8 Ways to Sunday

from Queen of Wands, ©2003 Aeire

Over the weekend, I stumbled across a web comic called Queen of Wands that I’d definitely recommend to fans of the genre. Written and drawn by a woman who calls herself Aeire, the comic has a story arc and characters that make it worthwhile to follow from the very beginning. One of the best things about QoW, however, is the occasional one-off strips that stand on their own.

My favorite of these is this strip, which spoofs Captain Planet and the Power Rangers to vent the author’s occasional desire to speed up natural selection a bit. It seems that stupid people are breeding and taking over the world, and all that stands in the way is a team of spunky teenagers with the power to invoke Charles Darwin and his Chainsaw of Natural Selection. There’s a great follow-up a week or so later, in which the comic’s leading lady — who has little patience for the aggressively stupid — feels compelled to do some gene pool disinfection of her own and is barely kept from killing a customer by her boss.

If you liked those, you’d probably also get a kick out of the occasional appearances of the Grammar Nazi — an old lady who fights (violently) against poor spelling, bad grammar, and the scourge of netspeak. The best of these is probably “The Grammar Spork.” The strip has it all: foaming at the mouth, furniture chewing, eyeball removal by plastic kitchen utensil, and a low price of just four payments of $29.95. Get your own Grammar Spork™ today, for quick and easy relief from the pain of poor grammar.