Trivia
| - * The comic gives the time of the Optima Down bar scene as "22.48 PST", which is inconsistent with the UTC times presented in the story, and curious considering Oklahoma is the Central timezone. However, if it is corrected to "22.48 CT", then the story is consistent. Later scenes in Optima Down are timecoded in the Central timezone.
* Madeline later tells Ken that they had been drinking "Chinese Car Bombs" -- shots of rice wine dropped into Tsingtao beer. The ficticious drink is play off of the "Irish Car Bomb," a shot of Bailey's Irish cream floating on Jameson Irish wiskey, dropped into Guinness stout. In real life, Tsingtao beer was named the official export beer of China in 1979.
* Dr. Leonard Carson mentions Day of the Triffids, a 1951 novel by English science fiction author John Wyndham, which was adapted into a 1962 film starring Janette Scott. Dr. Carson sums up the story for Dr. Ballad like so:
:"Big light in the sky. Everybody looks. In the morning, everyone who looked is blind, and then big walking plants sting all the blind people to death. The end."
* Unlike in most comic books, which use only uppercase lettering, lettering in this comic is done in both uppercase and lowercase characters.
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