The assembled Connor family of past and future faces a showdown with
the T-Infinity and the Dire Wolf.
The header of the mini-series reads, "Continuing the T2
saga..." even though it takes place after the events of
T3: Rise of the Machines.
Didja Notice?
2015: On page 5, for Operation Sidearm, Tara tells her
troops to move in on their targets at 2015 hours, with the
main strike at 2100. This is, of course, military time for
8:15 PM and 9:00 PM.
2015:
On page 6, a resistance member is seen with a tattoo on his
arm that appears to be the Three Stars and a Sun symbol of
the flag of the Philippines. Another resistance member
wearing a bandanna with the symbol is seen on page 16.
1996: During the attack on the Bluff Creek shack by the
T-Infinity, both Johns appear to be armed with an M16 rifle
(though big John's rifle has the optional grenade launcher
attached below the rifle barrel).
2015:
Page 15 depicts the various Resistance squads prepping their
assaults in seven different cities and towns in New York and
Pennsylvania. They are all real world locations.
2015:
On page 15, panel 6, one of the resistance members is
wearing a vest with the name Binay on the back of it. This
may be a reference to the Binay political family in the
Philippines, as artist Lui Antonio is Filipino.
1996: On page 17, young Kyle Reese appears to be armed with
an M134 Minigun
(the massive six-barreled machine gun the protector
Terminator finds in the bunker at Enrique's compound, and
later uses at Cyberdyne, in
Judgment Day).
1996: On page 17, how is it that Kyle appears to be wearing
the same shirt he was wearing in 2015 when he chronoported
to 1996 with the Dire Wolf? All of his clothing should have
been stripped away by the transport process!
1996: On page 19, Kyle says the Dire Wolf led him right to
Sarah and the two Johns, implying he followed the T-Dog. It
seems unlikely a human would be able to follow a rushing
Terminator for any real distance without getting left far
behind, especially considering they had to trek out into the
middle of a swamp!
1996: On page 19, big John refers to the shattered
T-Infinity as Humpty-Dumpty, hoping he can put enough of it
back together to access its time circuits and chronoport he
and Kyle back to the future. Humpty Dumpty is a character,
usually depicted as an egg, in an English nursery rhyme
since the 18th Century. Currently, the most well-known
version of the rhyme goes: "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and
all the king's men, Couldn't put Humpty together again."
2015: On page 20, panel 1, a notepad or something has a
header of Smart Bro printed on it. Smart Bro is a nickname
for Smart Broadband, a subsidiary of
Smart Communications, a mobile phone and internet
service provider in the Philippines.
On page 22, panel 4, a woman in a new, human-dominated
timeline is seen wearing a shirt with the phrase
Fully-Booked on it and another woman is holding a crate of
goods, including a can with "Alaska" printed on its label.
These may be references to the
Fully Booked chain of bookstores and the Alaska Milk
Corporation, both located in the Philippines.
In the final panel of the issue, John acknowledges that,
despite the second chance he has won for the human race in
2015, in his gut, he knows that elsewhere/when, the war goes
on. The panel presents a resistance squad fighting against
Terminators; a man with a patch over his right eye, shooting
at the enemy, may be intended as John Connor himself.
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