Alana and Marko met when Marko was a prisoner and Alana was a guard. This ancient blood feud has dominated the galaxy. Marko is part of a horned race from Wreath, a moon that orbits Landfall, home to Alana’s race of winged folks. In “Saga,” Alana and Marko are pretty much the Romeo and Juliet of comics in the colorful sci-fi universe brought to life by writer Brian K. They prove that sometimes Thor’s hammer is the best way to deliver Cupid’s arrow. In the spirit of such colorful love, here are some of the best love stories currently happening in comics. Even if you’ve sworn off dating and would rather fall in a Sarlacc pit than love, a comic book romance can be hard to resist. Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s “Preacher” - soon to be an AMC series - featured perhaps the best comic book romance of all time, between avenging man of faith Jesse Custer and sharp-shooting Tulip O’Hare. Peter Parker has married Mary Jane, had that marriage wiped away by a deal with the devil, and seen his other love Gwen Stacy die at the hands of the Green Goblin. Superman and Lois Lane have had a will-they-or-won’t-they relationship for almost 80 years. Romance comics, as a genre, don’t take up much shelf space these days, but the worlds of superheroes, aliens, criminals and gun-toting raccoons feature plenty of love stories, and they always have. Why do you read comics? To see Batman beat up a clown, Galactus eat a planet or zombies eat everybody? Or to see superheroes fall in love with each other?
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