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1. • CommentAuthorLamont Cranston
   • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2010

    
   It's the Day of Love! When everything and everyone is just peachy for the whole day!
   Love doesn't just saturate the real world,oh no, sometimes it leaks into comics and stains their pages with the very juice of Romance.
   
   Here's Five Timeless Romances In Comics:
   (Or the first five that I remembered)
   
   1) Matt Murdock and Karen Page in Daredevil: Born Again by Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli (Marvel Comics)
   Despite leaving Matt Murdock and then becoming a skin flick stalwart and living drug hoover Karen still remembers him fondly. Unfortunately despite the haze of steaming flesh and gnawing need she inhabits she still remembers Matt is the acrobatic, sight deprived but senses enhanced crime fighter Daredevil. This really is unfortunate as she gives the game away for a noseful. The name climbs the ladder of scum until it reaches the ears of the big boned Wilson Fisk. Hi-jinks ensue. After his life has been dismantled and he has been forced into the hellishness of his own mind gone wrong Matt Murdock cradles Karen in some blazing rubble. Around them a man with an American Flag tattooed on his face dismantles Hell's Kitchen and the people therein. The lovers speak what could be their last words to each other:
   Karen: Matt, am I dying?
   Matt: No, No, Honey.
   Matt (Contd):Everything important in you is safe.
   Love!
   
   2) Crazy Jane and Robotman in Doom Patrol by Grant Morrison and various artists TPBS (DC/Vertigo Comics)
   She found refuge from child abuse by creating so many different personalities she can only keep track of them by creating a kind of mental London Underground! He was a racing car driver whose body was destroyed in a fiery crash and his brain now resides in a robot body! What couple could be more perfect! Chances of being approved to adopt? Slim.
   
   3) Marv and Goldie in Sin City by Frank Miller (Dark Horse Comics).
   "She smells like angels ought to smell," Marv tells us. This, together with the fact that she's the only lady who let Marv begin the beguine, crystallises in Marv's interesting mind into love. It's true Marv has it easy in some ways, Goldie is dead after all, so there's no arguing about not leaving shoes in the hall, whether you did just actually roll your eyes or why you don't make more of an effort with her parents. And yet, since Marv feels it incumbent upon himself to find her killer and this leads him into a violent vortex of grand guignol incurring upon himself damage of a quite apocalyptic nature, perhaps in some ways he has chosen a harder course. Either way, I think we can agree that sometimes Love means feeding a still living cannibalistic serial killer to a wild wolverine.
   
   4) Lana Lang and Superman. Superman: Whatever Happened To The Man of Tomorrow by Alan Moore & Curt Swan et al.(DC Comics)
   Lois Lane? Lois got the man but Lana took the bullet. Lana flew to her death and she flew to it for the sake of the man she loved. The man she knew she could never have but loved no less. "We'll show 'em. Nobody loved him better than us!. Nobody" she said, and she showed 'em allright. I hope Lois Lane has trouble sleeping at night!
   
   5) Jesse Custer and Cassidy in Preacher TPBs Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon. (DC/Vertigo Comics)
   These two should have just got a room; a lot of lives would have been saved.
   
   Anyone else feeling Romantic? Hubba hubba!
2. • CommentAuthorLee
   • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2010

    
   That's a great list, Lamont. Though I feel that the endless live that Emma Frost has for herself should've been on there, along with Peter Parker's peerless love for Aunt May.
3. • CommentAuthorLamont Cranston
   • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2010

    
   Cheers, Lee. I was sorely tempted but in the end I thought I'd stay away from Spider-Man jokes. I mean, you know how it upsets a certain independent retailer when anyone brings up the whole (shhhhh!) marriage thing. It's a good job he won't be able to read this or he'll just get all blotchy and have to breathe into a paper bag for ten minutes again. No one wants that on the Day of Lurve. I think you were right to focus on the pure love of an orphan for his aunt/guardian. Oh, you actually, wait, ewwwwwwwww, Lee!
4. • CommentAuthorLee
   • CommentTimeFeb 14th 2010

    
   I've no recollection whatsoever of whatever you are hinting at, Lamont. The pure and sincere affection one would hold for an aged relative is a lovely thing, though it would, of course, not compare to the hot-blooded love for one's wife and soul-mate. If one had one. Which, of course, Peter doesn't. Though, if he did, he'd probably not trade such an important relationship for another few months with his permanantly frail old aunt, as that would be illogical and insane...