#carrie fernandez

[dreadlock-detective]

Lucky me, my favorite Castlevania is in no danger of being adapted by Netflix lol

This is actually a paintover of a drawing I did like 11 years ago. Needed a fair bit of anatomy touchups but the face was still pretty solid.

[rosebleue]

Uh... Castlevania but it's Carrie and Malus being the protagonists of a corny slice of life manga?

[nedofrisk]

[heta-magisch]

Witch

[captnshane]

Castlevania 64 rocks!

[inversionimpulse]

I have mixed feelings what I recently learned re: Charlotte Aulin being a Belnades.

On the one hand it feels a little creatively shallow to have the hero’s magician friend be from the same clan as the other protagonists’ other magician friends

On the other hand it’s really funny. I suppose that Trevor and Sypha inadvertently doomed their families to be stuck with each other for the entire rest of time. There’s a Belmont? There’s a Belnades! Even the Belmonts’ weird American cousins have the Belnades’ weird American cousins around to bicker/cooperate with. Even all the way out in the year 2035, what do you know, there’s Julius Belmont and Yoko Belnades! That’s six centuries after Trevor and Sypha! One marriage and these two clans just cannot escape each other!

[miaqc1]

If you like, leave a kudos. 🙂 Drawings by @daisiesamethyst.

[wyverncult]

finished carrie's route! she was cool :D

[xenobuster]

This young magic practitioner is not to be underestimated. She is a descendant of the Belnades clan and already masters very well it is magical powers due to a traumatic past. She is looking for the rest of her clan in Europe. She allied herself for a while with Schneider to defeat Dracula.

[sarukahparullah]

Carrie from the hit game Castlevania 64 fr

[fondofit]

Better start posting my doodles here again! Here’s a quick thing I did of Carrie from Castlevania 64. She’s great and needs to be brought back somehow.

[nedofrisk]

I could finish this art faster, but I'm too lazy

And maybe I’ll draw Malus from castlevania 64 later :’)

[heta-magisch]

The Terrifying Magical Nitro

[appleandsnow]

Betrayal

Antonio thinks too much.

So when you call him to zip up your dress, he has had the time to go through an entire loop of thought.

He mainly thinks about you, time, betrayals, sometimes himself. Mostly, he thinks of the cruelty of being tied to you.

In a sense, time was the most beautiful courtesan of all. Always inescapable, perfectly content to twirl in his arms and mark him with kisses but just as perfectly reluctant to acknowledge credit.

Just like you.

Perfectly content to have him pine for you but just as reluctant to do the same.

Perhaps it was madness.

Perhaps it was foolishness but would you pine for him? As he did for you?

Would you stay with him? As he did for you?

In gifting you his heart, was he actually stomping on it?

Unwittingly though he'd fallen, had he fallen to break?

It was a betrayal on your part that you no longer knew enough to answer him, soothe him, comfort him, spoil him and tell him that you only belonged to each other in all your lives but it was just another thing that had marked him with no traces to be credited for.

"You look beautiful" he hums the tune playing outside into your hair, kissing it occasionally as you take the time to admire you and Antonio in the mirror.

You were beautiful to him. As you were in every life.

He was yours. As he was in every life.

You were his only courtesan. As you were in every life.

He kept his end of the promise. As he did in every life.

And it was a promise well kept. As it was in every life.

[miaqc1]

Happy Castlevania 64 Carrie Fernandez in pixel art! Commissioned from @pixelartparker.

His works are amazing, especially the Ace Attorney characters. 😄

[batbabydamian]

BATMAN AND ROBIN (2023) #14 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Javier Fernandez! rambling about the new team and arc!! a jumping-on point for anyone wanting to read recent Bruce and Damian comics 🦇🐥

setting the stage with action!! mystery and intrigue!! expectations for further character exploration for Damian!!

if that's not enough to pique interest, here's a rendition of one of the many cute grumpy Damian panels

first of all THE OPENING ACTION SCENE OH MY GOD (this splash page hello!!)

i love...the collaborative effort in comics...it shines through right from the start, especially when it involves traditional inks 😭

using this single panel as an example from Fernandez’s ig:

Fernandez lays out most of the groundwork in his inks - the fully inked silhouette of the driver in the foreground, the shading suggesting the lighting, the white ink/paint lined and splattered for the rain!!

then off to colors with Marcelo Maiolo!! he elevates the panel to emphasize how it's a shot from within the vehicle looking out the windshield - the lightly tinted inks, the bright lighting from headlights, and the slight window sheen + bokeh!!

one more similar example, with comparison by the man himself - Fernandez already implying the glare, scraping white against Batman and Robin's silhouettes. then punched up with Maiolo's colors/lighting!! WOW!!

