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Offline NoeticHatter

Romance Comics - what's being made today?
« on: December 12, 2011, 03:39:54 PM »
Romance, Soap Opera, Love Stories - what's out there these days?

It could be played seriously like Strangers in Paradise or silly-fun like Love & Capes. What do you suggest? 

Also, does anyone collect old-school romance books, the kind of thing that showed up in the MARVEL ROMANCE collection?
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Re: Romance Comics - what's being made today?
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2011, 05:35:59 PM »
http://www.digitalcomicmuseum.com/

This site has a bunch of old romance comics online.

If you can get it, I'd recommend Marvel Divas, which came out a couple of years ago.  Essentially, Sex and the City with superheroines. 

http://sequentialcrush.blogspot.com/

And if you don't already know about it, here's a blog discussing romance comics.
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Offline Biollante

Re: Romance Comics - what's being made today?
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2011, 06:47:23 PM »
My guess?  Probably nothing.  It's a shame though.  But usually the people in charge are against giving anything "girly" a chance.  This has actually gotten worse in recent years I think where the business types in charge of everything have demanded everything be gender neutral (in other words skewed towards boys with some token female element), so a lot of stuff that skews towards a female audience in squeezed out entirely.

I did a thread about this before, but personally I'd just like to see a comic that did new romance tales every issue.  Would be something really fun to read.  Also good because the soap opera nature of long running love stories can get quite annoying.  I like to see my happy and bad endings once in a while.  lol
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Offline NoeticHatter

Re: Romance Comics - what's being made today?
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2011, 07:31:56 PM »
Quote from: jdh417 on December 12, 2011, 05:35:59 PM
http://www.digitalcomicmuseum.com/

This site has a bunch of old romance comics online.

If you can get it, I'd recommend Marvel Divas, which came out a couple of years ago.  Essentially, Sex and the City with superheroines. 

http://sequentialcrush.blogspot.com/

And if you don't already know about it, here's a blog discussing romance comics.

Excellent. Thanks for the info! Supposedly, there'll be a Showcase Young Love phonebook in the spring. I hope it actually gets published.

And, Simon/Kirby Young Romance looking like it might finally get released in January: http://www.amazon.com/Young-Romance-Simon-Kirbys-Comics/dp/1606995022/ref=pd_luc_sbs_02_01_t_lh



Quote from: Ghidra on December 12, 2011, 06:47:23 PM
My guess?  Probably nothing.  It's a shame though.  But usually the people in charge are against giving anything "girly" a chance.  This has actually gotten worse in recent years I think where the business types in charge of everything have demanded everything be gender neutral (in other words skewed towards boys with some token female element), so a lot of stuff that skews towards a female audience in squeezed out entirely.

I did a thread about this before, but personally I'd just like to see a comic that did new romance tales every issue.  Would be something really fun to read.  Also good because the soap opera nature of long running love stories can get quite annoying.  I like to see my happy and bad endings once in a while.  lol


Anthology would be good. That's certainly what the old romance comics did. I am not a teen or 20's girl -- or female at all  :uglystupid2: - so I am definitely not the target market. But I have read a million superhero comics, and I wouldn't mind reading something fresh in the rom-com or dramatic direction. Maybe it's time to take the Manga plunge. And/or look into graphic novels.
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Offline Biollante

Re: Romance Comics - what's being made today?
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2011, 08:15:29 PM »
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Anthology would be good. That's certainly what the old romance comics did. I am not a teen or 20's girl -- or female at all  :uglystupid2: - so I am definitely not the target market. But I have read a million superhero comics, and I wouldn't mind reading something fresh in the rom-com or dramatic direction. Maybe it's time to take the Manga plunge. And/or look into graphic novels.

Honestly, i don't believe in having target markets really (or at least enforcing them that much), but definitely something like romance will skew to a more female audience.  Things that have crossover appeal are great though, but that should come naturally I think.

There is a lot of romance in shoujo manga, and you can likely find a truck load of that in Barnes and Noble.  It doesn't really appeal to me much I think.  Some of the tropes are a bit annoying, and some of them are probably a bit restrained due to editorial policies of the magazines they appear in in Japan.  I love magical girl shoujo though.  lol  There's also a lot of yaoi romance you can buy now, but I think most of it is technically josei (manga aimed older teen girls and women).

It's kind of weird though how a few years ago shoujo manga made so much money from girls when the US comic market seemed stagnant in that regard.  But this goes back to the mindset of US business people I mentioned earlier.  So of course something foreign is going to come in and eat their lunch.  All the popular cartoons for girls seem foreign now too.  lol
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Offline chance72

Re: Romance Comics - what's being made today?
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2011, 09:50:21 PM »
I think a lot of manga geared towards girls is great. But I think Love and Rockets is still the best "romance" comic being published today. Especially Jaime's stories.
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Offline Biollante

Re: Romance Comics - what's being made today?
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2011, 05:18:19 AM »
I really want to see an anthology series, because it will force the writers to be creative I think.  Nowadays, the romance I see in a lot of stuff seems to be:

Boy and girl are best friends and get along in every way.  They secretly have a crush on each other.  *insert long drawn out romantic tension that results in them getting together.*

Pretty much the disneyfication of romance, which is kind of sickening.  It's routine now.  It's not something deep or exciting.

I want to see more risk taking for once.  You know people in love with each other that are not supposed to be?  Maybe some romance that is taboo in society but shouldn't be like couples with age gaps.

Not really an exploration for more than one kind of love out there in most stuff, and it's really boring.  I want to see the stories of many different couples in completely different circumstances.
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Offline Jabroniville

Re: Romance Comics - what's being made today?
« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2011, 05:21:49 AM »
Probably the best Romance Comic I've ever read/seen was "Maison Ikkoku". It's by Rumiko Takahashi (the manga, and it got a complete anime series, which is where I've seen most of it), who also did "Ranma 1/2" and "Innu Yasha", and she's pretty much a manga Goddess for a reason. This is really her only well-known non-young-men-targetted work, and it's the most romantic thing I think I've ever seen. It's the story of a semi-useless "nice guy" college student named Godai who competes for the heart of his attractive Apartment Manager, Kyoko. Problem being: she's a widow, unwilling to get close to many people, and she hasn't let go of her late husband yet. And she's kind of a more realistic version of Takahashi's usually "Cranky women" archetypes. Oh, and Godai's competing with a super-handsome rich guy.

I love it because while it uses some stereotypes and cliches, it subverts them at the same time. Godai's a "Nice Guy", but it's actually very honest about what that personality type is like (perhaps because it's a woman writing it)- he's nice, but generous to a fault (ie. people take advantage of him), he's wimpy, unwilling to create conflict or state his mind, and really kind of mediocre overall. The more jerk-y rival guy is successful, but not evil to the point where you always want him to fail.

The best line:
"The woman I love burns with jealousy, leaps to conclusions, cries, and turns to ice.
But when she laughs, the world is mine."

*girly singsong voice* RRRRROOOMANTIIIIIIIICCCCC!!!
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