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Terminator
"Sand in the Gears" Part 2
Terminator: Salvation Movie Prequel #2 (IDW)
Written by Dara Naraghi
Pencil and inks by Alan Robinson
Cover A by Nick Runge, Retailer Incentive covers by
Klaus Scherwinski
February 2009 |
Jackson finally agrees to aid the Resistance in order to avenge his
family's death at the hands of Skynet.
Notes from the Terminator chronology
This mini-series takes place during the future war in 2018,
shortly before the events of Salvation.
Didja Notice?
On page 2, the driver of the resistance pick-up says, "Come
with us if you want to live, Jackson." Obviously, this is a
variation on the perennial "Come with me if you want to
live" line that has appeared in numerous Terminator
stories since the original 1984 film.
On page 9, Elena tells Jackson that generals
Ashdown and Losenko are going to be running an all-out
assault on Skynet in a few weeks. This is a reference of
events to come in Salvation, in which the two
generals appear.
On page 10, Elena tells Jackson that Skynet
took over an automobile plant there in Detroit years ago and
has been churning out T-600s ever since. By "years" she must
mean two, maybe three, years, since most of the (L.A.)
resistance members see T-600s for the first time in 2016 in
Machinima.
As the Terminators invade the Detroit
resistance base on page 13, William tells Elena he set an
EMP bomb to wipe out the remaining computers. EMP stands for
"electromagnetic pulse", which can be used to damage or
destroy most types of unshielded electronic devices.
On page 17, the pick-up truck driven by Keron
appears to be a Ford sixth generation F-series model from
around 1973.
On page 19, Yusuf has prepared a number of
rocket-propelled grenades that can be launched from a
standard RPG-7. The RPG-7 is a shoulder-launched anti-tank
rocket launcher manufactured by the Russian company
Bazalt
since 1961.
On page 20, a Casca (sic) C-295 Spanish
military tactical transport plane drops some special cargo
to the resistance at In Guezzam, Algeria near the border
with Niger. The Casa C-295 is a real world tactical
transport plane manufactured by the Spanish company
Airbus Defence and Space. The lat/long coordinates given
for In Guezzam are roughly accurate.
In panel 3 of page 20, a few of the stars in
the night sky are overlapping the hills in the distance!
On page 22, Bem appears to be wielding an AK-47 machine gun.
The AK-47 is a Russian automatic rifle
designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov in 1947.
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