Comments on: Andi Watson’s 15 Love to Finally Be Published, Eight Years Later

By: Gene

Gene — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:12:34 +0000

This was a well written comic with exciting colors and art and a subject dear to my own heart. I liked the characters and the appreciate the risk Marvel took publishing this one! My comic shop sold out of issue 1 the first day and ordered more just to sell out. Anyone who writes a Buffy script has my attention, thanks Andi! One issue: get the scoring and tennis terminology right. A quick call to a local tennis pro who could give the script a once over for any glaring errors in the basic tennis language would help make this good story even better. Especially unfortunate was the fact that a set cannot end with the score 6-5 as you must win by 2 games. Second, in tennis, like boxing, the contest is call a “match” not a “game” and the coach in the story would not call it that. Otherwise, excellent work and keep the tennis stories coming, PLEASE!

By: michael ryan

michael ryan — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:05:33 +0000

this was a good comic

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By: Grant

Grant — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:15:50 +0000

@ Paul

“I don’t quite understand the logic of making her a notional update of Millie the Model. It was never going to boost sales,”

Perhaps they were just covering their bases and felt they might draw in older customers based on whatever nostalgia value the original Millie might have.

I know most of the Masterworks, Essentials and Archive purchases I make are roughly 20 to 40% nostalgia driven. And I know I’m not the only one.

That sort of sentiment won’t keep a series afloat by any means (see Agents of Atlas) but a small audience is better than nothing I guess.

By: Paul O'Brien

Paul O'Brien — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:24:04 +0000

This, I suspect, is being published in the same spirit as the FROM THE MARVEL VAULT one-shots from the last two months – we’ve already paid for it, we’re printing to order so the downside is minimal, what the hell. I don’t think anyone really expects it to succeed, they just figure they might as well try and recoup some of the outlay.

I don’t quite understand the logic of making her a notional update of Millie the Model. It was never going to boost sales, and it would seem to obstruct any attempt to licence the characters separately – not that there was ever much chance of that, admittedly.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:01:09 +0000

Thanks, guys, Grant for informing me, Greg for educating me, and Charles for making me laugh. Grant, I liked the Night Nurse miniseries too. I wish we could get more of that character.

By: Grant

Grant — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:53:20 +0000

Seems those “Atlas” girls do have a hard time getting reinvented. I remember when marvel did The Cat(aka Tigra) to revive the “Greer” character and then revived Patsy Walker for Hellcat (the recent trade that revived her was pretty cool but didn’t sell very good) And I thought reviving Night Nurse for that Doctor Strange story a few years ago was a neat concept but we don’t see much of her either these days.

By: Greg McElhatton

Greg McElhatton — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:32:14 +0000

“Here are some of the interior pages, where everyone looks angry to indicate determination.”

Having sat second row for matches on some of the smaller courts of the US Open, trust me, that is EXACTLY what they all look like. All that’s missing is the loud grunt/shout from the ladies as they hit the ball.

By: Charles Knight

Charles Knight — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:57:03 +0000

“so this is facing an uphill battle — maybe the panty shot fanservice is a way of hedging bets and attracting male readers. Let’s hope that it doesn’t turn off more people than it attracts.”

They could be having full-blown sex on the cover and this is still going to die a terrible death. Even if you got the average direct market reader to overlook that it’s a) about tennis and b) about tennis and c) there are no superheroes in it and d) did I mention it’s about tennis – it’s being launched in a two month window where Marvel and DC are flooding the market with a glut of one-shots, “important” comics. If this sells 7000 copies in the DM I’ll be amazed.