Archangel #5, Page 3

Page 3 sees THE PILOT formulate a plan

Panel 1

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Panel 2

Note the oxygen masks visible in the right of the panel.

Panel 3

It's just as well NAOMI and VINCE did come along, otherwise THE PILOT's mission would have been much more difficult.

Panel 4

"WE'LL GET YOU BACK HOME." I think either NAOMI or VINCE are really, really important in the future, given how careful THE PILOT and TORRES are in trying to get them home.

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Archangel #4, Page 3

Page 3 explains JUNIOR's plan

Panel 1

In THE PILOT's version of the future, the second atomic bomb, dropped from the Bockscar, was dropped on Archangel, Russia instead of Nagasaki.

JUNIOR changes the bombing location, and that results in the Nu Earth that JUNIOR is from, so this is a bit of a temporal causality loop.

Panel 2

NAOMI asks the important question "WHY ARCHANGEL?"

Panels 3-4

So instead of the MAD doctrine (Mutually Assured Destruction), we get Pax Americana.

Pax Americana is a real-world term used to describe the relative peace in the Western Hemisphere as a result of the preponderance of power enjoyed by the United States since the middle of the 20th century.

Panel 5

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Panel 6

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Archangel #3, Page 3

Page 3 introduces us to COLONEL YERAKOV, who might be the Chief Intelligence Officer in the Russian quadrant of Berlin


Panel 1

COLONEL YERAKOV is talking to MR. BABY (Herr Saugling).

Panel 2

MR. BABY is trying to sell copper.

Panel 3

MR. BABY bills you for everything.

Panel 4

COLONEL YERAKOV says (in broken English) that it is rumoured that NAOMI is questioning American pilots in prison.

Panel 5

NAOMI doesn't give anything away.

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Archangel #2, Page 3

Page 3 sees THE PILOT don THE CREEPSUIT

Panel 1

THE PILOT is unhappy.

Panel 2

THE PILOT examines THE CREEPSUIT


Panel 3

The gun is merged with the table, I suppose because things have to be falling to be transported in THE SPLITTER, sometimes it can be difficult to be precise with the delivery co-ordinates.
The gun looks like a modified Desert Eagle Mark XIX (I'm not really sure, we don't have guns in Ireland).

Panel 4

THE PILOT zips up the suit

Panel 5

THE CREEPSUIT allows THE PILOT to vanish. Invisibility cloaks can work in several different ways, some have tiny cameras on the back that project whatever they are seeing on the front, and vice versa. Others use nanoantennas (gold blocks) engineered in such a way as to reroute reflected light waves so that the object is rendered invisible.

For me, David McCallum will always be the Invisible Man

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Archangel #1, Page 3

Page 3 shows the SPLITTER which achieves quantum transfer. The transfer process only works in freefall.

Panel 1

Speaker.

Panel 2

Seven people on the SPLITTER platform.

Panel 3

DR. JACK DAVIS says to proceed.

Panel 4

MAJOR GUADALUPE TORRES is operating the SPLITTER. DR. DAVIS instructs the participants to ACTIVATE BOOSTER CUFFS.

Panel 5

Speaker countdown.

Panel 6

Seven people on the SPLITTER platform.

Panel 7

Seven people jump off the SPLITTER platform and teleport.

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