Home Comics Illustrations Blog Contact Me Comics > By the Wayside: Story  |  Characters Updates every Thursday on Girlamatic.com. Welcome to By the Wayside! Adele Davies has always been sure of two things in life: that she doesn't need to be told what to do, and that she can handle anything. She's wrong on both counts. Born into a family of exorcists, Adele has never been able to meet anyone's expectations. She has spent most of her young adulthood in and out of trouble with Triune, the company her family works for. After the company forbids her to perform exorcisms, Adele takes on an under-the-table job. When things spiral out of her control, resulting in the destruction of the client's house, she goes on the run with her assistant, Maddie, and blackmails Liz, a fellow mage, into hiding them out. The first story arc introduces Adele and Maddie and covers the circumstances of their first meeting. Book II picks up 6 months after the events of Book I and introduces Liz. As a long-time comics fan, I couldn't help but notice that in many comics, female characters were often too perfect, or flawed in "cute" ways. They were always armed with a witty comeback and the perfect outfit. There seemed to me to be a dearth of female characters who stumble, can never think of the right thing to say, and hurt their friends in a moment of selfishness. I feel strongly that it is important to create girl friendly comics that show girls and young women who are far from perfect, and who fight against these imperfections, sometimes rising above them and sometimes not. Home Comics Illustrations Blog Contact Me copyright © All copy and images are the sole property of Leigh Dragoon. All rights are reserved. No unauthorized reproduction of any kind allowed. Ever. Use of the copy or images contained herein requires the explicit permission of Leigh Dragoon.