![]() The weird thing is, almost everything that's in the tv series turns up in here too, from human hit squads going after Cyberdyne people to cops slowly putting the pieces together to fleshless Terminators wearing motorcycle helmets. Luckily this collection of Terminator comics from the early nineties is available to step into the breach. This book came out at just the right time - I finally watched T3 last year, and found out it wasn't half as bad as I'd feared, and then this year watched and adored the Terminator tv series, which finished all too soon as a result of the writers' strike. But, that's surrounded by yet another Terminator from the future (with horns? why does he have horns?) and yet another militia team from the future (why?) and yet another run at Cyberdyne and yet another pyrrhic ending where it appears that the technology to start this up again is still there. The main thing this sequence of stories had going for it was the idea of the half-Terminator character, and he gets some good attention in this newest arc as he fights against his robot nature. The only things that saves this arc are interesting characterization and exciting action. There's also a bit of a MacGuffin hunt going on for Sarah Connor. Two more Terminators return from the future, for reasons and in ways not entirely obvious, and so our fighters have to blow them up too. The uncool thing is that the plot goes absolutely nowhere. The cool thing about Robinson's second outing is that he directly continues on from "Tempest", in particular returning to our surviving freedom fighters. But Robinson's writing slowly brings the comic up to par, and he introduces a bit of timey-wimeyness of his own which is pretty delightful and answers the question of why no one tried to kill Sarah earlier in her life. This one was a little harder to love because it's the story of a Terminator sent back before Ahnold that goes after the wrong Sarah Connor in San Francisco, who also turns out to be an unlikeable character. In any case, it's a fun action ride with cool timey-wimeyness. Not only is Skynet technology being developed thanks to the first Terminator left in the past (maybe this already set up in the first movie? I don't remember), but we also get a blonde super-cop Terminator. Obviously this is a reversal of the first movie, and it's oddly prescient. Freedom fighters return to the 20th century to try and stop the formation of Skynet. Though any individual one could shine, you put them together, and it's obvious that we're seeing the same plots and the same plot twists again and again. There have been so many good iterations of the Terminator, so how does this one stand-up?Īs it turns out, they're as a whole mediocre. ![]() That entire volume was fantastic and the most captivating story of the whole series. I really enjoyed the artwork for the 2nd story, "One Shot," however. It was like looking at a coloring book my younger brother drew in. Maybe it's late 80's-early 90's comic art in general, but it was full of super bright and neon colors and hardly any texture. I was hoping the series would be more "Post-Judgement Day" oriented. The "going back in time to change the future" plot-line for the series has been rehashed so much in this series, and ultimately has a really bad payoff because nothing really changes in the end. ![]() The continuing plot line for Mary (had to go back and look her name up because it was so forgettable) and the gang doesn't really allow for character development. ![]() ![]() The characters are very bland, and we get almost no connection to them. Unfortunately, I was just extremely disconnected to it and couldn't find any way to get into it. I'm a big fan of the Terminator series, and I really, REALLY wanted to like this series. ![]()
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