First, a bit of commentary on the comic's history itself.

It starts with my discovery of webcomics. It started with Angela Beaman's Furfire (blame her) and I have since worked my way through the archives of between sixty and seventy webcomics. Fifty-two of which I still read regularly, at the time of this writing. But anyway, I didn't get through many of them before thinking "Cool, I want one."

But I had a major problem. I could not draw (to all you people mentally saying, "You still can't" I reply, "Shutup"). Which was bad because I had a couple of ideas for some good comics in my head (one of which I still intend to draw someday), and I felt it would not do them justice to try and draw them with my current inabilty. So I decided to start drawing a crappy little fourth wall breaking comic called "The Odd World of Joshua Meyer." It would just be silly antics between myself, a talking tiger named Serenia, and whatever bizarre things popped into my head while drawing. That way it really wouldn't matter if anyone read it (since the Keenspace (now Comic Genesis) hosting was free regardless). I could feel like I was accomplishing something while simultaneously improving my ablity to draw.

Now, due to an odd stroke of luck involving Keenspace clearing out some several thousand inactive accounts and not taking new members, I was forced to delay the start of my comic. (I just became impatient and started it on my University computer account.) But the luck of the delay was that, while flipping through the College Roomates From Hell archives, I decided to throw aside the forth wall breaking idea and try and pursue some kind of plot with it.

Now, I won't go into details, but I got through forty-some strips before I was frustrated with it (If I can find them all I'll post them in Extas for notalgia's sake). Mostly I just didn't like where the plot was (or wasn't) going. So I decided just to scrap it and go back to square one.

So, a few months after scrapping the project I restarted the renamed comic "Our Odd World" here on Comic Genesis.

Now, all I needed was an actual story...

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