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"Aliens versus Predator versus the Terminator" Part 2
Aliens versus Predator versus the Terminator #2
Dark
Horse Comics
Writer: Mark Schultz
Penciler: Mel Rubi
Inker: Christopher Ivy
Colorist: David Stewart
Letterer: Pat Brosseau
Cover by Dwayne Turner
May 2000 |
An alien-android Terminator escapes from Typhoon
station with alien samples.
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complete summary of the mini-series at the Terminator Wiki
Notes from the Terminator chronology
This story takes place not long after the events of
the 1997 film Alien: Resurrection (approximately
2381).
Characters appearing or mentioned in this issue
Ripley 8
Annalee Call
Voorman
Blades
alien-android hybrid 1
Dr. Trollenberg (mentioned only, destroyed)
Fender (mentioned only, deceased)
John Connor (as a computer sleeper virus only)
Skynet (mentioned only)
Captain Usher (name raveled in the next issue)
alien-android hybrid 2 (seen here, revealed as an
alien-android hybrid in the next issue)
Didja Notice?
The creature seen in a liquid-filled containment tube on
page 1, panel 1 is a facehugger, part of the lifecycle of the
alien xenomorphs. More contained facehuggers are seen on
page 8.
On page 8, the alien-android hybrid smashes a liquid-filled
containment tube containing embryos of alien xenomorphs. He
places at least two of them in a metal cylinder and seals it
for transportation.
Aboard the escape pod on page 11, the alien-android hybrid
cuts open one of the alien embryos in order to remove its
spine. But shouldn't the embryo's acidic blood have eaten
through the dissecting tray and table and the pod's hull as soon
as it was cut open? All forms of the xenomorph lifecycle
have extremely acidic blood, able to eat almost instantly
through metal.
The alien-android hybrid is also seen to have an non-conscious body aboard the pod for experimentation
which is later revealed to be an android in
"Aliens versus Predator versus the
Terminator" Part 3. How did the
body get there? We did not see him take it into the escape
pod with him on page 8. I suppose it could have happened
between panels, but it seems like sloppy storytelling.
On page 12, the sleeper virus in Trollenberg's programming
tells Call that John Connor recorded his viral message in
2035.
| Some unusual Hunter-Killer vehicles are seen
in the vision of the machine war John shows Call on pages
13-14. |
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On page 18, Voorman gives the opinion that the John Connor
message in the sleeper virus is a deke. "Deke" is a Canadian
term for fake (short for decoy, originating in Canadian ice
hockey).
On page 21, a Predator cuts Ripley 8's arm, revealing her to
have acid blood. This was first seen in Alien:
Resurrection.
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