.
The series was titled Deep Cut’s Island Misadventures. Its installments followed the mechanic and the musical trio—Shiver, Frye, and Big Man—as they prepared for the events of the game. The strips were set before the main adventure and were published daily from June 23 until the game’s July 23 launch.
These comics were more than isolated advertisements: they helped introduce the characters’ circumstances and supplied story context for the Spirhalite Islands setting. They can be confused with the dedicated Nintendo Direct videos or the game’s promotional gameplay footage, but the daily pre-release material was specifically presented as comics.