Caliber Presents: Romantic Tales

(Caliber, 1995)
©1995 Jason Thompson

Think of it as the guy’s version of Young Romance. This one-shot from Caliber’s Jason Thompson is a romance comic that tells it like it really is. The lead story, “Princess Leah,” stars Jason as a Very Insecure Young Man who works in a comic shop and forms an amazing crush on a beautiful young woman who stops in periodically to buy Star Wars comics.

What follows is classic teen angst—the real kind—not the kind that super-heroes are always going through. Jason gives Beautiful Girl gifts. Jason lures her over to his place (with friends, of course) to watch the boxed set trilogy of Star Wars. Jason writes Beautiful Girl a tortured letter confessing his feelings…Beautiful Girl, of course, very nicely shoots Jason down.

It’s wonderful (if depressingly real) stuff which shows true romance is not dead in the 1990s.

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Jason Thompson