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"Gods & Monsters" Part 5
Battlestar Galactica: Gods &
Monsters #5
(Dynamite)
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
2017
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The Cylons attack the fleet, but whose side
will Tallos be on?
Story Summary
As the fleet comes under attack by the Cylons, an evac Raptor is
sent down to the planetoid for Apollo, Helo, Baltar, and Tallos,
but Tallos tosses out the pilot and leaves the humans stranded.
With all other pilots now engaged in the space battle, Adama is
forced to allow
Caprica-Valerii to take a remaining Raptor down to rescue his
son and the others.
On Caprica,
Simon begins to sabotage the resistance supplies and the
capricious
Caprica-Cavil leads him to a presumably short-lived period of
torture at the humans' hands.
As the fleet's space battle continues, a new type of Cylon ship
enters the fray and disgorges hundreds of centurions, which
magnetize themselves to the hull of
Galactica and plant explosive charges. As Tallos
arrives in the battle zone in the stolen Raptor, Starbuck
destroys the vessel, but Tallos ejects and latches onto the top
of her Viper. Tallos points towards the
Galactica, and the angry Starbuck heads for it,
flying upside-down to the battlestar's hull and scrapes the
centurion off, but ruining the Viper in the process, stripping
off a wing, the tailfin, and the cockpit canopy. But Tallos
still survives the beating, minus an arm, and indicates to the
other centurions on the hull to follow it, leading them to the
FTL drive.
Baltar reverses the polarity of the drive to fling the metal
centurions back out into space, where they are destroyed by
their own explosive charges. Tallos' head is recovered and put
on display, but it is arguable whether the reprogrammed
centurion was trying to guide the Cylons to the FTL drive to
destroy it and cripple the
Galactica or to put them into the perfect
position for Baltar to fling them into space.
THE END
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
Apollo
Helo
Baltar
Tallos (destroyed in this issue)
Redshirt
Starbuck
Commander Adama
Colonel Tigh
Lt. Gaeta
Dee
Simon
O'Neill (Number Four model Cylon)
Samuel Anders
Caprica-Cavil
Jean Barolay
Caprica-Valerii
Kripke
President Roslin
Head Six
D'Anna Biers
Fleet-Cavil
Didja Notice?
This issue is the first appearance of a nugget Viper pilot
called
Redshirt. Most likely the name was inspired by the red-shirted
security personnel of the original Star Trek TV series
who were often the unfortunate victims of the "threat of the
week" in episodes. The character seen here is depicted later in
the issue wearing a red shirt (and also sports a mohawk).
On page 3, Starbuck objects to being called "ma'am".
On page 6,
Caprica-Cavil refers to the "good Samaritan". It seems slightly
odd, in a Colonial context, to refer to a Samaritan, as the term
is derived from the Hebrew religious group that appears in the
Talmud.
A previously unseen and unidentified type of Cylon
vessel is seen in this issue. It ejects hundreds of
centurions into space to attach magnetic explosive
charges on the hull of Galactica. |
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On page 11, panel 1, Caprica-Cavil's word balloon has the word
has the word "radiation" misspelled as "radition".
In panel 1 of page 11, notice that a bottle sits on a cabinet
top. This is the bottle
Caprica-Cavil uses on page 12 to bash Simon on the head with.
On page 14, Gaeta announces that dradis console registers a
Colonial ship entering the BZ. "BZ" is shorthand for "battle
zone".
On page 16, after scraping Tallos off her Viper against the hull
of Galactica, Starbuck finds the centurion still
functioning and remarks, "Takes a lickin'--keeps on tickin'!"
The phrase "Takes a Licking and keeps on Ticking" was a
well-known advertising slogan for Timex watches in the 1960s and
'70s.
Page 19 reveals that Tallos' damaged metal head has been put on
display in an area of the
Galactica.
The last page of the issue reveals that the screening room used
by the Cylons aboard the
Galactica is actually the ship's chapel.