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"Gods & Monsters" Part 3
Battlestar Galactica: Gods &
Monsters #3
Dynamite Entertainment
Written by Karl Kesel
Art by Dan Schkade
Color by Chris O'Halloran
Letters by Tom Napolitano
Cover A by Alec Morgan &
Chris O'Halloran
2016
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Tallos is put to the test.
Story Summary
On Caprica, the Buccaneers chase Simon to
New Atlas Arena, their former home stadium, only to find it is
now a Cylon base. They retreat to return with a full force to
attack the site and blow up the stadium. Simon finds he doesn't
like the way his Cylon cohorts are treating him after his
undercover role amongst the humans and he uses the confusion
caused by the resistance attack to escape the base himself. He
is captured again by Barolay and he makes a deal with Anders to
act as their medic again in exchange for his life; he doesn't
want to go back to his Cylon friends.
In the rag-tag fleet, Baltar prepares Tallos for its upcoming
mining work on the planetoid. During a preparatory data upload,
Tallos discovers a hidden message from
Caprica-Valerii to help her escape from the brig and protect her
unborn baby. But Tallos recognizes that the message was not
recorded by the same Valerii and proves it to his human masters.
Meanwhile, Fleet Cavil and Fleet Eight discuss their deception
attempt against Tallos. Upset that the plan didn't work out,
Cavil orders Fleet Eight to kill herself, sending her soul to resurrect where she
can reveal the location of the fleet to its Cylon pursuers.
CONTINUED IN BSG: GODS & MONSTERS #4
Didja Know?
Battlestar Galactica: Gods & Monsters was a
5-issue mini-series published by Dynamite Entertainment in
2016-2017.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this story
Sam Anders
Jean Barolay
Kripke
Simon
O'Neill (Number Four model Cylon)
Caprica Six
Caprica Cavil
Aaron Doral (Number Five)
Baltar
Tallos
Commander Adama
Colonel Tigh
Caprica-Valerii
Buccaneers
Helo
Apollo
Starbuck
President Roslin
Fleet Cavil
Fleet Eight
Boomer (mentioned only, deceased)
Didja Notice?
In this issue, the Buccaneers find their old stadium now turned
into a Cylon base. Anders refers to the stadium as
"New Atlas Arena".
Anders laments that he never led the team to a championship.
This is mentioned later in "Daybreak" Part 1.
On page 15, Anders agrees to Simon's deal to continue to act as
medic for the Buccaneers, arguing with Kripke, "...it's the
devil we know!" On Earth, the idiom "Better the devil you know
than the devil you don't know" is an old Irish proverb dating
back to at least the 16th Century.
Fleet Cavil remarks that the humans thinks of the Number Eight
models has having suicidal tendencies thanks to the suicide
attempt of a previous eight some time earlier. This was Boomer,
who made a failed attempt at suicide in
"Kobol's Last Gleaming"
Part 1. Cavil is right, as Apollo mentions Boomer's suicide
attempt after Fleet Eight's body is found in
"Gods & Monsters" Part 4.
The last page of the issue implies that Fleet Eight resurrects
aboard a Cylon baseship instead of a Resurrection Ship. This
should not be possible, as the TV series depicted the Cylons
only able to download their consciousness to the
Resurrection Hub, a Resurrection Ship, or a planet-based
Resurrection facility. For purposes of continuity, we might
pretend a Resurrection Ship is depicted on this last page of the
issue.