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- The Ark is noted to have crash-landed on the moon in 1962, after which President Kennedy made a speech announcing America's intent to send a man to the moon. Danco must have his dates wrong by a year, because Kennedy actually made this speech in 1961.
Continuity notes
- Both Bill and Danco appeared to perish in "Frozen"; Danco's survival was revealed in Rising Storm #2, while this story confirms that Bill also made it out alive.
- In writing Sector 7, Barber wound up contradicting the Revenge of the Fallen novels on the names of Seymour Simmons's parents: where the novels had dubbed them "Felix" and "Tova", the comics went for "Bill" and "Anne". With this chapter, Barber returns to that goof, offering explanations without actually addressing the subject directly. On the subject of Anne, it is revealed that she simply changed her name. Bill's explanation is more obtuse, and relies on the reader being able to identify the cartoon used to torment him (referred to only as one about "a cat with a magic bag of tricks") as Felix the Cat. Further explanation would be given in the following chapter.
- During the Pretender's attack, a television is noted to be playing an advert for an amusement park in California. This is Disneyland, which had only just opened at the time this story is set. Further, the implication is that this image would stick with the Pretender, influencing her choice of disguise later in life: per the Revenge of the Fallen novelization and comic book adaptation, the human disguise she sports in 2009 is based on an Alice in Wonderland animatronic strongly implied to have been scanned from a Disney resort.
- On the subject of the Pretender, this story also revisits the idea briefly touched upon by Soundwave in Nefarious that she is an inherently unstable creature whose unique makeup leaves her prone to developing human traits, sympathies and eccentricities.
- Soviet Research Station Oktober was previously glimpsed in passing in Rising Storm #2, in a single panel depicting a scene of Soundwave and a scientist set in 1973. Presumably, that scientist was Voskhod.
- Overcast is mentioned; another of the warriors sent to Earth by Soundwave in Alliance retroactively confirmed as a Nemesis crew member.
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