Fantavaria

Secondary art blog for personal purpose. Will not post because Tumblr now scrapes for AI. Will only post links. Follow me on Bluesky, Mastodon.art, and Inkblot.art. same username. #MyArt

[fantavaria]

Fantavaria (@fantavaria.bsky.social)

#Batober2024 Day 1 Swarm HWAH I'm shoo tired I did this twice and it won't look the way I want Pentel Brush Sign Pen too thick for A6 So I j

Fantavaria (@fantavaria.bsky.social)

#Batober2024 Day 2 Threat Didn't intend to have him smile playfully at first but this feels more like Jason Didn't get the time to think for

[junkdrawerfan]

Idk if anyone will read this post but I've been trying to learn a bunch about different characters. And I've so far been learning about Tim. He's got so much content to sort through. I think only Dick (in terms of the Robins) has more content than him. So here are my thoughts while reading through some of Tim Drake's Robin run.

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Batman 468-469:

Tim has really been set up to be the "Robin who Saves Batman." Because Tim is a Robin who does not have an internal desire to run around as a caped crusader, "why is Time Drake a hero" seems to be an essential question to his existance from the beginning:

This is after Tim has lost his mother and his father is paralyzed and unable to care for him. As such, Tim is staying at Bruce's manor (though no offical adoption has taken place. In fact his living situation is not explained beyond him just living with Bruce. So i assume a fostering situation?) Already, we see Tim stepping in to care for Bruce and remind him he's not invunerable.

I'm really enjoying the 90s action vibe they give Tim. His first nemesis is King Snake who'd feel right at home in a Jackie Chan movie! The fact that this 14 year old boy has the "second greatest figher in the world" (right after Lady Shiva) shaking in his boots is WILD even though its King Snake confusing Robin & Lady Shiva haha

This is after Tim has lost his mother and his father is paralyzed and unable to care for him. As such, Tim is staying at Bruce's manor (though no offical adoption has taken place. In fact his living situation is not explained beyond him just living with Bruce. So i assume a fostering situation?) Already, we see Tim stepping in to care for Bruce and remind him he's not invunerable.

I'm really enjoying the 90s action vibe they give Tim. His first nemesis is King Snake who'd feel right at home in a Jackie Chan movie! The fact that this 14 year old boy has the "second greatest figher in the world" (right after Lady Shiva) shaking in his boots is WILD even though its King Snake confusing Robin & Lady Shiva haha

I get why he had the longest running Robin solo act.

Bruce is very very protective of Tim in this arc. Makes sense since he just lost his old Robin and was spiraling because of it. We're -- time wise -- about a year and a few months since Jason's death. It makes sense that Bruce is having a hard time since another boy in danger, especially in a situation where that boy is being targetted by the big bad of the run. I guess they have to get Bruce to a point where he'll let Tim run around without as much helicoptering (and eventually found the Young Justice!). Its a really fun emotional core.

Batman 470

Just fun romps. I know I should switch to Robin II (Robin I covered his training with lady shiva & meeting king snake which i wrote about here) to keep learning about Tim. But I do like the Batman comics. I do not understand the difference between the Batman & Detective Comics. Like I get the Detective Comics are the original Batman comics but they're both about Batman so like.... why have two batman runs about the same guy and characters in the same universe? Just put out more detective comic runs? Makes no sense (plus having dual Batman v Detective Comic runs really fucked over Jason's time as Robin. I'm excited they're putting out the Batman & Robin: Jason Todd comics soon so we can finally have a definitive Jason Todd Robin characterization.)

Batmna 471:

WTF! Killer Croc oh my god! You poor thing!!! He just wanted to hang out with his family and watch cable tv!

Okay. Switching to Robin II series to continue to learn about Tim Drake!

(Side Note: Thoughts about the Batman comics though. I dislike that they stopped in 2011. I mean this comic series has been running since the 1940s! Its cool for a character to have that much history. Honestly, they shouldn't have rebooted the OG lines like Batman/Detective Comics/Superman/Action Comics. They're such long running series its more fun to let them just keep going. Especially since they ended up rolling it all back anyway. Its just a weird choice to decide the shit that kept your company alive from the 1940s doesn't matter anymore?)

[fantavaria]

Robin and Batman Jason Todd is the same series as Robin and Batman (dick Grayson), it's not canon, and they made story decisions that shouldn't be canon such as croc finding out robin identity and characterization wise it leans on the Bruce is controlling, viewing robin and batman as a military role and having problems expressing care

[fantavaria]

Thank you to everyone who got me to 250 likes!

[tjmsteph]

once again thinking about how barbara set up a blind box for stephanie so she could send emails to tim and how these are canonically the things steph sends to tim in public chatrooms

[fantavaria]

Who is manga3 and arg$1?

[catastrophicalcat]

"Why not? It's my boat" is a great line from Bruce.

Batman & Robin #1 (2011)

[fantavaria]

They're both children

[catastrophicalcat]

Baby Bruce and Gordon are a good combo:

Absolute Batman #5

[fantavaria]

Oh he's old old

That's why babs is the cop

[fantavaria]

This art is gorgeous but the plot is Harley Quinn Love Island so unfortunately not for me

Art by Siobhan chiffon or Cathy le

I grabbed this from DC.com announcement of DC Go and it didn't clarify

[reginalusus]

I love your artwork so much!!

Have you ever drawn black mask - Roman Sionis before?

Thank you very much... and here's a quick doodle of him. Everyone's favourite fashion pyscho.

[catastrophicalcat]

I love this book. Look at how cute he is!

Batman and Robin Year One #6

[fantavaria]

I love how this book remembers the golden age training where Bruce said there's a few things he can learn from dick too (acrobatics)

Coz in modern bat training it tends to be already attributed to his world travel

[fuji-appless]

Amuro’s unsuccessful attempt at playing a trick on Conan.

I made this a while ago. I can’t believe I forgot to post this here too!!

[moss--and--bones]

Dan Mora, the man that you are.

[fantavaria]

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[cheer-me-on-world]

Something about this line always hits me.

"Being Robin gives me Magic."

Idk how to explain it but the general gist of a street kid who has seen the worst of humanity,finding magic in fighting crime.

[malfiora]

spoiler: Jaybin does not live to a pretty ripe age

[malfiora]

Wait the fuck a minute, did 14 year old Jason just call 20 years old Dick old?

[fantavaria]

Ripe just means adult but yes 14 do think 20 is old like there's a wall between school kids and adults that they don't realize how close coz some of their teachers are 20 something

[fantavaria]

2 years later this got to my recommendation and only now i found out Connor got a nendoroid

[danitalkscomics]

Absolutely flabbergasted to learn that a significant portion of training to be Robin is just Alfred shooting at you and taking it a little easy on you

from Batman & Robin: Year One #2

[fantavaria]

This is new...

There was firearms training before but not Gatling gun

[thenonbinarydetective]

"got me off the couch" nightwing it's 7 AM, do you have a bed??

[fantavaria]

He has but he also always passes out on the couch if he's too tired vigilanting

[thenonbinarydetective]

Love it when Ra's gets genuine grandpa moments

"experience a little culture... awful California rolls..." his mega boomer is showing

[fantavaria]

"Well it's not my fault most authentic sushi are mild'

[cognitivedissonance]

Text: Patrick Farley Illustration: Jon Wolter

[date-a-jew-suggestions]

I thought today would be a good day to reblog a Jewish American icon punching out hitler, I think we all could use seeing this a few times today.