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Back to the Future
"Continuum Conundrum" Part 5
Back to the Future #10
IDW
Story by John Barber and Bob Gale
Script by John Barber
Art by Marcelo Ferreira & Athila Fabbio
Inks by Marcelo Ferreira, Athila Fabbio & Toni Doya
Colors by Jose Luis Rio & Diego Rodriguez
Letters by Shawn Lee
Cover by Marcelo Ferreira
July 2016 |
Doc, with his memory returned, explains to
Marty how he got from 1893 to his current predicament.
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Notes from the Back to the Future chronology
This issue opens on September 16, 2035.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this story
Griff Tannen
Marty McFly
Doc Brown
Commissioner Wilson (not named until
"Continuum Conundrum" Part 6)
Clara
Jules
Verne
woman on phone
Harper (on phone only)
Trey
(on phone only)
Aiden
banker
Officer C-128
Jennifer Parker (in flashback only)
Didja Notice?
Pages 6-7 are a flashback reprinted from
Back to the Future #8 ("Continuum
Conundrum" Part 3) with the addition of Doc's musings in
2035 and his imagined version of what Clara and his boys had
to say about his exploits after he jumped forward in time to
2035.
On page 10, a digital billboard in 2035 advertises "Wintro -
When You Want To." A young woman is seen holding a can of
what may be soda pop on the display. Wintro appears to be a
fictitious brand.
On page 11, a man (Aiden)
does a live social media posting that reveals that the A
Match Made in Space movie now has nine sequels and a
reboot, with a second reboot in the works.
Page 14 reveals that Doc has set up the alias of Dr. Leroy
Brown for himself so he can make transactions in 2015 and
beyond. Doc may have taken the name from either the 1973
song "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" by Jim Croce or from the real
name of the fictitious character in the Encyclopedia
Brown children's detective books published 1963-2012.
In 2035, most people have a "headphone" implanted in their
head for communications. When Doc is found not to have a
headphone by a bank scanner, Doc asks, "Why should I need to
be listening to a Walkman?" "Walkman" is
Sony's
brand name for its personal audio/video devices (at Doc's
home time of 1985, Walkman devices are only audio, being the brand of a
Sony audio
cassette tape player).
The hoverboard-like devices used in 2035 are now called
"gliders".
Pages 22-23 are a flashback reprinted from the end of
"Continuum Conundrum" Part
1, with voiceover by Doc added.
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