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Main page, as every comic should have it's cover to show the name of the author and creator. I actually did this because is kinda cool, not because I want to state that the comic is mine.

But the comic is mine, ok? X3

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As I said in the past, maybe I will re-comment this again, I did this taking place in a post apocaliptic world where the USA is destroyed. So it has logic for the action to take plaze in Spain.
I feel myself guilty by destroying a country, but I try to calm myself thinking that some other film makers did before I do. So this is an influence of those apocaliptic movies.

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I feel like had seen this too many times actually :@ but maybe I should explain that this is a dream sequence showing what is going to happen, or what is thought is going to happen.

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In the bottom right part you will see the government building in Spain, taken right out of a photo I used to give geography to the place.
Now in the first pannels of the page you will see this shinny ball running this conducts to a screen. A direct influence of Minority Report.

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Here myself trying to explain who this weird characters are. Now James and Helen realize that they will be in serious problems and troubles and very soon.

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Some more explanation to see that if Helen remembers something about what's going to happen it will appear in the screen in the governments building. The clock, digital clock, they have in the bedroom looks like my old digital clock.

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Driving the streets of Madrid. I look at this page and Madrid really looks like this at night, and the governments building looks like that with rusty stuff hanging from the walls. Not a nice vission at all. Anyways, the interior of the building looks nice.

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Stills dark too dark, because it's at night and it must be dark, why not? do not worry, it will come at blinding light the upcoming pages so you don't have to suffer from eye problems because of this deep darkness.

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Now we see the blinding light. Fluorescent light is kinda blue, but blue could have ruined the mood of the scene. Blue makes red purple, and I don't want to have the red armchair of the "neckdriller"(tm) look like purple. The neckdriller will be explained in next page.

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The Neckdriller is actually like a USB port that connects into the brain by the nerves of the neck. I can't believe I just typed that. It's used to download the thoughts, dreams, ideas, etc from the brain. Of course, the process is painful and can cause death.

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Here to show the process of downloading and recording of the images. They will use those images to discover what's going to happen, and when and by whom. Of course, direct influence from Minority report, which can be consider one of the most influencial movies of my life.

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Thsi page is blurry and foggy because it's how Helen's vision is. After suffering the neckdriller her eyes are out of focus, so now she has to wait a couple of panels to get better and recover her usual vision.

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Just read "DVD" in that little panel makes me laugh. I don't know what technollogy we will have in the 2054, but I like to think in retro-futurism if that's a valid adjective. This kind of pages made to explain the action and make the plot go on make me get lazy at finish them.

But it's needful for the comic book.

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Ok. Now we go with the "prediction effect". To make this images look blurry and out of focus was a blast, I enjoyed a lot because I used all the visual effects that photoshop allows you to do. Blurry, glass, sea waves, interferences, noise, textures...It was fun to do.

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Here is am homage, if I can call that. Martin's pc has a little silouete on it's side, that resembles the bull os "Osborne". This bull is the only publicity we can have in our natural environments in Spain, because is the representation of the countries culture. How funny, no?
Again, more and more effects for the visions.

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What happened here? I don't know. Sometimes I don't know what am I doing with the levels of the photoshop and I make this accident. I didn't tried to correct it because the predictions must be misterious and dark. Althought this looks more dark than misterious. If is not noticeable, the first pannel depicts some firemen, and the rest the point of view of the airplane about to crash. The white stripes are the lines of the landing runway.

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I actually had to re-size and re-compress this page. I don't know why :P

Here we see the doomed ending of that airplane. Nowadays in the news I see a lot of airplane accidents and crashes. I wonder if it's my fault...Well, once I saw a flash player that said that furries caused airplane crashes. It was a joke flash of course.

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Using a graphic tablet to analize data of an upcoming airplane crash is not reliable. But is the kind of silly thing I think about when I put myself in front of white paper with a mech pencil.

Also gave me the chance to make some PC graphics which ar enot very fancy. Direct influence from the transparent walls of Minority Report and the holograms of Final Fantasy.

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Using photos I made in a trip to Barcelona, including one a friend of mine gave me of the "El Prat" airport like two years ago. Using real photos in a comic book is challenging, because obviously, the photos look better than the drawings I made. So I understand why people say nothing about this page, it's because they look to the photos.

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I am not sure of the exact distance between Madrid and Barcelona, but 640 Kilometters look good for me, and also a respectful distance to make them in seven hours, taking into account the fact that they have to prepare the emergency teams for the crash landing.

Not an easy job.

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Silent page, no dialogue. I am happy to make them, you don't cover the entire drawing with balloons of text. The space ship is a direct direct direct influence from Final Fantasy VIII, the videogame. I am sure players of that game recognized it. I like the game so much I couldnt resist make my own aero-spaceship form the Athena Group.

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Ok. Here is the polemic word. Can I put Bastard in a comic rated PG? The answer is, of course. Even in The Simpsons they say so. Also I decided to put it when I first saw the movie "Twister" in the Disney Channel, with all the swearing removed. Needless to say that they ruined the movie that way :P Swearing can be very funny sometimes.

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Here comes the blu treatment. The blue treatment is something used in film making. It basically sucks the colour of the faces of the actors, and leaves them palid like ghosts. Examples of this blue treatment can be seen in practice in both Spielberg/Cruise movies, Minority report and War of the worlds.
Here I just took the blue treatment to the literal extreme. Everything is blueish. Check out the surveillance camera.

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The first panel was the first panel I did for the comic book. I wanted to create the effect of a surveillance camera vision, this is green with interferences. So I just colored it green and applied to it a texture layer. Problem solved.
And in our cameo list, here we have my domestic cat, Deimos, performing the commander in chief of the airport. Is a cat but it looks like a f***ing rabbit.

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More blue treatment. Watch the digital clock and imagine you are watching "24" for one moment. You will get the idea of the rythm of the following pages very well. The firt panel took me blood and sweat. Because I like to use them to ink my art :P no no no, is just is a pain to draw so many characters in a so little panel.

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So there we have James, with his coffee and the radio. Not a very futuristic radio for year 2054, but what if the design wasnt accurate enough? It could have looked like a razzor. The airplane there is from a spanish company, that's why it has the panish flag dranw in the wing.

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The last panel is the one that buys the page. The rest are close ups of the mouths and the eyes. I found myself doing this page and realized about how much Hellboy influenced me. Mike Mignola is my fav comic writter and artist, and I think this page drinks from Hellboy's look a lot.

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There is, big shot of the airport runway and the airplane fo the spanish company trying to ge tout of it. I think I choose the wrong month to upload a comic book with airplane crashes. But this takes place in Spain and in a future in the year 2054, so I think it's ok.

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Firemen coming, clock counting down, is going to finish, or is this going to end up well and positively? To know the answer keep reading :D or wait for the final page, I would do that.

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This page, and the next one, are my "Unbreakable" pages. I am tlaking about the movie, not about the adjective. I think that's the best super hero movie ever made, despite Xmen and Spiderman, and I love Spiderman. I wanted to show the weakness and humanity of this unhuman characters. Just to check out how Helen doubts of her powers.

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