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Ok, the top of the page are supossed to be a huge group of dragons flying to the battle field. I had no idea how to do it quickly and without taking too much effort on it, is just a low budget comic.

In panel 4 James sounds more like Gregory House than like James: "You will do nothing", quote from House from chapter season one Control. Homage, rgeular sentence, never thought I had House in mind after I read it carefully.

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I said silver, but it looks black. That's because of the CV mode, it turns silver into black, but don't worry. All the movies and comics mentioned here are there because I love them and admire them. Such awarded and admired pieces of culture deserve a spot here too :) even if it's just a little place.

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Pannel four, where James explains the battle strategy is basically influenced by my many hours playing Advance wars DS.

For the line in last panell, where James mentions "Tom Cruise" as a help for them in the battle, is a line influenced by the great Will Ferrell in "Talladega nights". If you saw the movie you will know which line I am reffering to.

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Ok, second "Splash" page, where the focus of it goes to the dragon-like creature in the middle. As I said is not the quite proportion of monsters I wanted, but limited media again. It supossed to be that we have more advantage on fire power than a few monsters with only claws and teeth, but they are determined to rip them off.

Bottom right, James and Martin hide behind a crashed car.

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Trying to make a fuzzy vision effect in the first pannels, while Martin delivers the first swearing word in the comic. I think.
The final line of James, reffering to the shoting of Jaws, everyone who loves movies will know that Spielberg had a thought time trying to shot that movie.

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Not "colored" traditionally. All the black was added via photoshop, if ther eis any difference, please tell me. The monsters, little monsters that appear in pannel number four, are called Magma Monsters. Monsters made out of lava that explode. Yeah, Final Fantasy made such a huge impact in my life.

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Ok, read from left to right please.
If this has comic format this page should be two pages. Splash page I think it's called, I am not sure. It shows a transversal view of the battle, Martin and Suikun talking up the page while in the battlefield all hell breaks lose. Not the desired amount of monsters, but I have limited media. :D

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Lots and lots and lots of dialogue in this page, Suikun explaining the situation, not many art more than letters. Here is where my influence of Fanhunter appears. Fanhunter is a greta spanish comic I recomend everyone read.

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Wow! Look at that circular thing in the middle of the page! Isn't it great!? It meant to represent the wall that sorrounds the city, pretty cryptical again. *sighs*. There we see Suikun in the last pannel using this very old fashioned touchable screens XD This page has nothing else to offer atcually.

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Pannel five. Jarhead word mentioned, no doubt influence by the movie of the same name. I wonder what it means in spanish.

What James says in the last pannel is a spanish insult which translated means the same as in english in the comic, and it's normally used to reffer to the mother of the insulted person, not even using the words b**** or w****.

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The first five pannels ar ein sequence. They show the car door open, the key twisting in the contact, entering a speed rate, then the tire rolling. Sorry if it looked cryptical.

The last pannel was a hard decission. Wether to make a map showing them going away from the section or showing the monster army approaching. Took second decission and looks much better.

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Maybe House's best quote is said by John in panel number 5. Is from episode "Euphoria, 2nd part", and it's said at the beggining of the chapter. "I think you should call Jack Bauer", is the quote.

John is the one who actually starts the assault. Why? More in the next pages. Just to see, it starts with violence, the monsters is finished by Victoria's Thompson and falls death.

To be continue...

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As you see, there is the blood and it appears black. It will stick to black. John had seen something, what a sight he has, and they both go the edge of the section to see what is.

Is the section 24 where they are now, if you didnt noticed.

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My characters do film refferences to express their feelings. They all do, some of them different refferences or in different ways. In one globe she speaks about Jarhead (great movie) and about her DS which is running out of battery.

At the bottom she remembers her first years in the NY police, beign like the cop who enters in the crime scene before the CSI team enters. So she had seen lots of shocking stuff.

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In panel number 3, John talks about "House MD". John is a guy who loves the series that are new and cool, and so on. He first was an X Files fan, then he was a 24 fan, and now he is fan of House MD. All of them tv series produced by FOX. Because we all know best TV series are in FOX tv (Simpsons, Family guy, Lost, Prison break, etc...)

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Of course the title is based on "Assault on precint 13", which is for me one of the best action-thriller movies of all time. John Carpenter did a great work in that movie.

The letters are "Impact" model, in size 80 and colored red, to give a kind of old movie feeling. I remember the old movies (from the fifties to the seventies I mean) having this titles at the beggining.

Of course this is supposed to be Washington, but I have no idea how Washington looks like, so I just drew a couple of buildings. I apologize from here to everyone who lives in Washington, I am sorry.

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First page, introducing three characters. John, Victoria and the section 24. What I used here is what I am calling (just in a funny way) Contrast Vision. Is actually a very "Sin city" like way of making a comic, black and white and with contrasts. My firts comic experience was not very good, coloring and things like that, so I stick to the regular way of making a comic. Black and white.

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Introduction page. Stating from line number one that I hate Meteor movies. Armaggedon is awesome because the characters are great, but Deep impact is a piece of crap, to be perfectly honest. Everytime I see a meteor movie and the earth get's saved I just burst into laughs. Is so impossible that is not believable. If a meteor comes to the earth, we must be saying goodbye.
So this takes place in a post apocaliptic future. No mutations for the furries, they were furries before the meteor crash, but yes mutation for the monsters.

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I going through colorings. This red I like it, I will spread it all over the comic. Not when blood comes, because this is a PG comic, so blood appears black, but for lights, alerts, banners and credits.

The DA credit goes for my beloved watchers there.

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