Creation
The Queen of Sirius IV was created by Scott McCloud for the first color volume of Zot!, in issue 6.
Major Story Arcs
The Queen is married to the King of Sirius, who runs the planet like a totalitarian state. She doesn’t believe in that approach to leadership but is unable to stop him. Her son is Drufus, who she is fairly cold and stand-offish to. He becomes a weak and timid teen. The Queen’s brother, Zarbim, is a hidebound traditionalist and supports the King because he is the King.
Some of the most senior other leaders of the planet are in a conspiracy to overthrow the King and start a war with Earth. They include General Schrapp, Grand Inquisitor Von Clokmann, bureaucrat Sam Twik, and royal advisor Weevis Swimbler.
Their plan involves corruptly using the Golden Key and the Doorway at the Edge of the Universe, but they are opposed by Zot and his friends.
They have the assassin 9-Jack-9 kill the King. Drufus then becomes king, but he is killed after clashing with some of the conspiracists’ troops. The Queen then becomes the leader of the planet. The conspiracists then try to have 9-Jack-9 kill the Queen, but she is saved by Zot and Jenny.
While leaving the palace, they run into Zarbim, who she convinces to join them.
Zot and his friends are skeptical that she will be more helpful and ethical than the King, but she starts making steps in the right direction. She has the idea for them all to hide out at the Sacred Cathedral on Shotaro, run by Father Kimm, since the conspiracists can’t attack it without being blasphemers. She also realizes that 9-Jack-9, being reliant on electricity, can’t hurt them in the cathedral, where technology is forbidden.
When Zot and Jenny go through the Doorway at the Edge of the Universe, it leads them to a future where all the dead heroes of Sirius have had their spirits transported into robot replicas as a form of tribute. The Queen’s body is there but her spirit is not yet in it. Drufus is also there.
Back in the present, the conspiracists decide to attack the cathedral after all, and capture the heroes, including the Queen. Luckily Jenny’s brother Butch and the De-Evolutionists counter-attack and free them.
Zot’s friend Vic, who has been hurt, was the last person to see Drufus alive. He talks about how he had grown and become braver toward the end, but it was no thanks to her and the way she treated him as a child. She starts to repent for her relationship with Drufus.
Zot soon defeats the conspiracists and the people ask him to be their new leader. Even the Queen asks him to stay. He says no, that they need to learn to lead themselves.
Alternate Versions
Within the world of “Dimension 10 1/2,” the stick-figure alternate universe created by Matt Feazell and running in the back of the black-and-white issues of Zot!, The King, Queen, and Drufus go to a movie about Zot along with many of the characters from Earth.