The Terminators assist Dr. Hollister with his research for
Project Bellerophon...and are surprised at what they find.
Didja Notice?
On page 3, the Terminators have a pink
Buick station wagon.
Looks approximately
like
a 1958 model.
On page 5, panel 2, notice that Bart is making plastique
pipe bombs in a manner similar to that used by Reese in
The Terminator.
On page 6, Mary reveals Cyberdyne's Project Bellerophon
to be the initiative that perfected artificial intelligence
sometime before 1993, leading to Skynet. This project is not
mentioned by name in the 1991 film
Terminator 2:
Judgment Day, but it may still be considered a
precursor to Dr. Miles Dyson's work as portrayed in that
film. On page 7, C890.L states to Dr. Hollister that he is
"the most likely candidate to effectively design an
artificial intelligence network," implying they are not
absolutely positive it will be Hollister who does it. In
"Tempest"
Part 4, I825.M even declares that Hollister is not necessary so
long as the Terminator debris remains available for study by
any suitably educated person.
In this version of the Terminator timeline, it seems that
the police picked up the remains of the Terminator destroyed
by Reese and Sarah at the end of
The Terminator as
evidence. In addition, Dr. Hollister states that he does not
know where the police found it, which suggests it may not
have been at a Cyberdyne factory as hinted in
Judgment
Day (though the Judgment
Day novelization
states that Sarah crushed the Terminator at a factory of
Kleinhaus Electronics and two employees, Greg Simmons and
Jack Kroll, found the debris and made off with it in order
to later found Cyberdyne themselves shortly after). Dr. Hollister
states he only got to examine the debris for a short
time before having to return it to police, but his current work on
Project Bellerophon is based on the tests and notes he took
while it was in his possession.
Page 10 depicts a Los Angeles police station, described as
police headquarters on page 12. The same plaza is depicted
in "The Enemy Within" Part 1 by a different artist,
suggesting it's an actual location, but it does not appear to be
Parker Center, which was the LAPD Headquarters from
1954-2009.
On page 16, Raul refers to the Terminator chasing him and
his colleagues as craneo de acero. This is Spanish for
"steel skull".
On page 19, C890.L takes off on Astin's motorcycle after the
resistance house blows up. I guess Astin was in such a hurry
to seek help from the resistance members he left his keys in
the ignition.
After C850.D steals the portable
evidence locker form LAPD
headquarters, the Terminators and
Dr. Hollister open it, revealing the
complete debris of the T-800 from
The Terminator,
including not just the arm (as seen
in Judgment
Day) but the
flattened skull and many other
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