![]() Escaping from the tower where she is being held prisoner with the aid of the dragon that was guarding her, and donning armor left over from the dead previous suitors, Adrienne sets out to rescue her sisters from the prisons they are being held in. She befriends her dragon, tells her what her role in the tableau is, and that she is done being a Damsel in Distress. Finding herself in the tower, Adrienne decides that she is not sitting still for this. ![]() Her parents, however, overrule her and uphold tradition. Adrienne swears she will never be one of those pitiful princesses stuck in a tower to wait for some guy to "deserve" being her husband by slaying a dragon. ![]() She especially hates that the princesses are all helpless and can't help themselves. Set in a relatively standard fairy tale setting, the series stars Adrienne, a young black princess who has, since childhood, thought that the tradition of sticking princesses in towers to be rescued is stupid. ![]() Princeless is an Eisner award-nominated comic book series written by Jeremy Whitley and drawn by Mia Goodwin. "Don't let the dragon hit you on the way out." ![]()
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