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Love Fights #1
Love Fights, Vol. 1
It's hard enough for your average person to get a date with all the anxieties we have in our modern world. For Jack, it's even worse. Where he lives, superheroes are a common sight, flying through the air and showing off their outrageous muscles in their skintight outfits. In comparison, a regular guy must seem boring and puny. So when he meets Nora in the midst of two steroid-cases beating the tar out of each other, he can't help but be a little giddy that she has agreed to go out with him. Too bad it's not that simple. Nora works for Expose, the leading magazine for superpowered trends. Chasing a scoop is a little more important to her than getting scooped off her feet, leaving Jack in the dust once again. To make matters worse, his cat, Guthrie, has gone missing, and though the feline will be returned to him—he's not going to be the same cat Jack remembers.
168 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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About the author
Andi Watson
150 books92 followersAndrew "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.
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.
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March 25, 2025
A couple perfectly normal people have relationship drama except there's also superheroes making things more complicated. The first issue sold me on a little bit more of the regular person's POV in a world where the supers constantly wreck things, but it ended up having basically none of that going forward - just the relationship stuff. One of the supers is a dad but claims he couldn't be. The cat gets powers and becomes an enormous asshole. No idea what's about with either of those things, and the book tries to get a mystery about and failed.
In the former instance it's relying on something supernatural or comic-booky but gives the reader absolutely no context on what it could be and leaves us hanging with nothing but the mundane answer that apparently isn't right. It's like how Sherlock Holmes said: when you remove the impossible, what's left is the truth. But when you remove the impossible, in this case, what you're left with nothing!
And then in the latter case, the cat really is basically just a prick. There's not enough going for why he's doing what he's doing. He doesn't explain himself. He's annoying everybody. I don't like him.
And the relationship itself's the usual stuff with misunderstandings and arguments and I don't particularly like either of them.
Overall, not for me.
In the former instance it's relying on something supernatural or comic-booky but gives the reader absolutely no context on what it could be and leaves us hanging with nothing but the mundane answer that apparently isn't right. It's like how Sherlock Holmes said: when you remove the impossible, what's left is the truth. But when you remove the impossible, in this case, what you're left with nothing!
And then in the latter case, the cat really is basically just a prick. There's not enough going for why he's doing what he's doing. He doesn't explain himself. He's annoying everybody. I don't like him.
And the relationship itself's the usual stuff with misunderstandings and arguments and I don't particularly like either of them.
Overall, not for me.
February 6, 2020
The world this story takes place in is interesting, as it's cool to see how having superheroes exist would realistically affect non-super people. But the romance was super forced and I didn't like a single character, plus nothing felt resolved by the end of this. I'm not going to try to read the rest of the series.
March 30, 2020
Was bei Geisha nicht geklappt hat, hat Andi Watson bei „Love Fights“ auf 328 Seiten wunderbar hinbekommen. Die Geschwätzigkeit und Unstrukturiertheit aus Geisha ist geblieben. Wir ham‘ auch wieder Science-Fiction. Aber statt der Frage nach Kunst von Kunstmenschen, gibt es eine Romantic Comedy als Screwball-Komödie im Superhelden-Millieu. Hier passt die Tonalität zum Genre.
Es spielt in einer Welt, in der Superhelden zum Alltag gehören, inklusive ihrer medialen Vermarktung in TV, Film und Gossip-Magazinen. Superhelden-Comics sind in dieser Welt Dokumentationen wahrer Begebenheiten.
Jack ist Comic-Zeichner von „The Flamer“, einem zunehmend unhippen Superhelden. Bei einer Zufallsbegegnung verknallt er sich in Nora, Assistentin bei einem Gossip-Blatt. Nora wittert ihre Chance zum beruflichen Aufstieg, als sie an einem Scoop dran ist: der Flamer hat bei einem Seitensprung ein Kind mit Superheldenkräften gezeugt.
Damit ist ein roter Faden vorgeben, der quer durch den Comic Auslöser für eine Zahl von Intrigen und irrwitzigen Zwischenfällen und Beziehungskrisen sorgt, als wäre es eine Hollywood-Komödie von Billy Wilder – mit der gleichen Sogkraft habe ich den Comic verschlungen.
Ähnlich wie sich das Storyhandling gegenüber Geisha weiter entwickelt hat, wirken die Zeichnungen von Andi Watson in Love Fights noch mehr auf den Punkt gebracht. Der Strich noch reduzierter. Die Meisterschaft mit einem Minimum an Strichen die unterschiedlichsten Charaktere zu zeichnen, ist großartig. Es ist erstaunlich, wie wenig man braucht, um eine Figur mit Wiedererkennungswert auszustatten. Vor allem im zweiten Band hat sich Watson sowas von eingroovt in seine Figuren, dass seine Zeichnungen nur so vor Selbstsicherheit sprühen. Mimik und Gestik sind auf den Punkt.
Einer etwaigen Monotonie entkommt er durch den Einsatz von drei Grundfarben und unterschiedlichen Texturen bei den Strichen und Flächen.
