In the year 2029, John Connor must determine how he is to save
humanity as foretold by his own father in 1984.
In this particular post-T2: Judgment Day timeline, Judgment
Day still occurs on August 29, 1997, even though Miles Dyson
did not perfect the Skynet microchip in this version of the
chronology. John and Sarah had come to the realization that
the path leading to Skynet could still happen without Dyson
in
"Judgment Impaired".
Here we see that the remaining Dyson family and Detective
Mossberg, who remained part of the Connor crew at the end of
"No Fate", are still
with them as they emerge from underground years after
Judgment Day.
The Connor crew appear to be carrying M16 rifles.
John muses on how his mother's survivalist friends probably
felt relieved when Judgment Day arrived, having expected
some kind of apocalypse all along and no longer thought
crazy for believing it.
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On page 11, we see the adult John
Connor in what appears to be the
follow-up to his 2029 scene from the
beginning of
Judgment Day. Notice the
side- and background views are very
similar to those seen in the film.
However, the novelization of Judgment Day
states that this scene occurs during
the resistance's final defeat of
Skynet, while here it is merely a
scene shortly before one that
suggests that Skynet has just
implemented a chronoportation,
possibly the first T-800 seen in
The
Terminator.
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On page 12, the adult John muses on how the particular group
of soldiers in the future war seen here took their names
from their favorite fictitious platoon. This platoon is
called Bravo Company, presumably derived from the one in the
1986 film, Platoon.
On page 13, one of John's men states that the
Terminators
that have lost power and become frozen in their tracks
may be the
ones that were in "hive" mode. An editor's note speculates that
hive mode is a collective consciousness, while independent
mode Terminators are self-sufficient but programmed to
return and download information. Writer Paniccia probably
based this scene on the
autonomous Terminators programmed to roam and seek out human
targets for elimination mentioned on page 16 of the
Judgment Day novelization.
This issue reveals that Miles Dyson's role in the creation
of Skynet is known to the human resistance in general, even
in this timeline where Miles gave up his life in an attempt
to prevent it.
Page 17 reveals that Danny Dyson still lives in 2029 and is
John's closest friend.
The Terminator skull in Danny's lab at the end of the issue
is presumably the same one that John shows to Sarah at the
end of "No Fate".
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