Cyborg Superman and the Terminatrix set their sites on John
Connor.
The future scenes of this mini-series take place in 2032.
The back cover of each issue features a digitized version of
Superman's "S" shield. On each subsequent cover, the shield
becomes more digitally distorted.

Didja Notice?
2032: On page 1, Sky-1 tells the captured Superman and Steel
the neural probes they are now undergoing will drain every
last byte of data from their minds, serving the purpose of
hastening the Omega Point, when machine rule will hold sway
over the Earth and all human life is cleansed. This is
apparently Skynet's version of
Omega Point. In the real world, the Omega Point has been
used by some to describe a spiritual final point of divine
unification of the universe. The term has also been used for
the technological singularity, where the invention of true
artificial intelligence will trigger vast technological
growth that will transform human civilization, possibly
ending it.
2032: On page 2, Sky-1 goes on to say that after the
domination of Earth, machine intelligence will spread out
into the galaxy, and even the entire universe.
A similar hypothetical launching of Terminator spaceships
from Earth to explore and conquer the cosmos is seen in
"Robocop versus the Terminator" Part 3.
2032: On page 2, Steel seems to think that the Kryptonite
ray with which Sky-1 hit Superman at the end of
"Death to the Future" Part 2
was generated with synthetic kryptonite.
2000: The Terminators that begin appearing on page 3 to
battle Supergirl, have some kind of anti-gravity apparatus
emerging from their backs, welded onto their endoskeletons
through the human tissue layer. But how were they able to
make the time displacement jump with unsheathed metal on
them?!
2000: Page 6, panel 3 shows a billboard for an art exhibit
of Utagawa Toyokuni at the Conalbert Museum.
Utagawa Toyokuni (1769-1825) was a Japanese woodblock
artist. The Conalbert Museum is fictitious as far as I can
tell.
2032: On page 7, Steel uses voice activation on his kinetic
hammer and muses on the anti-grav motor with which he had it
fitted. In the mainstream DC Universe, Steel's hammer does
have both voice activation and anti-grav capability.
2032: Using his hammer to break himself free, Steel then
frees Superman, saying, "...let's get you away from that
K!" Here, "K" stands for Kryptonite.
2000: On page 11, John Connor is using a pay phone at the Choke St.
subway station, next to a fenced lot under construction by
TransCo Construction.
TransCo appears to be a fictitious construction company.
2032: As the Resistance around the world battles and defeats
the machine menace once and for all on page 19, we see the
Eiffel
Tower in
Paris, France and
Big Ben in
London,
England in panel 1.
2032: In panel 4 of page 19, one of the humans who has
emerged from their hiding hole after the Resistance victory
against the machines is carrying a flag on a pole that
appears to have the image of a football on it!
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