OKAY SORRY ONE MORE along with Steve Wands’ consistently lovely lettering, Fernandez included his own sfx in his inks of this page!! not sure how often he does it past this, but SO cool!! ever since seeing Juni Ba's sfx lettering in his inks, it's such a sick extra detail to me 😭

ANYWAY i can go on about what i love about each panel for this scene but gotta move on from the explosive intro of Batman and Robin to the more grounded side of Bruce and Damian (which ends up being just as explosive)!! 🥺

there's small details carrying over from Williamson's run like Bruce making Damian vegan meals and Damian creating comics; otherwise, we have a much more engaging writing of the two almost reminiscent to Tomasi and Gleason's run!

one example being his attitude towards a fancy event interrupting his and Dick's patrol in Batman and Robin (2009) #20

the first line from Bruce and Damian's disregard for a fundraising event is a bit of head scratcher to me when Damian is plenty compassionate, BUT for the sake of a jumping-on arc for new readers it’s a clear point of reference for Damian’s character - a kid who believes more in Batman and Robin work than what could be done outside of those masks. it becomes a matter of how Damian's perspective might change around this subject and how he'll take action in helping outside of Robin 🤔

another similar Tomasi-esque moment is Damian's snark about his grandfather lol, a sentiment that carries over from Batman and Robin (2011) #1

PKJ references his Ra's al Ghul story from Gotham City Villains Anniversary Giant! especially curious when the final line by Talia is "...you will see my father again", when Ra's is currently dead. a fun lil callback or also a convenient nod to future plans? 👀

NOW THE MYSTERY AND INTRIGUE OF IT ALL...

Bruce's attention is caught by this man shouting "You sit atop the wheel" which i'm guessing is in reference to the Wheel of Fortune, especially if we're going by a literal interpretation of the rich and poor (depicting the group among tents and carts).

i'm really reaching here, but wondering if Bruce calling himself “Jack” at some point is also related to the arcana. the only relation i could find is the Page of Wands, and the Jack once being referred to as a "knave"

EDIT: an anon reached out to inform me that Bruce called himself “Jack” during his training! seems to be first introduced in Batman: The Knight (2022) #4

THE REVEAL OF THE NEW VILLAIN, MEMENTO...the first page opens on a deceased person's face, and the last dialogue is "We will see your face again." AND OH BOY WE CERTAINLY DO! 😭

the flames casting a harsh light against the plaster (or stone??) of Memento's mask, and how he looms over Bruce...SO EERIE...

FINAL RAMBLY THOUGHTS

Damian being colored with noticeable melanin...🥺 i can only assume this was a deliberate choice made by PKJ since the editors haven't changed, and for the past issues Damian's colors have been independent to the colorists - the only edit being after Rex Lokus gave him green eyes in #5 but were returned to blue in #6 (for consistency ig). along with the classic teen asian haircut, this feels intentional on PKJ's part and i hope Damian will continue to be colored brown here and other books 🥺👉👈

one of the things PKJ teased in an interview was the idea of Damian wondering if he even wants to still be Robin, much less Batman (begging this is where main canon Damian gives the Batman mantle up lol). so presenting Damian here as someone absorbed in that life makes me wonder what triggers those thoughts - is it going to be this incident or later? more currently, will Damian be able to protect the civilians that Bruce entrusted him with? especially after getting familiar with a few, however reluctantly?

anyway, a banger first issue that leaves you with just enough crumbs to know what you're expecting but still beg for more: what's the mysterious new group/villain, and their connection to Bruce? will Dr. Bashar and the Wayne grandparents have more to do with the story? how will this all affect Damian outside of being Robin? Talia and Ra’s?? so many questions!!