Back before Karl and Kalif. Back before Woodeye. Back even before Nahrm, there was Samantha and Alex, the Accidental Centaurs. John Lotshaw created them about six years ago now. I enjoyed the stories, the humor, and the artwork.
Due to a confluence of events, I was fortunate enough to first wrangle both John and Anne Onymous into doing a crossover of their comics. They punished me for it by making me plot it. A great time was held by all and it became a friendship with John that I easure.
A couple of years later, John needed to take some time off. I suggested that I could write a story to fill that time. Again, luck was with me in the fact that I could get an artist that I had long admired — Darin Brown — to do the artwork. This story became “Bride and Prejudice.” The story was so well received, John decided to take another month off and left writing and art duties to me and Darin. For those who purchased the AC compilation “Tales from otherSpace,” know the circumstances that led up to it, but I wanted to make a story that highlighted Alex’s character. In this course, I created a bunch of throwaway characters based off of a cheap Cheers joke. So, Darin and I had created a tall, muscular blacksmith character named Nahrm Maulin. And with Nahrm, I had decided to have the bartender named “Wood-Eye” (Nahrm/Norm, Wood-eye/Woody. The jokes just wrote themselves!)
And that was to be the last we saw of those characters.
Nahrm and Woodeye (who lost his hyphen…) made another return for a poker game strip in AC, along with new characters Karl and Kalif.
And then Darin asked about continuing on the characters in our own webcomic.
And so, Crossworlds was created.
And now you know. And knowing’s half the battle…
So, go and visit John and the Accidental Centaurs at http://www.accidentalcentaurs.com. And tell him that you came by way of Crossworlds!