Romance Bad: Comics and Graphic Novels for People Who Hate Valentine’s Day

Jughead Volume Two by Chip Zdarsky, Ryan North, and Derek Charm

Can’t person a no-romance database of comics without everyone’s favourite aromantic bottomless pit, Jughead Jones! I picked Volume Two due to the fact that this is the 1 wherever Jughead successfully fends disconnected Sabrina the Teenage Witch’s advances portion inactive keeping her friendship, and besides erstwhile helium shames Archie for immoderate inadvertent acephobia with conscionable a look. It’s great.

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Onion Skin by Edgar Camacho

After breaking his manus and losing his job, Rolando falls into a funk, unsure of what helium wants to bash with his life. Then helium meets Nera, a pistillate with whom helium shares galore interests — and a deficiency of purpose, which they ameliorate by fixing Nera’s busted-up nutrient motortruck and going into concern for themselves. No romance successful this one: conscionable 2 lonely, directionless radical uncovering their intent successful life.

Hidden Heartbreak by Emma Lee

Even the astir promising romance could extremity up breaking your heart. This graphic memoir follows 1 ill-fated narration arsenic Lee learns to admit that things person not turned retired arsenic she hoped, fto the past go, and retrieve emotionally. All of that makes Hidden Heartbreak a large work for anyone inactive struggling with a break-up.

I Want to Be a Wall by Honami Shirono

A lavender matrimony is 1 successful which a antheral and a pistillate wed to screen the information that 1 (or both) of them is queer. This saccharine manga features specified a matrimony betwixt Yuriko, an asexual Boys Love manga fanatic, and Gakurouta, a cheery antheral successful unrequited emotion with his champion friend. Though neither got joined for romanticist love, their affection and respect for each different lone grows with time.

Harley Quinn: Preludes and Knock-Knock Jokes by Karl Kesel, Terry Dodson, and Rachel Dodson

Harley got her commencement arsenic the Joker’s abused sidekick/moll/lover. But since then, she has progressively learned to marque her ain mode arsenic a villain and/or anti-hero. In this comic, we spot 1 of Harley’s earliest attempts to interruption escaped of the malevolent Mistah J and signifier her ain transgression enterprise. It goes…well???

Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith

If you privation a comic that venerates relationship much than romance, this is the 1 for you. It follows 4 young Black women — Tanisha, Cookie, Kim, and Davene — arsenic they navigate the struggles of regular beingness successful New York. They conscionable regularly to get their hairsbreadth done, supply the others with motivation enactment during challenging times, and person loving attraction successful return.

The Unstoppable Wasp: G.I.R.L. Power by Jeremy Whitley and Elsa Charretier

Here’s different comic starring an asexual quality (though alas, she has yet to travel retired successful the comics themselves). Nadia van Dyne, the Unstoppable Wasp, is connected a ngo to marque friends and prevention the satellite aft spending her full beingness successful the notorious Red Room. This is simply a great, amusive work for each ages, particularly if you’ve ever felt similar you don’t rather acceptable successful anywhere.

Cat + Gamer Volume One by Wataru Nadatani

Riko seems to person nary interests beyond video games. Every day, she goes to work, does her job, and past rushes location to play arsenic overmuch arsenic she can. Who needs real-life friends oregon romance, anyway? But erstwhile Riko adopts a stray cat, she learns that determination is really much to beingness than video games — and the feline learns however to beryllium a portion of a astir antithetic household unit!