30 Days of Winter: Day 8 - ROMANCE *Master Post*

[greenmask]

Helloooo scans_daily, and welcome to Day 8 of our 30 Days of Winter series. Today we're experiencing Rrrrrromance, dahlings.

In 1966, my mother had a boyfriend. But some time later.. my mother no longer had this boyfriend. The boyfriend.. was now my uncle's.

Drama! Intrigue! Family history.


Alas - I am not talking about a human boyfriend. My lack of capitalisation, in fact, makes me a liar. We're speaking of The Boyfriend Book annual, 1966.

Which featured a lot of things. Quizzes? Yes!



HUNKS? Why, of course!



Hot. Actually, the ability to roast meat would be a dealbreaker/maker for me.

Articles about the hip issues of the day? Well, obviously.



It's true you know. F'rex, George was very talented at wearing great trousers.

But most importantly, it also had comics.

Like this one - "One Life Between Two". Great title.

As with what sometimes seems like all romance comics, it's about a madwoman who wants to control everything, and a horrible man who treats her like a worm. The dude wants to go in some cave for some reason.



The girl really doesn't want him to. She has a lot of suggestions about how to stop him.. But when sis joins in? Oh, no, suddenly it's going too far!



Stroppy.

She tries to get his pal Colin in on the dissuasion, but.. it doesn't really work. Friends are no good! This panel seems very funny to me.



Ray is just as fickle as his chick, though, once he figures out that NO-ONE wants him to go into the cave.



Poor Colin, indeed!



THEY ARE SO IN LOVE.



This panel lets us know that Ray is doing his cave exploring at night, like all sensible spelunkers.



When loving lovers love..



No really, Ray, really, it's a bat, Ray, it's really a bat! Ray!

I think that her flailing sets off an avalanche, which they escape. Hurray! The end! Romance!



Sweet as anything.

Let's try another!



Classic: Girl hits boy. What does girl do?

She makes up a crazy lie! Of course!!









Yes, for some strange reason.

They go and visit her fiancee, who isn't pleased to meet her new fake boyfriend. I don't know why, he must just be a jerk. But anyway, Marion isn't pleased with his reaction, which leads to her use of this great British version of "step off" or "go away and die":



Way harsh, Marion!

But not only that. She decides not to marry stupid Robert, which is a big romantic tragedy..



She's a role model.

They go to her brother's place, who is more welcoming than Robert. But he thinks Dreamboy is putting on his amnesia!



It's nice to see a brother accepting his sister's "intimate personal life" like that, huh? No judgement.

BUT WAIT

Robert's back, you guys!



I'll miss him.



Aaaand we're done.



Aren't they just the sweetest? Three cheers for manly pride!

And a final quiz to cheer you up.





So, dearhearts.. what's your favorite romance (or romantic) comic? Make us all melt! And tell us your quiz results in the comments.

Stay tuned for tomorrow's theme: Girrrrrrl comics.

And our full 30 Days of Winter calendar is here; don't get caught short!

Comments

[crinos]

And guess who just finished watching Audition?

*Dededededede*

[grazzt]

King Dedede?

[sinisterlink]

I giggled at the part in the first quiz where it says, "Do you like to be alone sometimes, but think foursomes are fun?" because I am in fact still twelve years old. Hee.

Love the pic of the guy with the roast. He looks like he has no idea what he's supposed to do. I hope he's putting the roast into the oven instead of taking it out because if he's taking it out then his fingers are probably already melted to the pan. Maybe that's why he's making that face. Also love the Beatle article referring to George and Ringo as "the other two". Poor guys.

As for the comics...yeah, I'm not really going to comment on what's wrong with them or I'd be here ALL DAY. My favorite wtf parts are probably the guy saying he'll murder them if they don't stop trying to get him to stop going to the cave and in the other comic where the guy that she ran into wants to go to the hospital and she tells him to stop being such a martyr. lol

[greenmask]

"Cooking a roast" is my new favourite photoshoot concept. And look at ALL THAT BOOZE on his windowsill! Perfect for a teen-girl magazine.

OH and I forgot - somewhere in this album, there's a story where someone talks about Elton John settling down with the right girl when he's ready.

Oh, the past! You weren't aware you were wrong.

[sinisterlink]

"And look at ALL THAT BOOZE on his windowsill! Perfect for a teen-girl magazine."

Well, there's an explanation for the look on his face right there. "What do you mean you don't use twenty bottles of booze to marinate the roast in, honey?"

[greenmask]

Oh, Georgie Fame. You scamp!

[cleome45]

[grin]

[ejne7]

Eeee, thrilled to see "give over" used in comics dialogue.
Much more so than to see "You forced yourself on me with a vengeance" as the rationale for a happy couple's union.

[sandoz_iscariot]

omg awwwww @ the "WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER TWO?" article. I love you, George and Ringo.

I really like the art in the comic. Very chic. And I'm a sucker for black and white art with selective dashes of color.

Favorite romance comics...Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, Scott Pilgrim (SP is totally a romance comic), Mars, selective bits of Ai Yazawa's works...

