Who’s Your Valentine? Black Nerd Problems Staff’s Favorite Couples In The Nerd World

It’s our favorite completely made up day of the year, Valentine’s Day! To celebrate, we’re letting you know some of our favorite couples or pairings in all of nerdom. Don’t just us on our one true pairings. Not everyone’s ship comes in… Alana and Marko (Saga) If ever there were two poster children for contemporary nerd love, it would have to be Alana and Marko, the central characters in Brian K. Vaughan’s unconventional space epic, Saga. Born of different races, they met on the business ends of a centuries-old war between their respective peoples. Alana, a hard case apparently from the get-go and Marko, an unexpectedly soulful product of militant parents, even madly in love with one another, the only thing they seem to agree on is wanting what’s best for their infant daughter Hazel. Constantly on the run from bounty hunters, ex lovers and members of their own factions who see Hazel as heresy, they seem to always find a way to stand by one another when any other couple would have killed each other (if you’ve ever watched The Amazing Race, you know I’m right). The kicker is that according to Hazel (the grown up, unseen narrator), it’s not even a guarantee that these two misfits will end up together happily ever after at the end of this tale and yet I’m more invested in these two than any of my friends’ real life ratchet relationships. -Oz

Number Six and Dr. Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica) Ok, so things are a bit rocky at first, considering that they conspired (Gaius unwi…