John comes under suspicion when the resistance cell discovers that
Uncle Bob is a Terminator.
Didja Notice?
The Pat Lee cover of this issue features Tara Holden with a
tattoo of the Latin words Semper fidelis and the
letters USMC. USMC stands for the United States Marine Corps
and
Semper fidelis is their motto, meaning "Always
faithful". The woman is carrying an M16 rifle. Spray-painted
on the wall behind her are the words "No fate", from the
phrase "No fate but what we make" quoted by Kyle Reese to
Sarah Connor from the words of John Connor in 2029 as
related in
Judgment Day.
At the beginning of the issue, John's resistance cell
appears to be meeting in a diner to discuss their options.
This is probably Milly's Grill, glimpsed briefly in
"Infinity" Part 3.
As they prepare to leave
Albuquerque, Tara tells John they'll head to Fort Garland
and then on to Denver. Fort Garland is a small town in Colorado
and Denver is the capital of the state.
On page 10, Tara's resistance cell is seen sporting at least
one Humvee. The
word stands for High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle,
manufactured by AM General mostly for the U.S. military.
Also on page 10, John tells Tara, "This could be the start
of a beautiful friendship." This is a famous quote from the
end of the 1942 film Casablanca.
After unlocking the second gate to Skynet's Denver
stronghold, Uncle Bob tells the resistance soldiers to wait
for the anti-rad scouring agent to clear. "Anti-rad" is
short for "anti-radiation".
On page 19, the T-Infinity identifies the Uncle Bob
Terminator as unit #675/45.
As John approaches the scene of the battle between Uncle Bob
and the T-Infinity on the last panel of page 21, he is
behind the T-Infinity as it stands over Uncle Bob's body.
But on the splashpage of page 22, he is suddenly in front of
the T-Infinity standing over Uncle Bob's body!
On the "Dynamite Dispatches" letters and announcements page
of this issue, the editor responds to a letter by mentioning
the upcoming (in 2007) comic book crossover of
Terminator and Painkiller Jane and another
crossover coming in 2008 "that's sure to keep people
talking". No crossover occurred in 2008. It's possible this
is a reference to the Terminator/Robocop
crossover that was later published by them in 2011.
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