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								<h2><a name="OV">Overview</a></h2>


								<blockquote><cite>

								Security Chief Garibaldi and hotshot pilot Warren Keffer plunge into

								deep space, following a cryptic clue that may explain why an alien

								outpost was wiped out.  Ambushed and forced to crash land on a remote

								planet, Garibaldi recalls his first meeting with Babylon 5's former

								commander, Jeffrey Sinclair.

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								Issue 5 (June 1995, released April 4)


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								Setting: Before

								<a href="/lurk/guide/031.html">"The Coming of Shadows"</a>


								<pre>    Writer: Tim DeHaas

								   Premise: J. Michael Straczynski

								    Artist: John Ridgway

								  Colorist: Robbie Busch</pre>


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								<h2><a name="SY">Synopsis</a></h2>


								<p>

								Garibaldi finds Londo and Vir in the Zocalo and tells Londo he knows that

								the Narn outpost in Quadrant 37 (destroyed in

								<a href="/lurk/guide/022.html">"Chrysalis"</a>)

								has been the subject of many of Londo's transmissions.  Londo, taken aback

								that Garibaldi has been listening in on him, says he's just staying informed.

								G'Kar, arriving on the scene, notes, "It seems every time you are informed

								of something, others pay with their lives," pointing to the destruction of

								the Narn cruiser in

								<a href="/lurk/guide/024.html">"Revelations."</a>  Londo and G'Kar nearly

								come to blows before Vir drags Londo away for a scheduled meeting with

								Delenn.


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								But it's not Delenn waiting for Londo; it's Morden, who tells Londo to be

								more careful in his off-station communications, and asks that Londo tell him

								if Garibaldi should decide to investigate further.


								<p>

								Garibaldi is in a security office.  He's sifting through ambassadorial

								communications, looking for something suspicious, something he's apparently

								authorized to do randomly.  Shortly after Ivanova arrives, Garibaldi finds

								Londo using a comm channel, though without tipping Londo off to the tap,

								Garibaldi can't see who's on the other side.  It turns out to be Refa;

								the two discuss the Emperor's health (poor.)  Londo wants to meet with Refa

								in person to discuss misgivings about the "source" who helped him with

								Quadrant 37; they agree to meet in two hours at some predetermined place.


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								Garibaldi decides that Londo's source is definitely something Earth needs

								to know more about.  He rushes off to beat Londo to the meeting place,

								whose location he learned from previous transmissions.  As he's trying to

								sneak out with a flyer, Keffer catches up to him and invites himself

								along.  "Somebody has to bring you back alive," he says.  Garibaldi

								reluctantly agrees.


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								Londo is on his way to his ship when he runs into Morden.  Morden tells

								Londo to cancel his meeting with Refa and instead pay a routine diplomatic

								visit to a Centauri colony.  He demands that Londo tell him where the meeting

								was going to take place.


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								Keffer and Garibaldi emerge from a jumpgate near a planet.  Asked why he

								went along, Keffer says, "You needed help.  You don't have many friends on

								the station."  Garibaldi agrees that Sinclair was the only one he knew

								he could trust.


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								While they wait for Londo and Refa to arrive, Garibaldi explains why he trusts

								Sinclair in a way that he can never trust Sheridan.  It was years earlier,

								back on Mars Colony.  Garibaldi had started a shuttle transport service,

								mostly transporting people who didn't like being asked questions.  He was

								sitting in his office, nursing a bottle, when Lieutenant Commander Sinclair

								came in with two junior officers and enlists Garibaldi's services for a

								flight.  He's a little apprehensive about Garibaldi's drunkenness, but

								Garibaldi accepts the job.


								<p>

								The story is interrupted by the abrupt appearance of a Shadow fighter.

								Keffer heads at breakneck speed for the planet, dodging shots left and

								right, but their ship is hit and goes spinning half out of control.  Keffer

								manages to stabilize the ship somewhat, but it's still headed for the

								ground.  "Hope the foam-protect still works," says Garibaldi, as the ship

								disappears behind a small mountain range...


								<H2><A NAME="BP">Backplot</A></H2>


								<H2><A NAME="UQ">Unanswered Questions</A></H2>


								<H2><A NAME="AN">Analysis</A></H2>


								<H2><A NAME="NO">Notes</A></H2>

								<ul>


								   <li> Beginning this issue, BABYLON 5 is upgraded

									to DC's Fracote Format, featuring a coated paper stock.  Painted cover

									by Scott Hampton.


								</ul>


								<H2><A NAME="JMS">jms speaks</A></H2>

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								   <li> I have to say I'm very pleased with issue #5.  It came out very well,

									and nicely captures both the look, feel and dialogue of the show.  There

									were some bumps along the way in issues 2-4, so I didn't say much, but

									THIS one I can highly recommend.


								   <li> About the new paper and price...I did the first issue, and while the

									pencils were quite good, and the inks okay, when they put the coloring

									in the paper just absorbed the hell out of it and it looked like crap,

									from my POV.  (And I'm not speaking out of school; I said much the

									same to DC.) Parts were nice, but other parts...yikes.  I felt,

									strongly, that we needed a better quality of paper, otherwise a lot of

									the good work that was being done was going to be lost.  It would cost

									more, but finally DC -- which, to be fair, has only been VASTLY

									supportive of B5, and the comic and their only intention is to make it

									as good as possible -- decided to go with the better quality paper.

									The main question was whether or not there was enough of a reader base

									to warrant it; there was, and they did.


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