“I did not save the fleet. It saved me. And now, thanks to the deceptions of the Okaati… it is gone.” — Commander Adama
“Counterstrike, Part 4”
Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, loses to an Okaati ruse that which it had so long protected: the fleet carrying the last remnants of humanity!
Art by Edu Menna and Daniel HDR
Lettered by Taylor Esposito
Colored by Natalia Marques
Main cover by Marco Rudy
Variant cover by Daniel HDR with Natalia Marques
Edited by Matt Idelson
From my very first professional series in comics, Crimson Dynamo, I knew that things could change midstream in a hurry. That series was struck with an artist change, and we had to find a new one quickly; we wound up not missing a deadline.
This time, even though my work had ended on the series back in 2018, it apparently wasn’t possible to keep to the original schedule when Daniel HDR‘s tenure on the series ended. Edu Menna came on board to see the miniseries to its finale, but in the meantime there was about a four month publication gap. All that said — now that the story is complete and the graphic novel is out, today’s readers would have no idea there ever was a break. (Unless they read about it here!)
I provided Dynamite with my own visual conception of how the Galactica should appear within the Comitat fleet; the artist’s depiction ended up being pretty close to what I had imagined.
This is the only issue of the run for which I didn’t write an essay for the Dynamite site, so the thoughts you’re reading on this page are the first I’ve published about the issue.
“The cause is just!” — Commander Adama
While Daniel HDR didn’t do any more interior work after this issue, his variant covers appeared until the end of the run.
While a few of the covers did relate editorially to what was going on in the storyline, a few really were just to celebrate characters from the series’ long history. That’s the case with Athena on this issue’s variant cover.
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