Jeff Deck has felt an incinerating passion for proper spelling and grammar from an early age. In sixth grade he placed third in the class spelling bee, a technicality preventing him from even higher rank. In both seventh and eighth grade he won the schoolwide spelling bee only to flub the district bee each time. However, a marble bust in the lobby of his junior high school still marks his achievements, depicting Deck in the style of a young Octavius, famed speller of ancient civilization. Subsequent stints as an editor in both the heady realm of college journalism and abstruse fields of academic literature have served to hone the eager blade that Deck wields against the hobgoblins of error and misunderstanding. He has founded the Typo Eradication Advancement League to further the just and noble cause of typo-slaying, in the hope that TEAL's mission can be as a fat taper of inspiration in a dim and murky world.

Benjamin Herson was born in Norfolk, VA but grew up in Virginia Beach. Four heroic English teachers trained him in the arts of detail & word choice, poetic diction, careful syntax craftsmanship, and documental analysis. Following his graduation gerund, Herson headed north for the ivy-covered halls of knowledge in Hangover, NH. There he crafted a thesis concerning the end of all things, developing a sense of his own role in the eschatological battle between grammatical right and wrong. Subject-verb disagreement is his sworn enemy, though it's those slippery little homophones with whom he's currently engaged in battle. His special techniques and TEAL skills include being a navigator, typing 50+ words/minute, deploying an enhanced lexicon, fearless public speaking, sermonizing, radical Biblical exegeses, innovative eisegeses, fragile diction handling, and acting as a pacing specialist, hypercritical reader, and semicolon enthusiast. Herson is also known as Captain Squirrel. He has 713 Hit Points.

Josh Roberts has been a tireless defender of the virtues of correctness and justice all of his adult life, a good portion of his adolescent life, and even a few days here and there during prepubescence. He lives in New York City, historically a bastion of superheroes and never more so than during his residence, editing films and ordering people around on TV commercial production sets. In his scant spare time he enjoys cultivating seedlings in beer gardens and unleashing the pale flame of his judgment upon various establishments via Yelp. Roberts has nursed a fervid dream for years to correct typos in the languid clime of the West Coast, and now he is realizing that dream, to the incalculable benefit of the League.

Jane Connolly first realized that her rare and precious talent for typo-spotting could be used for the good of humanity when she saved her high school principal's life in the cafeteria. That worthy administrator had been about to consume the contents of a jar marked "POISSON," thinking it a special salmon puree, but Connolly knocked it from his grasp at the last possible instant, deducing that the extra S would lead to certain doom. In that moment, she vowed to devote her life to stamping out spelling errors wherever she found them. The safety of the world hangs on a fine gossamer thread, after all. When Connolly is not crusading for orthography, she applies her considerable aesthetic and technological prowess to web design, the science of the l33t. She makes her home in Allston, Massachusetts; South Berwick, Maine; and various corners, cubbies, and recesses in between.