These are various influences on our thought processes and, by extention, the comic. We'll be adding information as it claws it's way to the surface of our brains.

Movies/TV	Books	Games
ZARDOZ Christopher Walken Mystery Science Theater 3000 Big O 2001: A Space Odyssey 2010: The Year We Make Contact Akira Robot Carnival Aliens Dune Battle Angel Alita Macross Plus Chobits Hand Maid May Mahoromatic Blade Runner Legend Record of Lodoss War Early John Woo Pulp Fiction Reservoir Dogs Anything by Akira Kurosawa Star Wars (Only the first three. Well Ep 4,5,6. You know what we mean. The non-sucky ones.) Matrix Brazil Anything Monty Python Shaolin Master Killer Shoalin Temple Swordsman 2 Legend of Condor Hero Master of the Flying Guillotine Fist of Legend The One Street Fighter (The Sonny Chiba movies, not the crappy Van-Damme thing) Shaft Superfly Dolomite Airplane Top Secret Hot Shots Kentucky Fried Movie Highlander Ranma 1/2 Any El Santo movie Mortal Kombat Almost anything with Tim Robbins Anything by the Cohen Brothers such as Raising Arizona or The Big Lebowski possibly Millers Crossing or even Oh Brother Where Art Thou Buckaroo Banzai Unbreakable Ghost in the Shell Neon Genesis Evangelion Tenchi Muyo Outlaw Star Key the Metal Idol Black Magic M-66 Sabor Marionette Iczer 1 Galaxy Express 999 Ikuhara, Kunihiko: "Revolutionary Girl Utena" All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku Video Girl Ai Dragonball Z Metropolis Armitage Escaflowne Weiss Kreuz Fruits Basket Azumanga Daioh Kenshin Countdown: CherryBomb Cheers (Intro)	H. P. Lovecraft Douglas Adams Frank Miller: "Dark Knight Returns", "Batman: Year One" William Gibson Philip K. Dick Bruce Sterling Neal Stephenson Hiroaki Samura: "Blade Of the Immortal" Alan Moore: "The Watchmen", "V, for Vendetta" Fujishima Kosuke: "Ah, My Goddess (Ah, Megamisama)" Clive Barker Robert Bloch Stephen King Neil Gaiman Michael Moorcock Clamp: "Card Captor Sakura", "Clover" Saito, Chiho: "Revolutionary Girl Utena" Jhonen Vasquez: "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac", "Invader Zim"	Street Fighter Half Life Doom Quake 1,2,3 StarCraft Counter Strike Unreal Tournament Diablo 1 & 2 Warcraft 3 Max Payne Mortal Kombat Half Life