Characters appearing or mentioned in this story

 

Griff Tannen

Marty McFly

Doc Brown

Jennifer Parker

Commissioner Wilson

Needles (mentioned only)

Clara

Jules

Verne

Einstein

Lorraine McFly

George McFly

 

Didja Notice?

 

On the standard cover for this issue, the cop is writing Doc and Marty a citation for speeding and "outatime"!

 

On page 3, Griff calls Marty a bojo. This slang term was also used by Griff's gang in Back to the Future Part II.

 

On page 5, Marty finds the old temporal field generator mark II that Doc built and briefly used in "The Doc Who Never Was".

 

When Marty asks if the old temporal field generator has likely stored up enough juice to get them back to 1986, Doc responds, "Did Ewald Jurgen Georg von Kleist develop the Leyden jar in 1745?" Kleist (1700-1748) was a German cleric and physicist who invented the Leyden jar, a type of battery capable of storing a large amount of charge, in 1745.

 

On page 6, a police officer warns Commissioner Wilson that Zazzit will give them an "unlike". Zazzit appears to be a fictitious social networking website (Commissioner Wilson refers to it as a "feedsite"). The slang term "zazz" has been used in previous issues in scenes set in the year 2035.

 

Commissioner Wilson is likely a descendant of Goldie Wilson, introduced in Back to the Future.

 

When the flame-thrower armed Griff tells Marty he hopes he's ready to go out in a blaze of glory, Marty hits him in the head with some flaming debris and says, "I'm more Clint Eastwood than Butch and Sundance." Marty is referring to the classic 1969 Western film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, at the end of which the famous outlaws refuse to surrender and run, guns blazing, into a firing squad of soldiers. Butch and Sundance were real life Western outlaws of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries who are said to have died in a manner similar to that depicted in the film. Clint Eastwood, of course, is the legendary American actor of many Western films whom Marty loosely based himself on in Back to the Future Part III.

 

Page 8 is reprinted from "Continuum Conundrum" Part 4, with Marty's voiceover added in panel 1.

 

On page 10, Griff uses the 2035 slang term "zong", saying, "I'm gonna pound you into a zongin' smear for resisting arrest."

 

In this issue, the second DeLorean introduced in "Continuum Conundrum" Part 1 is finally converted into a time machine.

 

On page 15, an unnamed man recognizes Doc as the guy who bounced him in the park. This occurred in "Continuum Conundrum" Part 5.

 

On page 17, the word "reclamation" on the "Sewage Reclamation Project" sign is misspelled "recalamation".

 

On page 18, Griff crashes the squad car into a tank full of sewage, similar to how past Tannens have ended their McFly-chases covered in manure.

 

    Ugh, I hate it when the writers start to get sloppy. On page 21, Jennifer tells Marty there's a preview of a new Clint Eastwood film at the Cinedome the next day. There were no Clint Eastwood films that would have been available for "preview" in March 1986. His most recent film, Pale Rider, had already been released in June 1985. His next film, Heartbreak Ridge, was still in pre-production and wouldn't be released until December 1986. I guess Doc and Marty's alteration of the timeline prior to this somehow caused Eastwood's production schedule to change!

    Cinedome is a loose chain of movie theaters, generally constructed with a domed roof and curved walls.

 

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