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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 07 May 2012 00:00

Lovefool checks in with her review of The Avengers and is happy to report that--spoiler alert!--the flick is not entirely lacking the mushy stuff.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 30 April 2012 21:12

After a painful weekend sans internet (the horror!), Lovefool catches up with a few bite-sized morsels on her favorite webcomics, more Avengers excitement, and how to make your wedding awesome, comic book-style.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 23 April 2012 00:00

First he married Veronica, then he married Betty. Now, America's eternal teenager enters all new territory as Archie becomes Archina in Archie #636 and words can't even begin to describe how stoked your Lovefool is.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 16 April 2012 20:47

Lovefool is super-stoked for the upcoming film verison of The Avengers, but she has one question for director Joss Whedon: where's the love?

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 09 April 2012 20:28

Lovefool wonders: can't all us nerds just get along?

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 02 April 2012 21:19

Why is Lovefool jealous of all of you lucky people who are headed to this year's Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo? Let her count the ways.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 26 March 2012 00:00

A "fairy doctor" who has lived life as an outcast finally discovers the joys of being herself in The Earl and the Fairy.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 19 March 2012 00:00

It’s a royal rumble as the Harlequin manga bodice-ripper Princess of Convenience takes on a shojo manga on the "princesses" of an all-boys high school (Mikiyo Tsuda's Princess Princess) in the latest Romance Roundup.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 12 March 2012 00:00

Lovefool finds the tales of teenage wasteland in Brad Abraham's Mixtape "so eerily similar to actual teenagers that it's frightening."

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 05 March 2012 00:00

It's a wild wedding wuxtravaganza as a yaoi manga about a wedding planner and his beau takes on a wedding in white, Harlequin style, in this latest Romance Roundup.

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Written by Erin Jameson Monday, 27 February 2012 00:00

Dann Lundie's Microgirl, a snippet of a story starring a shrinking superheroine and a stray soul, leaves our Lovefool pining for Spring.

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Written by Terri Gudowicz Green Monday, 20 February 2012 22:03

Lovefool is on vacation this week, so Mrs. JG,FE fills in by offering up some centuries-old Japanese sequential art that must be seen to be believed.

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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.