Mill Collins is a struggling student at Florida's Wayde Tennis Academy. Her coach isn't helping her, she keeps losing matches, and her aunt - who pays for her tuition - is about to give up on her.
Walt is a washed-up tennis coach who happens to see Mill play and decides that she's got untapped potential. Walt's wife Wendy is a beautician who thinks Mill's also got potential as a model. Between them, they're offering her some unexpected opportunities.
On the other hand, Mill's academy rival Maya really wants to see her fail. And Mill's aunt may be well-intentioned, but she can also be a little too controlling. Will it all go wrong?
Originally planned as a six issue series, it was actually published as three double-sized issues.
15 Love contains examples of:
- Big "NO!": Shouted during the academy final match. Cal distracts Mill by waving a Bootex sports bra and modelling contract at her while she's playing. The ball hits the net and she then shares her frustration. As it turns out, the ball was irrelevant - his interruption's just caused her disqualification anyway.
- Career-Ending Injury: The cartilage damage to Cal's knee ended his tennis career.
- Continuity Reboot: Of the original Millie the Model series. Mill's aunt Millie may or may not be intended as the original Millie (if she is, also Took a Level in Jerkass since the previous series).
- Establishing Character Moment:
- Maya Benjamin smashes her tennis racket in anger as soon as Mill scores a point against her, even though she's still clearly going to win the match.
- Dean is supposed to be coaching Mill, but ignores her match to ask Mrs Benjamin if Maya's sisters need a coach. When Mill leaves the court he can't even get her name right.
- Aunt Millie refuses to let Mill order her own meal when they meet for dinner in the restaurant. Instead, she orders Mill a salad and tells her that she needs to count her calories.
- He's Back!: Walt‘s arc. At the start of the series he's quit coaching and is drinking booze out of a brown paper bag while watching Mill play. Coaching her helps him pull it together again.
- Privileged Rival: Maya's family is wealthy enough that her punishment for a poor game is a thousand dollar reduction in this month's jewellery allowance.
- The Svengali: Some of Mill's coaches and mentors are problematic, to say the least.
- Dean is actively looking for other players to coach, isn't remotely interested in supporting Mill, and lies to her aunt about her training. His Establishing Character Moment has him asking Maya's mother if Maya's sisters need a coach, paying no attention to Mill and Maya's match.
- Cal wants to simultaneously be Mill's boyfriend, coach and agent - and is more interested in her earning potential than her broader career and skills. He lies about his history to discredit Walt, gets Mill disqualified from her Academy final by interrupting the match, and tries to talk her into modelling "Bootex" sports bras on a station called Babe TV.
