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"Whiskey Dark"
The Terminator #4
Dynamite Entertainment
Writer: Declan Shalvey
Artist: Lorenzo Re
Colorist: Colin Craker
Letterer: Jeff Eckleberry
Cover A: Declan Shalvey
January
2025 |
In 1961, a Russian submarine carries a valuable cargo from
the future.
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Notes from the Terminator chronology
This story takes place in 1961 in the Baltic Sea.
The PopApostle Terminator chronology has placed the
overarching storyline of the 10-issue The Terminator limited
series of 2024-2025 by Dynamite Entertainment in
Timeline TT-2.
Didja Know?
The Terminator limited series
of 2024-2025 was published by Dynamite Entertainment and was
composed of 10 issues, telling a series of stand-alone 1- or
2-part stories set in different time periods that are revealed
to be part of the larger 10-issue arc.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this issue
Captain Masha Alekseev (dies in this issue)
S-353 crew (die in this issue)
Volkov (dies in this issue)
T-800
Dimitri (die in this issue)
Didja Notice?
The story opens with the private journal entry of Captain
Masha Alekseev in command of the Whiskey-class
Soviet submarine S-353.
Whiskey-class are an actual class of Soviet
diesel-electric attack submarines built from about
1950-1960. The S-353 appears to be fictitious.
Captain Alekseev records that the S-353 has picked up their
latest cargo and its courier operating from Gdansk and now
en route to St. Petersburg. He notes the courier is
emotionless and lacks humanity, even for KGB.
Gdansk
is a city on the Baltic coast of Poland.
St. Petersburg
is a Russian city at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the
Baltic Sea.
The KGB was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from
1954-1991.
The "cargo" in possession of Volkov
which the
S-353 is to deliver to Russia is seen to be a CPU microchip
from a Terminator (as first seen by fans in
Judgment Day). The
origina of this particular CPU will be revealed in "The
Engine". "CPU"
stands for Central Processing Unit.
On page 15, seeing the Terminator and its deadly actions,
one of the sub's crewmembers says, "Bozhe moy..."
This is Russian for "My god..."
On page 20, nyet is Russian for "no".
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