There’s a certain attraction that “bad boy/bad girl” characters have over their more well-behaved brethren. Perhaps part of this lies with the more visible complexities that these extroverts show; quieter, more introspective characters often has their complexities hidden inside. Considering that webcomics are a visual medium, it becomes more difficult to convey visible emotion and thought processes without the comic becoming a morass of thought balloons and inaction. The “bad boy/bad girl” often has very visible reasons for his or her behavior which becomes easier to script into a story and keeps the pace flowing even as motivations and back story leak into reader awareness.

Blue Deiter filled the role of “bad girl” for Namir Deiter quite nicely, with Blue playing the role of antagonist and foil for Tipper on more than one occasion, as well as the driving force behind other storylines with the Namir household. More interesting were the glimpses we had of Blue’s own past, which included Blue running away from home (from a neglectful mother who used her primarily to get child support money from several men) to find her older sister, Roxanne. Fortunately, she succeeded, and Roxanne in turn took Blue in and tried her best to raise her younger sister.

The more I read about Blue, the more I realized she was very much her mother’s daughter. Much like her mother, she dated (and slept with) multiple men and drank entirely too much. Indeed, I’ve wondered at times if Blue might be alcoholic, which would be an ironic twist seeing she’s a bartender. Recently, however, we’ve seen Blue trying to change who she is after a run-in with a young man (Isaac) who seemed oddly repulsed by her flirtations. In learning of Isaac’s story, we’ve in turn learned more of Blue’s childhood… and of what events may very well have inspired our young hellion to run away when she was only