CC,
Both shots are great the 1st is very subtle. I love the laser bolts, how did you get the point on the ends? If that is the quality of your production , producing a photonovel will be the best wa of improving your skills. Your images show great imagination and creativity, it would be so exciting to see a home grown novellist on this forum.
Your skills with photoshop are coming on with leaps and bounds and I am very impressed. The areas I've seen that I would work on are your definition of lettering and laser effects which is very simple to rectify, and lighting on your pasted figures, which is the hardest part to learn, but will come with practice.
If you go on SKYPE I'm there as Hangarbay94. my offer of a bit of free tuition and an exchange of ideas is open if you want it.