Battlestar Galactica 2
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| Issue 2 An issue of the Dynamite first series. | ||
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| Issue No. | 2 | |
| Writer(s) | Greg Pak | |
| Illustrator(s) | {{{illustrator}}} | |
| Penciller(s) | Nigel Raynor | |
| Inker(s) | Nigel Raynor | |
| Colorist(s) | Nigel Raynor | |
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| Collection Design | {{{designer}}} | |
| Cover Artist(s) | Giuseppe Camuncoli, Adriano Batista, Nigel Raynor | |
| Adaptation of | Gaps in Season 2 | |
| Published | August 2006 | |
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| Collected in | Battlestar Galactica Volume I | |
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| Pages | {{{pages}}} | |
| ISBN | [[Special:Booksources/|]] | |
| Population | 0 Survivors | |
| Special | {{{special}}} | |
| Chronology | ||
| Previous | Next | |
| Battlestar Galactica 1 | Issue 2 | Battlestar Galactica 3 |
| Purchase | ||
| Available at BOOKSAMILLION.COM - Purchase | ||
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| Available at Amazon.co.uk – Purchase | ||
| Available at Things From Another World - Purchase | ||
Publisher's summary
While fans wait for the Season to continue in the Fall, Dynamite Entertainment continues their ongoing comic book series featuring the cast and crew of the all-new Battlestar Galactica!
Writer Greg ("Hulk") Pak and artist Nigel Raynor are joined by cover artist Adriano (upcoming Witchblade and Red Sonja projects) Batista, "Cammo" as well as a cover by Raynor and a new photo cover!
After the shocking events of issue #1 - all spinning out of the best-selling Battlestar Galactica #0 - issue #2 continues the story of the "Returners" and the re-appearance of the "old school" Cylon Warriors.
Plot
The Returners break the quarantine imposed on Medivac 12 and return to the Fleet, only to spread a virus that has incapacitated a majority of the Fleet's survivors. Meanwhile, terrorist attacks by the Earth Protectorate imperil the Fleet and its search for Earth.
Summary
- Fifteen minutes prior to the end of issue 1, Anastasia Dualla meets Darrin Dualla in Galactica's brig. Darrin explains how he got to Galactica via the zip pod and asks after their parents. A tearful Anastasia breaks down in tears, saying that her parents never had a chance to leave their planet when the Cylons attacked.
- Anastasia falls to the ground, unconscious and sickly-looking. Darrin yells to the Marines to help, unable to help her himself because he is shackled to the table.
- Commander Adama notifies the Fleet that they have been hit by a virus, which affects 80% of the people that it comes in contact with. Adama decrees that the virus is the result of the Returners and offers an ultimatum: turn over the Returners or they (and those harboring them) will be hunted down after an hour. Adama vows that after that, said Returners and those harboring them will be hunted down and exterminated, like criminals and traitors.
- A member of the Earth Protectorate burns through Galactica's hull and hoists in a Returner: Zak Adama. In exchange for payment from a group of Returner worshippers, the terrorist hands over Adama to them. The leader of this group of robed people tells Adama that they are lead by a dying leader and to prepare himself for what is to come. They soon succumb to the virus.
- A highly concerned Zak summons help. It comes in the form of Lee Adama, who berates Zak, telling him to get away from the dying people. Zak is happy to see his brother, in return Lee aims his gun at Zak, calling him a Cylon.
- From Colonial One, Laura Roslin talks to Commander Adama. Adama informs her that more than 80% of his crew and pilots are infected with the virus. He tells her that if the Cylons should attack, she and other uninfected and functioning ships will have to jump.
- Roslin asks after Zak. Adama replies that Lee has "the Cylon" and that he'll be interrogated, studied and then exterminated. She interrupts him, informing him that 10,000 people haven't been infected with the virus. She then asks if Adama remembers sand cats. He replies that he does, commenting that they were beautiful animals, and the conversation ends.
- Adama tells Colonel Tigh about the sand cats.