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"Gods & Monsters" Part 2
Battlestar Galactica: Gods &
Monsters #2
Dynamite Entertainment
Written by Karl Kesel
Art by Alec Morgan & Dan Schkade
Color by Chris O'Halloran
Letters by Tom Napolitano
Cover A by Alec Morgan &
Chris O'Halloran
2016
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Commander Adama finds a use for Baltar's
pet centurion.
Story Summary
When Tallos appears ready to follow and protect
Caprica-Valerii, Baltar disables the Centurion temporarily with a kill
switch he wears like a watch on his wrist. Meanwhile, D'Anna is afraid
Tallos will be able to identify her as a Cylon as it did
Valerii.
As Commander Adama considers allowing Tallos to mine the
planetoid to speed up the harvesting, the Galactica
discovers a drifting, old
Colonial heavy cruiser, Cyclops, from the first Cylon
War, its radioactive hulk on an immediate collision course with
the planetoid. Adama decides to allow Baltar to send Tallos to
Cyclops to prevent the crash. It succeeds by blowing up
the derelict in space.
Meanwhile, on Cylon-occupied Caprica, Anders interrogates Simon,
getting nowhere, so he allows Barolay to administer her own
"enhanced interrogation". But Brother Cavil intervenes during a
respite for the prisoner, allowing Simon to escape.
CONTINUED IN BSG: GODS & MONSTERS #3
Didja Know?
Battlestar Galactica: Gods & Monsters was a
5-issue mini-series published by Dynamite Entertainment in
2016-2017.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this story
Colonel Tigh
Baltar
Caprica-Valerii
Tallos
Commander Adama
President Roslin
Apollo
D'Anna Biers
Head Six
Starbuck
John Cavil
Sam Anders
Simon O'Neill (Number Four model Cylon)
Jean Barolay
Lt. Gaeta
Redwing
Dee
Spyver
Didja Notice?
On page 6, Anders recalls the last game the Buccaneers played
before the Cylon attack, against the Aerilon Longhorns. This is
the first and only mention of the
Longhorns.
On page 9, Cavil jokes with Anders, "Before you know it, people
will be convinced both of us are Cylons!" Of course,
they both are, though Anders doesn't know it yet (Cavil does).
On the last panel of page 9, Cavil answers Anders' query of
"What would I do without you?" with "Oh, you probably would've
beaten the Cylons months ago...", subtly indicating that he
(Cavil) has been steering Anders and the Buccaneers wrong during
the months of resistance against the Cylon occupation of
Caprica.
After talking about the Cylons with Commander Adama on page 10,
when Lt. Gaeta reports a sudden dradis contact, Colonel Tigh
spurts, "Say Hecate's name--!" in much the same way we might say
"Speak of the devil". In
"Pilot" Part 1 of the
Caprica TV
series, Hecate is said to be the goddess of the underworld. On
Earth, Hecate was the Greek and Roman goddess of crossroads, the
Moon, and witchcraft, whose abode was the underworld.
On page 11, Adama tells Tigh and Gaeta it's time to "roll a hard
six". Adama (and those close to him) have used this term a
number of times in past stories, something
his father used to say when he was about to make his closing
argument on a tough case. "Roll the hard six" is a phrase
originating in the dice game of craps; it refers to rolling
threes on a pair of 6-sided dice.
A Raptor pilot called Redwing is introduced (chronologically) in this issue.
He goes on to appear in "Exodus" Part 2 and a few other
episodes.
At the planetoid, the fleet encounters the drifting hulk of the
Colonial heavy cruiser Cyclops, left over from the
first Cylon War.
On page 19, Cavil refers to the beating Simon takes at the hands
of Barolay as "enhanced interrogation". This is a reference to
the "enhanced interrogation techniques",
considered torture by many, of the U.S. government employed under
the administration of President George W. Bush after the 9-11
terrorist attacks against the U.S.
On page 20, panel 3, the first dialog balloon seems to have
erroneously been given to Baltar instead of D'Anna.
On the last page of this issue, Cavil remarks that a centurion
like Tallos without the programmed Cylon protocols isn't "part
of the plan". This refers to the larger Cylon plan as later
revealed in The Plan.