Alex Heberling

I worked a couple of cashier shifts at Tarjay last week, and noticed all the boxes of valentines for kids, which made me a little nostalgic for the days when you could give out little cards with corny phrases and Power Rangers on them, and be all set for V Day.  I know I had all sorts of various valentines sets throughout my elementary school years, but the only one that comes to mind is the Lisa Frank set I probably had in 2nd or 3rd grade.

Oh, and I gave my friends Lord of the Rings valentines when I was a senior in high school, just for laughs.

So I got the idea to make some Garanos valentines.  I couldn’t think of very many plot-relevant corny phrases, so I just have these three.

The 4th valentine concept, which I didn’t get to, was Gharsena running away from a fireball with the caption “Hope your Valentine’s Day is a BLAST!”  Hurr hurr.

It was a good excuse to draw both Maryoku and Geilen’s red lacy outfit again.  I’m also in love with the expressions in the second valentine. XD  I didn’t go too crazy with shading on these, since they were just for fun, but I’m learning lately that I generally don’t need to go too crazy with the shading in regular comics anyway.