#052 – Traitor’s Gate

Kevin

28 November, 2006 18 October, 2020

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COMIC NOTES

‘Traitor’s Gate’ was completed 28/11/06.
The title is named after the river gate of the same name that leads into/out of the Tower of London
By now the virus had taken over the entire site and despite attempts to cleanse it, it was only a matter of time before Metal was victorious.
The codebreakers had finally been beaten by a deviously encoded message that to this day has yet to be deciphered.
Losers.
SW HQ looks suspiciously like Dr Wily’s old hideout.
SW needs more groupies. Fact.
‘Deathblossom mode’ is from the movie The Last Starfighter.
It had long been rumoured since the ‘there is a traitor’ message in the previous comic that such a traitor would revealed to be Echo (Echo Hawk). As it turns our the ‘heel turn’ had been planned for months prior to the rumours starting.
Hawk’s comments about looking like Falco Lombardi’s grandfather is an in-joke as Hawk’s ‘hawk’ form is a recolour of a Falco sprite.
Hawk actually exits stage left, not right.
Hawk’s ‘true’ hog form has been seen once before in ‘Sudden Death Amok Time’.
‘By your command-‘ is a reference to the Cylons from Battlestar Galactica.
Benadict Arnold is of course American slang for traitor, named after the man of the same name who plotted in 1780 to betray West Point to the British forces during the American War of Independence.
“Mercy, mercy, mercy me-oh!” Is a line from the song Boom! Shake The Room by Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince.
The line about chimneys is from the song ‘Feel It’ by Tamperer (Vs Maya)
The original comic featured on the front (and solely functioning) page, below the truncated disclaimer being the self-destruct mechanism. This slowly located the digits to fulfil the sequence which was revealed to be 0912-2006 or December 9th 2006.
On this day the site finally went offline as explosions and fire reigned all over the front of the site.
There is another Matrix reference, this time to Morpheus’s infamous ‘red pill, blue pill’ speech.
The extreme acupuncture referring to the scene where Neo’s body is covered in long needles.
The remarks about dogs and a stylus is a nod to NintenDogs.

Kevin

Writer of words and comics, streamer of games, presenter of radio shows and eternal 'just a guy'. LMC's boss-man has worked on projects for SEGA, Square Enix, Konami, Capcom and more. Once co-created and hosted an international fan-convention because he can do that sort of thing. Used to be known as AAUK/ArchangelUK.