Queen of Wands

I want to talk about Queen of Wands now, because it is unique amoungst the webcomics that I have seen, in that it ended. I don't mean stopped, like elf only inn, or rpg world (which I shamefully failed to mention before. It's excellent), I mean it had a real conclusion, that the author, Aerie, planned this.

[Although, having claimed that it is unique in this, both Wendy and the Repository of Dangerous Things came to a reasonably planned end.]

So anyway, Queen of Wands. Like a lot of other webcomics, this one is an autobiographical webcomic, although towards the end it becomes less like the authors life. As with Something Positive, it is concerned with relationships, not noble quests to defeat evil. It actually has quite a lot of similarities to something positive, to the point that they had frequent crossovers. It is very dialogue heavy, and the characters are verbose. It's characters are certainly kinder than those of Something Positive, but to be honest thats not too hard to achieve.

An interesting thing about Queen of Wands is that, once it was finished, Aerie decided (after fan pressure), to rerun it, showing exactly the same strips but with a bit of commentary about it. This is a neat idea, and I don't think one that is done very frequently- some webcomics will write somethng about the day's strip, but nothing that insightful. Also, on a random note, Queen of Wands uses a version of infinte canvas, a sometimes derided technique which I think works well in this case.