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"Goin' Back to Miami"
Terminator #6
NOW Comics
Written by Jack Herman
Illustrated by Thomas Tenney
Inked by Jim Brozman
Cover by Corey Wilkinson
March 1989 (the issue is mistakenly dated 1988 in the
indicia) |
Two Terminators guarding a prisoner in a run-down Everglades
cabin attempt to hold off a platoon of human resistance
soldiers.
Story Summary
In a run-down Everglades cabin, two Terminators guard a
Resistance prisoner named Deffard. But a human Resistance
platoon is attacking from outside, determined to either save
or kill the prisoner in order to prevent his knowledge from
falling into the hands of Skynet. After an assault that
results in the loss of several men, the troop leader decides
they must kill Deffard after all and a grenade is tossed
into the small cabin. It goes off and the troops move in to
confirm the kill, but find the cabin empty. The Terminators
and their prisoner have hidden themselves in a small
compartment under the floorboards. Just then, another
Terminator zooms into the battle zone on an airboat, making
short work of the remaining humans.
The third Terminator tells the first two to head to the
pre-arranged zone where an HK will pick them up. The third
Terminator stays behind at the cabin to interrogate Deffard
for information. He gets what he wants, the current location
of Sarah's Slammers, and takes off again in the airboat,
with Deffard tied and held prisoner aboard.
CONTINUED IN TERMINATOR #7
Didja Know?
The title of this issue was probably borrowed from the 1965
song of the same name by soul singer Wayne Cochran.
Notes from the Terminator chronology
This issue takes place six weeks after the events of
"If I Had a Rocket
Launcher".
Characters appearing or mentioned in this issue
Hansen's 3rd De-Mechanized Infantry Battalion
Deffard R.97143
Schroeder
Dante
Monroe
Taylor
Grippit
Dann
Zucker
Skynet
DIX-190 (not identified until
"In the Belly of the Beast")
Tim Reese
Konrad
Commander Leahy
Sarah's Slammers (mentioned only)
Didja Notice?
The font used for the word "Miami" on the title page of this
issue is similar to that used as part of the logo of the hit
1984-1989 TV series Miami Vice.
This issue takes place in the Florida Everglades, the
tropical wetlands covering the southern tip of the state.
The Terminators in this issue (and many subsequent ones)
show a wide range of emotions and personalities, unlike the
T-800 in The Terminator
or in later-produced media from other licensed companies.
The brown-haired Terminator helping to guard Deffard in the cabin
looks as if he may be wearing a Kiss tank top under his
leather jacket. Kiss is a legendary American hard rock band
formed in 1973 and still playing today, though not with all
the original members.
Although there's plenty of violence in this issue, including
a Terminator ripping out a guy's heart, there's no swearing.
Even the word "hell" is spelled "he--" here!
When a lone Terminator shows up on an airboat to reinforce
the two guarding Deffard in the cabin, the Resistance troop
leader refers to it as the Lone Ranger (proper designation
DIX-190, as revealed later in
"In the Belly of the Beast").
The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked
Texas Ranger of the American old west who has become an
American icon.
DIX-190 informs the other two Terminators guarding
Deffard that the human attack they just survived was
made up of survivors of Hansen's Third De-Mechanized Infantry Battalion
out of
Orlando. A mechanized infantry is one that uses armored
personnel carriers and armored combat vehicles. There is no
such term as "de-mechanized infantry" in the military, even
if it's an infantry not using such armored vehicles. The
troops of Hansen's Third are seen on foot the entire time,
so it may be that the name of the battalion (actually a
Resistance cell) is an ironic one, indicating they do not
have access to or fuel for such luxuries as armored carriers.
On page 20, Konrad tells Tim that the lunar base has
children living there as well and that they even have a
Little League team.
Little League is a non-profit organization in the United
States (with some international chapters...and now,
apparently, a lunar one!) for local youth baseball and
softball leagues.
Tim is wearing an Ace's Comet t-shirt on page 20. This is a
reference to Frehley's Comet, a hard rock band fronted by
former Kiss lead guitarist Ace Frehley. I'm guessing artist Thomas Tenney
must have been a Kiss fan what with the two references in
the art this issue.
On page 21, DIX-190, who lost the flesh on his left
hand during the battle on page 18, cuts the skin off the
left hand of one of the fallen humans and pulls it on over
his mechanical one like a glove!
DIX-190 seeks information from Deffard about
Sarah's Slammers, who hit the flesh farm "six weeks ago."
This refers to events in
"If I Had a Rocket
Launcher".
Deffard states that Home Base of Sarah's Slammers is (was)
located 55 miles due west of Miami.
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