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Battlestar Galactica
"Counterstrike" Part 2
Battlestar Galactica (Classic) Vol. 4, #1
Dynamite Entertainment
Written by
John Jackson Miller
Art by Daniel
HDR
Letters by Taylor Esposito
Colors by Natalia Marques
Cover C by Sean Chen and Cris Peter
Published: 2018 |
When Commander Adama is given the chance to strike back at
the Cylons, will he do it?
Didja Know?
Battlestar Galactica (Classic) Volume 4 was a
6-issue mini-series published by Dynamite Entertainment in 2018-2019.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this issue
Commander Adama
Lucifer
Baltar
Apollo
Athena
Rigel
Omega
Starbuck
Boomer
Parrin
Grust
Colonel Tigh
Thane Korbok
Sheba
Didja Notice?
On page 3, Lucifer remarks that Baltar has
recently returned to the Cylons' service. This would imply the
story takes place not long after the events of
"There Will Be Blood",
at the end of which Baltar was rescued by the Cylons from his
maroonment on an uninhabited planet by Commander Adama.
On page 6, Parrin's Okaati vessel is docked
on top of
Galactica's starboard hangar bay, as the
ship is too large to fit inside the bay. This implies there is
an airlock on top of the bay at this location.

On page 10, Adama remarks to Parrin that
many of his fleet's ships are sublight-capable only. As
commented on in past studies, it would have been essentially
impossible for the fleet to escape the Twelve Colonies in the first
place unless each ship had faster-than-light capability. In
"The Last Hiding Place",
the fleet's master technician, Shadrack, completed converting
all fleet ships to FTL drives. In PopApostle's BSG chronology,
we might choose to modify Adama's comment here to say that some
of the fleet's ships have a slower FTL speed than others
(Adama's later comment, "...there's a limit to how much their
engines can be upgraded" helps to support this view).
On page 14, the name plate on
Galactica is suddenly depicted in the
font of the Battlestar Galactica logo, despite having been
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On page 15, Silver Spar squadron, led by
Sheba, returns from patrol just in time to find the
Comitat ships attacking the Okaati
fleet with the humans caught in the middle. She quips from her
Viper, "Let me guess. Did Starbuck annoy another alien
race?" I'm not sure we've seen Starbuck annoy an alien race
previously, though he's annoyed a human outpost or two the fleet
has encountered and had incensed the varied denizens of Scavenge
World after his escape from there in
"The Daring
Escape of the Space Cowboy" which led to a force of Scavenge
World fighter craft assailing the fleet to attain his capture for
execution. Perhaps it is this earlier story from the 1979-1981
Marvel Comics series that writer
John Jackson Miller is referring to, seeing as how he is
a fan of that early run.
On page 15, Commander Cain's name is
misspelled "Kane".
On page 18, Adama remarks that the Cylon war
began because humans freed the Hasari from them. This is
mentioned in passing in "Deathtrap".
Adama also mentions the fleet's encounter with the Ovions, which
took place in that same episode.
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