My memories of QUEEN OF WANDS are mostly GOOD: the art was eccentric, but enjoyable, with marked improvement over the years. QUEEN OF WANDS also had a much smaller cast, allowing Aeire to create a consistent focus on her protagonist, Kestrel, and the people around her. Milholland, the guest appearances by Charles Darwin and the Grammar Nazi still amused. It was an easy jump to make QUEEN OF WANDS had a similar tone in its heavily-cynical approach to geek culture, and if Aeire wasn't as vicious as R.K. When they're done properly, spin-offs are a welcome extension/continuation of a great story - of course, that concept is problematized in a mainstream where most stories never actually end (case in point: you have to wonder what would've happened if NEW MUTANTS had supplanted X-MEN rather than supplimented it).Д«ut webcomics can be - and often are - finite, which leaves the door open for the question Peter Milligan put best in ENIGMA: 'And then what?'ДЄeire's QUEEN OF WANDS was an early favorite of mine I discovered it during its second crossover with SOMETHING POSITIVE in 2004. It's hardly a foreign concept in the biz: every X-MEN eventually begets a NEW MUTANTS (though, like Pringles and Lolcats, it rarely stops with just one). If I made it through Rob Liefeld's heyday without having my eyes poked out by Cable's pointy feet, I can beat my husband's fascination with transparent windows.ДЄnyway, I thought we'd take a look at spin-offs today. No quarter was asked, none was given, and mark my words, I will get Vista off my computer.

Sorry for the hold-up, but I've been locked in a cosmic battle between good and evil for the past few weeks (I'll let you guys decide which side I was on).

You spin me right round star wars