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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 13 February 2012 00:00

Taking a look back at the first year of Lovefool.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 06 February 2012 00:00

Lovefool looks at a very different kind of love story, the Riverdale-gone-wrong noir murder story Criminal: The Last of the Innocent.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 30 January 2012 00:00

Pining for St. Louis, Lovefool revisits her old hometown in the pages of Tim Fish’s U. City Loop romance, Strugglers.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 16 January 2012 20:10

A pair of less than stellar shopping trips in Omaha have our Lovefool pining for the warm embrace of St. Louis' finest comic shops.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 09 January 2012 21:31

Lovefool sez if you’re gonna be crazy, you’ve gotta own that craziness, just like the kissin’ cousins of Ken Saito’s The Name of the Flower.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 02 January 2012 16:19

Lovefool rings in the New Year with some resolutions for how to make her column really shine.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 26 December 2011 17:56

Lovefool lists some life lessons learned from the pages of Naoko Takeuchi's Sailor Moon as part of this month's Manga Moveable Feast.

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Written by Erin Jameson Tuesday, 20 December 2011 07:03

An internet meme inspires Lovefool to take a look at a more sophisticated romance in the pages of Mike Carey's Lucifer.

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Written by Erin Jameson Tuesday, 13 December 2011 07:15

Love is often borne of bad decisions, as Lovefool finds within the the pages of Yoko Kamio's classist shojo "romance" Hana Yori Dango, a.k.a. Boys Over Flowers.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 05 December 2011 22:24

Lovefool wraps up a twee day of hall decking by checking in with some of her favorite Christmas comics.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 28 November 2011 22:17

This week, Lovefool tackles a universal romance, one as concerned with gunfights and intrigue as it is with its characters innermost feelings: Terry Moore's Strangers in Paradise.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 21 November 2011 21:46

Our Lovefool pits the rather forceful Harlequin romance An Arranged Marriage against the yaoi workplace romance Entangled Circumstances in a no-holds-barred Romance Roundup.

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Written by Erin Jameson Tuesday, 15 November 2011 07:49

Lovefool counts down her favorite comic characters who take aloofness to all new heights.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 31 October 2011 21:06

Lovefool takes a break from romance comics to take part in her annual viewing a movie that's "like a comic book gone supernova": The Nightmare Before Christmas.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 24 October 2011 17:50

Lovefool rocks a mixtape of music, magic and heartbreak courtesy of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's Phonogram.

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Written by Erin Jameson Sunday, 16 October 2011 19:04

In a special Manga Moveable Feast edition, Lovefool discusses Ken Akamatsu's Love Hina and the dangers of creepers and communal baths.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 10 October 2011 00:00

She's some kind of angel, if you know what I mean, she's Evangeline, the basis for one of Matthew Sweet's finest songs and, with Sweet hitting the Duck Room this Saturday, the basis of this week's Lovefool, too.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 03 October 2011 20:22

Lovefool has talked a lot about movies based on comics, but this week she takes a look at her DVD shelves and ponders Clueless and other movies that would make great comics.

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Written by Erin Jameson Tuesday, 27 September 2011 15:12

A smattering of fun links plus Lovefool's own take on that totally icky final sequence to Catwoman #1 in this collection of bite-sized thoughts on the state of comics romance.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 19 September 2011 00:00

After "skimming the dirty parts" a few weeks back, your Lovefool dives into a heaping helping of yaoi titles that concentrate more on relationships and less on the icky stuff.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 12 September 2011 00:00

Lovefool digs up Marvel Romance Redux, a jokey 2007 rewrite of classic pre-Silver Age romance comics that's sorely lacking in both jokes and romance.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 05 September 2011 19:42

Labor Day brings an end to Lovefool’s “Superhero Summer,” but Marvel’s merry mutants made certain to wrap things up on a bittersweet note.