Happy, you don't like
The Wotch and that's your business.
That said, the creative crew there are WLP fans and could quite possibly read this thread, so I do feel I should re-read the bit in question and clarify for others.
(Yes, this is way off topic. I'll remember this and be lenient in future (for a while) on other digressions.)
As a preface, it should be mentioned that the chapter "Consequences" was a followup to a great many transformations, most of them wrought during the previous chapter "SchizophrANNEia". In that chapter the main character, Anne, a Wotch (think witch with extra bacon and cheese) experiments with a spell to split herself off so she can be in more than one place at one time. The spell-generated clones, however, are highly concentrated representations of one aspect of her personality. Without the balance of things like, for example, morals, they tended to wreak magical havoc before being stopped.
One of these clones was the representation of her feminine pride, and this is the one who zapped the jocks. At the end, when Anne's various clones were reabsorbed into Anne, Anne did not get their memories- so she had no knowledge herself of what her clones had done.
In "Consequences," Anne summons back up her feminine pride clone to get the full story. Here are the relevant pages:
http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2005-09-23
http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2005-09-26
So: the football boys were not unwritten so much as adjusted to get them to stop acting uber-macho to prove their masculinity. Anne's clone ONLY amplified the non-jock aspects of their personality, including personal memory rewrites. The rest of the town had their memories rewritten by a Mysterious Cloaked Figure, Miranda West, a former Wotch... indeed, the other characters of late refer to her as the Wicked West of the Wotch.
(And, incidentally, a development in the most recent chapter just concluded shows that Miranda is still very much in ends-justify-the-means mode, having cursed the Stereotypical Nosey Person- the Wotch version of Arthur Hazen, really- so that not only is he now a she, but anyone s/he tells about Miranda, Anne, or anything else magical will ALSO be gender-swapped. There's your moral lack, there.)
Anyway, back to the story. Anne goes to meet parents, some RPG buds of one of the transformed, and then finally addresses the victims themselves:
http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2005-10-21
And the fundamental moral issue is brought up here:
http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2005-10-24
Specifically, if everyone- including the victims themselves- is happier, and if nothing has been changed except their need to appear big, tough and brutal to fulfill gender stereotype, does Anne have the right to undo things for the sake of restoring the status quo ante?
The secondary quandary, of course, is whether or not happy ignorance should be preserved or full disclosure should be given to ensure knowledge and consent- where full disclosure could, and probably would, prevent happiness in the future regardless of outcome.
Now, I admit, all of the above might well be backwards rationalization. That said, if it is authorial ax-grinding, it's a lot quieter than many other cases I've seen (or, on occasion, committed- see Milkmaid's "All Lawsuit Issue"). Of the four cases in the chapter, one case was as above; another was left unchanged with full disclosure coming from restored memories; another was attempted reversal without success; and another was reversed successfully. These cases are, incidentally, in ascending level of victim dissatisfaction with the change.
One last layer: the spinoff comic you mention makes it clear that Jo, the pigtailed cheerleader,
is the only one of the group who retains full memories and knowledge of the change. Most of the time she's happy with it, but there are occasions when she regrets it- because, at least in her case, the gender swap cost her most of her athletic ability.
OK, that's the full story on the aspect that caused you, Happy, to drop the comic. I still read and enjoy the comic, but you don't have to. (Likewise, a lot of people read
PvP, although I dropped it two years ago for reasons pretty much identical to Happy's for dropping
The Wotch.)
As someone else noted, we also gave a shoutout to
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya; maybe you'll like that better?
And my final, and most important, word:
don't confuse character beliefs and motivations for authorial beliefs and motivations.