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| Art by Bob Larkin |
There are those who believe...that life here began out there, far across the Universe...with tribes of humans...who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians...or the Toltecs...or the Mayans...that they may have been the architects of the Great Pyramids...or the lost civilizations of Lemuria...or Atlantis.
Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man...who even now
fight to survive--far, far away amongst the stars...
Betrayed by one of their own to the robotic alien Cylons*, the Twelve Colonies of Man are wiped out in a sneak attack.
The survivors hastily assemble a fleet of ships under the protection of the only remaining Battlestar, and head away from their now-devastated worlds....
This second half of the movie version of
Battlestar Galactica was presented by writer Roger McKenzie and artist/colorist/painter Ernie Colon.
Because it was based on an early draft of the script, names (
Serina is called
Lyra) are different, and some characters who
live in
both the movie
and tv series (including
Cassiopeia)
die!
(
Baltar dies in the feature film, but survives in the TV series.)
This first version of
Marvel Super Special #8 (1978) was a full-process color, slick-stock magazine.
However, because the editor didn't get approval from Universal Studios on the final art before it went to press, the vast majority of the copies were ordered pulped!
(This story has been confirmed by both then-Marvel Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter and the book's artist Ernie Colon.)
Changes in both script and art were made, and the book was reissued as an oversized Treasury edition, with standard comic book "flat" coloring and a new pen-and-ink cover based on the Bob Larkin cover painting!
The story was modified again when it was expanded to fill the first three issues of the ongoing Battlestar Galactica comic book...including keeping both Baltar and Cassie alive!
*Though the Cylons' Imperious Leader appears reptilian, he is as much a robot as the others, though based on the image of the humanoid lizards who created the robots!
While never stated specifically, it's implied the robots overthrew and eliminated their masters, whom they deemed "imperfect".
