Love Fights, Vol. 2

Love Fights #2

by Andi Watson

The scandal surrounding the Flamer's alleged love child has left Jack out in the cold romantically. Nora's journalistic ambition has nearly cost him his job, but he's not sure that any of that matters when his heart is in such dire straits. For her part, Nora seems to have picked up and moved on, working with the Fader to get to the bottom of the superhero sex scandal she broke -- and which may very well be a fake. Little does she know that Jack's cat, the furball also known as the Future Feline, is dogging her, suspicious of the girl's true motives. It's a complicated world when flying crimefighters patrol your skies...but an old romantic like Andi Watson is ready to tackle these super affairs of the heart with the usual wry wit and skillful brush strucks that earned him an Eisner nomination.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 5, 2004

About the author

Andrew "Andi" Watson (born 1969) is a British cartoonist and illustrator best known for the graphic novels Breakfast After Noon, Slow News Day and his series Love Fights, published by Oni Press and Slave Labor Graphics.

Watson has also worked for more mainstream American comic publishers with some work at DC Comics, a twelve-issue limited series at Marvel Comics, with the majority at Dark Horse Comics, moving recently to Image Comics.

Reviews

[HeavyReader · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ho Hum...

I picked this book up the other day at work when I needed something to read on my break. It was only after I started reading this one that I realized that I had read the first one some time ago.

Neither this one nor the original was very exciting.

Ho Hum...

[Jen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this 2nd volume of Love Fights quite a bit better than the 1st. It seemed like the story actually went somewhere, finally - the 1st volume was all build-up, and the 2nd volume is where things started to happen! In essence, it's a sort of a revisionist super-hero tale, in the same vein as Watchmen but a lot more light-hearted (and cute). Two normal humans are the focus, and the story revolves around them as they try to help a superhero clear his name when rumors start flying about an illegitimate child. It's fun and cute, and definitely worth a read.

[Matt Mazenauer · Rating 3 out of 5]

There is no prelude or context in this to help you remember the first volume. This goes much deeper into the story introduced in the first book, which tends to exacerbate the problems found in the first volume as well. The art style is a wash, both interesting to look at and simultaneously limiting and difficult to follow at times. The characters are put through interesting situations, but I really don't care about them, nor their trials and tribulations. Ultimately, nothing is more frustrating that a good premise underused.

[Sunil · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really dug it! The second volume moves the Flamer story to the forefront and takes advantage of the book's conceit that comic books are fictional retellings of actual superhero exploits. And there are some neat plot twists! I don't think much of the art, honestly, but it's a cute story for comic book fans.

[David Levine]

Great Read. Check out my blog for more details including spoilers: http://davetalkscomicsnotes.blogspot....