[greenmask]

Haha, the dashes of colour were added post-printing.. by my six-ish year old uncle. He was always the artistic one, I am told!

I guess Scott Pilgrim would be romance, actually. :O

[sandoz_iscariot]

Oops! Well it looks very nice! XD

[greenmask]

I will pass on the compliments! :D

[arilou_skiff]

As usual I have a lot of favourite romantic stories... It's just that none of them happens to be comics, or at least, my main attachment isn't to the comic-book version (like "Most romantic proposal ever" Planetes, or the anime version of RahXephon which manages to make it's central love story work despite the... Weirdness, of it)

Spider-Man loves Mary Jane, of course. And if it was my favourite *pairing* it would be much easier...

[greenmask]

If you tell us what they are, maybe some lurkers will realise they have romantic issues based around those pairings!

[greenmask]

Issues of comic books, I mean.. not personal issues.

[bluefall]

I'm sure we have those too!

[greenmask]

Yes, me too.

I am just not sure we want to see each other's, always.

My quiz results!

[greenmask]

No-one is sharing their results, so I shall set an example.

c
c
a
a
c
a SHOW ME YOUR ETCHINGS, FELLOW

So am I loose, or am I just right?

Just the right side of loose?

b
c
c
c
c
c

I am the average type of girl.

The average type of girl

:[

Re: My quiz results!

[whitesycamore]

Apparently I will go after anything in trousers and am probably an embarrassment (to who? Humanity in general?)

Eh. It's a fair cop.

And I do feel glad for having read the "please take me to the hospital (I think I may have organ damage)" story!

I USE THIS WORD IN A FRIENDLY MANNER

[greenmask]

A conviction for a crime we enjoy ain't no bad thing.

I hope some day soon you too meet a boy (or two) whose organs you can good and damage before you grope him like the tart you are!

I raise a glass of Georgie Fame's windowsill stash to all my fellow modern women.

[bliumchik]

Ooh, I DO so love a foursome!

[psychopathicus_rex]

OK, the 'Ray, it's a bat!' bit, both the original and your commentary, made me chuckle like a madman. Personally, if I were in her shoes, I'd be THRILLED. 'RAY, HOLY CRAP, IT'S A BAT! OH OH OH, LET ME GET MY CAMERA, THIS IS SO COOOOOOL!' Or, eh... words to that effect.
Err... do the parts of 'Metal Men' where Tina is wooing Doc Magnus count? 'Cause if so, those are my favorites. Otherwise, I can't really think of anything - romance comics are not really my thing.

[greenmask]

IT'S A BAT REX, REX IT'S A BAT

[psychopathicus_rex]

Well, I LIKE bats.

[greenmask]

Cave-in! Rocks fall!

Everyone dies.

[psychopathicus_rex]

WHAT?! But I'd only just leveled up! NO FAIR!

[bluefall]

My Evasion-having rogue/barbarian once took no damage despite being trapped in the bottom of the canyon during a 100d6 avalanche, as did the party monk. While the rest of the party was rolling new characters, we spent the better part of a week trying to figure out exactly what, in practical terms, the two of us actually did down there when the snow hit.

[psychopathicus_rex]

I'm guessing that would be classified as 'sheer luck'. That's certainly what I more or less ran on during my brief experience with D&D. Every time I played, I wound up being the butt-monkey for a more powerful character who treated me like crap and used me as a living danger detector. I got picked up and thrown into booby traps, I got lightning bolts directed at me while I was in the middle of a lake, I got strapped to the mast of a ship during a thunderstorm... If it weren't for sheer luck and good rolls of the dice, I wouldn't have lasted five minutes.

[cleome45]

Ya' know... Georgie Fame is STILL damn good-looking.

I always wanted to cast him as a super-villain, somewhere...

[greenmask]

Sauce! :3

The video you linked is getting me relaxed'n'ready for a job interview as well as informing me on swingin' men who can roast, so thank ya.

[cleome45]

[bows] I live to serve ya'.

Is this for a job that pays real money? I've always wanted one of those. :p

[greenmask]

Yes! Minimum wage, but the important part of that is "WAGE"!

(It went well! Yay!)

[spam-monster.livejournal.com]

Cable and Deadpool.

What?

[recognitions]

"It's a bat, Ray! Ray, it's a bat!"

"A bat...that's it! It's an omen! I shall become A BAT!"

[citygod]

I'm surprised that it took so long for someone to say that!
And the art in that last story is just great - do you have a credit?

[greenmask]

Unfortunately not - I don't know if it's a British thing or what, but none of my old anthologies have credits. It's a real bummer. There's a guy who does a lot of research on it, but I can't remember his name.. I'll look it up, if you like?

[citygod]

That was so frustrating about British comics, pre-2000AD: no credits. I have no idea who some of my favourite artists where and I when I started reading Marvel, I was immediately impressed by the extensive credits. (It was always fascinating to see the differences between John Buscema inked by Joe Sinnott and John Buscema inked by Tom Palmer!)
Would you mind looking the artists name up? I'd really appreciate it. Wonder does he have any other work here on Scans?
ps who is your icon?