After The Battle of the Quagmire, Brandon and I decided that we needed to do something TOTALLY different for a while. We decided to go back in time a few years, and see what Hawk & Croc were like during High School. This had a few advantages, including that we wouldn’t have to top the Quagmire stuff. It also gave us the ability to introduce new characters HERE that could just return whenever we went back to the present timeline, and the characters and readers would already be familiar with them.
Brandon decided he wanted high school-era Croc to have a bunch of mini dreadlocks, and I gave Hawk shorter hair to indicate that he was still growing it out. But otherwise, they still needed to be recognizable, especially since we were about to introduce a bunch of new characters.
We didn’t reset the numbering, because this was always intended to be a flashback story. Looking back years later, maybe we should have? Either way, we stuck with this decision.
You can go to HawkAndCroc.com right now and read School Daze in its entirety.