Here's a second draft of my Bladerunner meets sixth sense comic. It is a serious comic. Still WIP as far as art, but i'm interested to see if people think the story works now (I've only made minor changes though). Also, do you think it would work better with the last two text boxes removed?

Stay away helm, its still Marvel-ly! Also nudity warning.

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Helm I am 23. Have you seen "Idiocracy"? I think you'd like it. It's SCI-FI.

"Tek Jansen" is a pretty good podcast type thing. It's SCI-FI.

Dutsy -

Some good Sci-fi ones would be "i robot", "xmen1" and "fantastic four: rise of the silver surfer".

There are tons of good films so long as they have a good story. Thats why i dont say xmen2,xmen3 or fantasticfour. They had shit story, even though its the same characters. I'm not saying I'm an expert on stories but i think its the most important thing. If you watch potc2 with the scenes ordered as the writers intended (ie. start with the black pearl) then suddenly something boring to begin with is interesting - the scene where jack talks to bootstrap becomes intense.

I also like some japanese films like:
Battle royale
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/
One about a samurai:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0359692/
Azumi
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384819/
Another one about a samurai:
http://www.hkflix.com/xq/asp/filmID.545268/qx/details.htm

All my comics are unashamedly marvel.  And some "the phantom".

edit: oops you said books. Isaac Asimov. I tried to read most of his stories.

I drew this with a mouse so don't expect great drawings, no need to crit 'em. But if you want to crit the story, dialog etc. go for it!

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Still haven't watched Bladerunner ...

Have you seen 'natural city'? The love story works. Bladerunner's love story doesn't.

Didn't Harrison Ford say that Blade runner was a detective story where he doesn't solve anything?

The whole "he is a replicant also" is fine for if they revealed it, like in the sixth sense.

I haven't seen both films recently so I would be interested to see if anyone agrees that natural city fixes the problems in Blade runner - memories are unreliable.

Lastly I don't mind ambiguity and open ended endings when its done well. Anyone see I tv series called 'press gang' - its british, about a bunch of students who write a newspaper. I'll talk about that to show ambiguity I like.

Anyway there are two students (boy and girl) who are opposites and they ought to get together but i don't think they ever do. Anyway one episode the girl is locked inside a bank vault. Her favourite number isn't 3 or 7 or something, its something huge like 129,483. Her mobile doesn't work properly and she is running out of air. Anyway she gets out because the code to unlock it is 129483. So she is good at getting out of scrapes. Also its a show that is serious (eg. drug taking, youth suicide) but funny sometimes also.

So here is the ambiguity - the last episode she goes to the house of this guy who committed suicide years ago ( in the first series) because she wouldn't let him on the newspaper. I think the boy's dad had died and bequethed something to her. For some reason she gets knocked out and the house starts to burn down with her inside. Then there is a scene where she talks to that guy in hell and he blames her for ruining his life and causing his suicide. The next seen there is the boy who ought to get together with her and is all depressed and sitting on the couch. He's heard the house has burnt down with her inside. Then she walks into the room looking healthy with only soot marks on her face. The guy says how much he loves her, she says she loves him. But then he says, "how do i know this isn't a dream. How do i know that it won't end after you kiss me". So she says "you'll have to kiss me and find out". And they go to kiss and then the series ends. Forever.

Did she die?. Did she survive?. Both alternatives fit. Both you want kinda. Its enjoyable thinking about it. The main thing is its a GOOD story which Blade runner isn't.