We live in an odd media climate, and much like cinema, the comic medium is undeniably dominated by the male gaze. After she informs Sparky, the ineffectual dragon which guards her tower, that his role in life is to essentially be beheaded by a knight in shining armour, the two head off to rescue Adrienne’s other sisters. The problem is, Adrienne neither wants nor needs rescuing. The series follows Princess Adrienne, who, along with her five older sisters, was locked in a tower by her tyrant father on her sixteenth birthday, in the hope that some gallant knight will prove himself worthy of the throne by rescuing one of them. It’s also very, very funny – as was the FCD offering when read following this trade of the first 4-issue miniseries. Action Lab’s charming, Eisner-nominated all-ages series is a much needed parody of the gender roles played in fairy tales and high fantasy fiction. I first encountered Princeless a few weeks ago during Free Comic Day, and gave up reading the brief promo a few pages in. Comedy in comics is not so much a difficult thing to execute as it is to establish we need to know a character’s quirks before we find them funny.
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