Fernando

[Aldranar]

I can't say I like the idea of shorter comics... they're good as they're now, people are just too impatient....

[PhallenFoenix]

Either works for me. I think I'm fine with the comics the way they're written now, but I'll continue to buy either way.

[luckarusky]

The only way to definitively know if the format works is to try it. Other artists have clearly had success with the approach. So we'll see how it works out over several future releases.

[Kelswa]

Hello Fernando,

BTW is the funny fernando-homepage-banner "Blondes dont have more fun" http://www.dofantasy.com/inages2/fansad ... banner.jpg somewhere available in BIG?
Thx

[fernando]

Hello Fernando,

BTW is the funny fernando-homepage-banner "Blondes dont have more fun" http://www.dofantasy.com/inages2/fansad ... banner.jpg somewhere available in BIG?
Thx

I placed it here: http://www.dofantasyforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=498

[fernando]

Hi everyone,

I've posted previews of the next comic here:

http://www.dofantasyforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=499

[Kelswa]

Hello Fernando,

BTW is the funny fernando-homepage-banner "Blondes dont have more fun" http://www.dofantasy.com/inages2/fansad ... banner.jpg somewhere available in BIG?
Thx

I placed it here: http://www.dofantasyforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=498

Thank you very much ^^

[comicglutton]

Hi Fernando, any chance of a short comic sequel to WOMAN HUNT 4, sometime ? I really would like to see a story involving the blonde ( Shelma) after she is delivered to Mad Satan as his slave. Loved the series....one of your best IMO

[ROBERTS]

That's a really excellent cover on "DV III"....bravo my friend, bravo..

[orangezzzzz]

Fernando,

I recently read Dark Vengence 3 and, while this story has never had as great an appeal to me as some of your other works (Cheerleaders is my favorite, hint, hint...), there was one scene that I found to be absolutely breathtaking. The scene I am talking about is Brooke's attempted suicide.

It starts in the morning with Brooke regaining consciousness after being mercilessly abused the night before, setting the stage for her fragile mental state: she isn't asleep anymore, but she's not really awake either, her body pushed to the limits of exhaustion after being subjected by her captors to a day-long sex marathon. From the start of the comic, Brooke's psychological well-being strains more and more as she tries to escape brutal reality by withdrawing into fantasy, and that never ends well.

When I looked at Brooke's face as she stood in the doorway and stared at the beautiful sky, that is what I saw: a girl who wanted to lose herself in a fantasy, forever. Given Brooke's wish about wanting to fly away, I found her pose here to be ironic. The way her arms are restrained in the air, they resemble outstretched wings and give her the appearance of some kept exotic bird (with those crazy pink stockings as plumage). Was that what you were going for?

The pool made for a fitting spot for Brooke to try to end her life, considering where her character started out when the series began: swimming in the pool while her best friend reads trashy romance novels. Holley tells us that the plots of the novels involve steamy relationships such as love between women, but also other things like (ironically enough) teacher and student, father and daughter's best friend too. While we saw a bit of that last one in the second comic between Brooke and Mr. Royce, I also couldn't help but wonder about the possibility of Brooke's father (not in the story so far) and Holly, as the novels were filling Holly's mind with romantic drivel that was leading her to experiment in new ways (like kissing Brooke), but I'm getting off topic. Looking again at Brooke's fantasies, especially the one involving her math professor, it's almost like she is slipping into nightmarish versions of Holly's novels in the same way that Holly admits to being engrossed by these books:

"Hey Holly! What's the point of Spring Break if you're going to be reading all the time?"

"I never enjoyed swimming, that's all. Besides, you know I can't drop a Dawn Darcy novel once I start it."

As the suicide scene draws to a close with that guy pulling Brooke out of the water and performing CPR on her lifeless body, I honestly couldn't help but wonder if you were going to let her die. Having read other comics of yours, I know that many of your female characters literally beg for death at one point or another (Brooke herself wants to be killed in the first Dark Vengence comic), but this is the closest that I have seen any of them actually come to getting it. The only other instance I can think of where suicide is attempted in one of your stories was in one of the Cheerleaders comics in which Anna stopped eating in order to die, but Ass Buster simply force-fed her. Even then, we didn't get to see any of this play out. It was just something that Anna happens to mention as she laments her continued existance, and then it's never brought up again. Did I mention that Cheerleaders is my favorite? Oh well. At least I got to see Brooke dressed up as a cheerleader this time around.

Dark Vengence is indeed a darker work for you, Fernando. I liked how you used the idea of fantasy drawing in the fantasizer. We tend to think of fantasy as being harmless enough (e.g., Dawn Darcy novels), but often people don't realize that fantasy, like vengence, can have a dark side.