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After the Golden Age
Romance comics did not disappear with the end of the Golden Age. The Golden Age material has been made available in a number of reprint projects, whether periodical comics like Charleton's Soap Opera Romance of the late 1970s or in book collections such as Eclipse's Real Love (1988), while the art of those older romance comics has also been used for comedic purposes, matched with new dialog in Last Kiss (2001-2003) and Marvel Romance Redux (2007). New short story efforts have occasionally been seen in periodical form (1987-1988's Renegade Romance), book form (2006's Project: Romantic), or on the web (such as Arrow's "My Romance Stories" effort ). As US comics in general have evolved to telling longer stories, tales of romance have also found homes in these longer forms, whether as self-contained graphic novels such as the Dark Horse manga-style adaptations of Harlequin novels, or in long-running serials whether fiction (Strangers in Paradise, viewed "a non-traditional romance comic" and "almost a pure romance comic, but a Romance Comic For The 90's" ) or non-fiotion (True Story, Swear to God).