NOUGHTS AND CROSSES Part 2

Childhood friends Sephy and Callum are now high schoolers...

...and, as their feelings towards each other intensify, they discover that their family and friends are not (to say the least) happy about it...

Adapted from the prose novel by Malorie Blackman by Ian Edgerton and illustrated by John Aggs.

Next Week:

You thought your high school days were hell?
Callum and Sephy are experiencing that...times ten!

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NOUGHTS AND CROSSES Part 1

The story of star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet and their warring families has been told...and retold...for centuries...

...often updated to reflect the current audience!

This new version, currently available in prose, live theatrical performances, audiobooks, a 2-season TV mini-series, and a graphic novel adapting the first prose novel, is set in contemporary times, though not in the usual location, as you shall now see...

As you might have guessed, this is an alternate reality where, instead of European nations colonizing the rest of the world centuries earlier, African nations did the exploring and colonizing!

(The BBC, which has a TV mini-series based on the book, did an intro into the political/social situations of the world HERE.)

Adapted from the prose novel by Malorie Blackman by Ian Edgerton and illustrated by John Aggs, the graphic novel has been selling well on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Callum and Sephy are now going to the same school!

There's going to be fireworks...though maybe not the type you're hoping for!

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Laugh at Love FLIP! "For the Love of Mike"

Our final "Laugh at Love" entry was created for one of the many MAD comic book clones of the 1950s!

But, it was illustrated by an artist who was noted for his serious romance comic stories!

Writer Nat Barnett never wrote a romance comic tale.

His two-dozen or so comic book scripts ranged from humor (including this story from Harvey's Flip! #1 [1954]) to horror to war, but absolutely no love comics!
Artist Bob Powell was another matter, as anybody who has perused this blog can tell you!
Starting with "I Joined a Teen-Age Sex Club!" he's one of the biggest comic creatives featured here!
As a bonus for our finale of fun, here's the original art for this story, thanks to the ever-amazing Kraktactaka!

Next Week:

We're devoting all of March to one graphic novel of True Love based on a very popular (and controversial) prose series!

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Laugh at Love MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX "Love Me, Love My Clones!" / MY LOVE "Jilted!"

It's possible to interpret "symbolic" splash panels literally...

...as RE-writer Paul Di Fillipo does in this story...which is not originally by writer Jean Thomas, penciler Gene Colan, and inker Bill Everett as these credits list!

Before we proceed to the original tale, we'd like to point out that the art here is so iconically "romance comic", that a panel from page 3 was used for the cover of the trade paperback reprint Marvel Romance (2006)...

So, who did the art?

All will be revealed at the end...

For the record, the art is by penciler Don Heck and inker John Romita Sr!

The writer is unknown, but suspected to be Stan Lee!

I did a little research on-line at the Grand Comics Database (an amazing resource) and discovered...
1) There are a couple of dozen romance comics tales spread over several different publishers titled "Jilted" or "Jilted!" (Note the exclamation point!)
2) None of the stories with that title had credits for Jean Thomas. Gene Colan, or Bill Everett!
3) The Marvel Romance Redux reworking's credits list John Romita as penciler and Jim Mooney as inker...with question marks, and states..."Art is credited to Gene Colan, pencils, and Bill Everett, inks, but this is clearly in error."
Sloppy reference work on Marvel Romance Redux by the editor and/or assistant editor, eh?

Next Week:

Our Final Humorous Romance Story (for now) and We Guarantee That, Even Though It Is Funny...

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Marvel Romance Redux