Die beiden eBooks der "Love Fights"-Serie (von Andi Watson im Eigenvertrieb via Gumroad erhältlich) strotzen nur so Spielfreude. Watson hat Spaß am Sujet und seinen Protagonisten gehabt. Das merkt man den Zeichnungen und der Story an. Dabei ist eine Kreuzung entstanden, die einzigartig ist. Hat mir sehr viel Freude bereitet.
Es spielt in einer Welt, in der Superhelden zum Alltag gehören, inklusive ihrer medialen Vermarktung in TV, Film und Gossip-Magazinen. Superhelden-Comics sind in dieser Welt Dokumentationen wahrer Begebenheiten.
Jack ist Comic-Zeichner von „The Flamer“, einem zunehmend unhippen Superhelden. Bei einer Zufallsbegegnung verknallt er sich in Nora, Assistentin bei einem Gossip-Blatt. Nora wittert ihre Chance zum beruflichen Aufstieg, als sie an einem Scoop dran ist: der Flamer hat bei einem Seitensprung ein Kind mit Superheldenkräften gezeugt.
Damit ist ein roter Faden vorgeben, der quer durch den Comic Auslöser für eine Zahl von Intrigen und irrwitzigen Zwischenfällen und Beziehungskrisen sorgt, als wäre es eine Hollywood-Komödie von Billy Wilder – mit der gleichen Sogkraft habe ich den Comic verschlungen.
Ähnlich wie sich das Storyhandling gegenüber Geisha weiter entwickelt hat, wirken die Zeichnungen von Andi Watson in Love Fights noch mehr auf den Punkt gebracht. Der Strich noch reduzierter. Die Meisterschaft mit einem Minimum an Strichen die unterschiedlichsten Charaktere zu zeichnen, ist großartig. Es ist erstaunlich, wie wenig man braucht, um eine Figur mit Wiedererkennungswert auszustatten. Vor allem im zweiten Band hat sich Watson sowas von eingroovt in seine Figuren, dass seine Zeichnungen nur so vor Selbstsicherheit sprühen. Mimik und Gestik sind auf den Punkt.
Einer etwaigen Monotonie entkommt er durch den Einsatz von drei Grundfarben und unterschiedlichen Texturen bei den Strichen und Flächen.
Die beiden eBooks der "Love Fights"-Serie (von Andi Watson im Eigenvertrieb via Gumroad erhältlich) strotzen nur so Spielfreude. Watson hat Spaß am Sujet und seinen Protagonisten gehabt. Das merkt man den Zeichnungen und der Story an. Dabei ist eine Kreuzung entstanden, die einzigartig ist. Hat mir sehr viel Freude bereitet.
October 31, 2007
Well, this was a quick read, and I really enjoyed the artwork. The problem is that I'm not totally sure I enjoyed the story. Basically, the story takes place in a Watchmen-style world where superheroes are common and are celebrities, and a romance begins to blossom between a guy who draws comic books (about a superhero, sort of like publicity pamphlets) and a girl who writes for a newsmag tabloid sort of thing that exposes all the gossip and rumors about superheroes. It's interesting, I just didn't quite get into it. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that I was reading it at the hair salon while waiting for my color to process, so I was a little distracted. I didn't hate it, I'd give the 2nd volume a try, but I'm not totally sold yet.
August 28, 2013
This takes place in a world, where Superheroes and Superheroines are real, and they seem to be looked up to by everyone when being good and hated when going through scandals. That aspect reminds me of *Tiger & Bunny*, but the similarities end at that.
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Superheroes aside, this is just another geek-looking-for-a-girlfriend-then-obviously-easily-winning-her-over story. It's OK, but not highly impressive.
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I really liked the cat in this story, and how he shook things up from time-to-time.
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Superheroes aside, this is just another geek-looking-for-a-girlfriend-then-obviously-easily-winning-her-over story. It's OK, but not highly impressive.
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I really liked the cat in this story, and how he shook things up from time-to-time.
January 21, 2015
I like the idea of a romance comic set in a superhero universe. I liked some of the minor characters and Jack's cat. The art and story were confusing, though -- it took most of the book for me to figure out the characters' actual jobs. The main character also comes off very "Nice Guy," the kind of Nice Guy who thinks women are bitches because they don't want to date him even though he's "nice." The kind who resents other men -- in this case superheroes -- for "stealing" all the women. Bleh. Maybe he's going to learn a lesson in the second volume, but at this point I don't really care.
April 3, 2009
The main character is a guy who writes comic books about superheroes but the twist is that superheroes really exist and the comic books exist as publicity for the superheroes.
He is looking for love but feels that with superheroes around women aren't that attracted to regular girls.
Good illustrations. Ok story.
He is looking for love but feels that with superheroes around women aren't that attracted to regular girls.
Good illustrations. Ok story.
September 5, 2007
Cute and kinda sweet, what drew Kate & I to thsi originally, was teh kickassedly unique art style. It's a fun ongoing series with love, gossip, politics, superheroes, and jealous cats all interwoven.
December 11, 2007
I barely remember reading this book, even though I read it in the last couple of years.
Superheroes...Romance...Misunderstandings...
Superheroes...Romance...Misunderstandings...
November 3, 2016
Nothing special really, kind of a fun quick read.
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