Terminators discover Sarah's Slammers' new base.
After the destruction of Home Base, the Sarah's Slammers
resistance cell moves into Third Base, the tunnels of an old
titanium mine. Meanwhile, Terminator
DIX-190 has made his way up from the Everglades and has
learned the location of Third Base from his captive,
Deffard. He sneaks into the base through an underwater
tunnel in
nearby Lake Okeechobee and sabotages the power throughout
the base's system. As the resistance members try to escape,
DIX-190 is able to take control of some old mining drones to
attack the fleeing humans. The humans manage to escape the
drones, only to face
DIX-190 and another Terminator,
JBH-311. The humans destroy
JBH-311 by dropping him into the mine's active rock crushing
machinery. Meanwhile, Konrad sends
DIX-190 plunging into a pit of water.
Didja Notice?
As this issue opens, Sarah's Slammers have established a new
home called Third Base inside the old mining tunnels of
Basinger Titanium Company, a subsidiary of Yominokum Mining
Corporation near Lake Okeechobee, Florida. The mining
companies appear to be fictitious, but
Lake Okeechobee is an actual lake in Florida, the largest
freshwater lake in the state.
On page 2, a member of Sarah's Slammers explains to Konrad
that Second Base was destroyed along with the rest of Miami
when they set off the nuke (in
"If I Had a Rocket Launcher").
DIX-190 seemingly travels all the way from the Everglades
(in "Goin' Back to Miami")
to Lake Okeechobee in the airboat, which I'm not sure is
possible over the terrain between the two locations! There
would have to be a water passage all the way between the two.
While on watch outside Third Base, Dwyer is singing, "Nine
thousand bottles of beer on the wall, nine
thousand bottles of beer..." This, of course, is an even
more exaggerated version of the lines from popular drinking
song "99 Bottles of Beer" in the U.S. and Canada, based on
the British song "Ten Green Bottles".
On page 4, Leahy informs Dwyer that an HK has been detected
about 50 klicks to the southeast. A klick is military slang
for "kilometer".
One of the Terminators piloting the HK on page 9 states they
are now en route to LZ. "LZ" is military shorthand for
"landing zone".
On page 9, panel 4, DIX-190 is mistakenly referred to as
DIX-90.
On pages 14-15, Skynet seems to be able to morph some "mining
drones" in the old mine tunnels into bizarre versions of
Terminators. The drones themselves seem to be much more
sophisticated than any that exist in the real world.
On page 15, Leahy fires at one of the attacking mining
drones, saying, "Don't even think about it, Robby." This is
a reference to Robby the Robot, the iconic robotic character
who first appeared in the 1956 film Forbidden Planet.
On page 21, Leahy refers to
DIX-190 as a 1000 Series Terminator! This was written before
Judgment Day was released, so it's obviously not a liquid
metal Terminator, just intended to be something more
sophisticated/powerful than the T-800 seen in
The Terminator (the
only example of Terminator that existed in the film franchise at
the time). As readers, we might think of the NOW Comics
series as existing in a timeline in which the liquid metal
T-1000 prototype was never invented by Skynet.
When Konrad sends
DIX-190 plunging into a deep pit on page 23,
DIX-190 screams "AAAAAAA!" has he falls!
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