On page 5, we see that John is still referring to Mossberg as badge,
as he did 30+ years ago in
"Genesis & Revelations".
In this issue, we learn that a virus specific to Skynet technology
was written by Danny Dyson and deployed through John's plan to send
a compromised T-800 endoskeleton into the main Skynet complex in
Cheyenne Mountain. This is how Skynet is ultimately defeated (in
this timeline). In Dawn of Fate
(Timeline TT-1), Reese takes down Skynet
with multiple shots from a plasma rifle in a pitched battle.
As the T-800 John and Danny have nicknamed Rusty infiltrates the
Skynet annex and uploads Danny's virus on page 11, the words "Easy
Money" appear on the complex's computer terminals, suggesting this
may have been the name of the virus. The phrase was used by John a
couple of times in
Judgment Day and in a few
of the later novels.
During the virus transfer, John's narrative erroneously describes
Rusty as having "downloaded" Danny's precious virus into the Skynet
system. Rather, Rusty uploaded it. The source computer
uploads data; the destination computer downloads it.
Seemingly the same concrete block seen on page
11, panel 1, of "Suicide Mission"
is seen again here on page 15, panel 1. The rock and roll names of
Whale and Alanis Morisette (sic) are seen in the approximate same
location as in the aforementioned chapter. But the background is not
the same, as previously it was just a decimated cityscape and now is
the Skynet annex.
On page 14, panel 3, artist Gary Erskine's birth date is seen on a
concrete slab
(231068), as it is also in
"Suicide
Mission", "Dead Men Walking",
and
"The Programming of Fate".
The scene of Reese volunteering to go on the mission to 1984 is much
different than that seen in
"All My Futures Past" Part 2.
On page 18, John describes he and his mother, along with
other resistance fighters, when he was 18, storming one of
Skynet's slave labor camps where humans were used to
load
bodies into the incinerators. These camps were first
described in the novelization of
The Terminator. Since
he was 18 years old at the time, the year is most likely
2003 since he was born February 28, 1985.
During the flashback scene of the labor camp assault on page
19, John uses the phrase "Hasta la vista". This, of course,
is one of the phrases he taught the T-800 in 1995.
"Hasta la vista" means "good-bye" in Spanish.
Also during the flashback, as the prisoners escape the camp,
John sees a woman hugging a man and calling him Jonathan
Ellis Reese. John tries to catch up to them, but loses them
in the fleeing crowd. He doesn't know if they were Kyle
Reese's parents and, therefore, his grandparents. According
to the T2 Trilogy novel
The Future War,
Kyle's parents were Dennis and Mary Reese, so the Reese seen
here may be unrelated or a more distant relation.
On page 20, Kyle Reese is being rubbed down with conductance
jelly in preparation for his trip through time. This was
first described
in the novelization of
The Terminator and was
not seen at all in the version presented in
"All My Futures Past" Part 2.
On page 21, John tells Kyle that he always knew he would
volunteer for the the trip because Sarah had told him. This
was also revealed in the
Judgment Day novelization
(and implied in the novelization of
The Terminator). The
dialog of the scene in this issue is similar but not quite
the same as that in the novel.
The human resistance members are all seen to wear protective
goggles while observing Reese's chronoport.
On page 22, two resistance soldiers are identified as Nyberg
and Coffey. Nyberg is probably a reference to Nancy Nyberg,
who worked as Manager of Development at James Cameron's
Lightstorm Entertainment at the time this story was written.
Coffey is likely a nod to actor Michael Biehn's character of
US Navy SEAL Lieutenant Hiram Coffey in James Cameron's 1989
film The Abyss, especially as both are depicted
with a mustache.
Unanswered Questions
Was the man called
Jonathan Ellis Reese the father of Kyle Reese? If so, it
seems hard to reconcile that
The Future War has
Dennis Reese as his father instead. Maybe some unseen time
travel occurred in one of the timelines that resulted in the
parents of Jonathan/Dennis choosing one name over the other
(original timeline) one. Or maybe Jonathan is just Kyle's
uncle or something?
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