Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and to celebrate DC Comics has released a new anthology, Love is a Battlefield, to highlight some of the multivarious relationships sprinkled throughout the DC Universe. For good and for ill, it manages to capture how relationships are often utilized in comics. If a writer understands two characters and their motivations, a relationship can give readers the most heartfelt moments in an entire creator’s run. But at the very same time, a relationship storyline can lead to some of the most awkward, head-scratching, bang-your-head-against-a-wall-in-frustration blunders when executed poorly. Don’t worry, nothing in here gets that bad, but there are some weird moments that reminded me of what occurs when a writer profoundly misunderstands a character and then tries to make them fall in love.