Read Part IV HERE. Before 2003, the Terminator series, consisting of The Terminator, T2 and T2 3D, was an Oscar winning property created and helmed by one of the most successful A list directors of all time. After 2003, it will never again have that stature and respect.
The 2000s brought some films unauthorized by James Cameron and going their own way outside of his input of any kind, their questionable story and direction dictated by whichever studio bid more for the rights. Since the site is based on the three Cameron co-written films (The Terminator, T2 and T2 3D), we won't be focusing on any comic books licensed off or story-wise based off any other movies than The Terminator and T2. Now, truth to be told, I shouldn't really focus on Terminator comic books from this point on, because from this point on the perception is tainted. Other movies with their own ideas and input exist, and even if the miniseries is based on the original films, the other films exist in everyone's consciousness and they will always permeate the universe somehow. And they did. Elements from newer films appeared very often in stories that were suppose to be centered around and are licensed off the original. Heck, even by Tim Miller's admission, Dark Fate was not the film that would have been made have it been made back in the days. It also was made with the newer films in mind, even when ignoring them. Their mere existence influenced its story and direction.
But I wanted to at least get some facts straight and take a look at the comic books which were made after the newer films had come out, and were licensed on the original films. Not only did the Terminator name declined in the movie world in the 2000s , but also in the comic book world
Astonishingly, despite the title and apparently a license, this series has nothing to do with T2 and picks up directly where Jonathan Mostow's movie lefts off. It's its direct continuation. It continues its story, characters etc, not T2's in any way. Again it's a direct linear continuation of Mostow's film so we won't be focusing on that one. While comic books don't have to necessarily continue the particular story of the film or whereabouts of its character, we only focus on comic books where only events and worlds of the first two movies exist. Infinity is about Stahl's Connor emerging from Crystal Peak, whereabouts of the Brewster woman etc. It's all about Mostow's film. Same with the Revolution story.
This series was published by Dynamite Entertainment, and apparently they had license to T2 if they put it in the title. It's such a waste they didn't do anything with it. All they used from it was the title, the imagery for the first issue's cover and a two very brief scenes touching upon the original first two movies. The series is about sort of a male version of T-X from Mostow's film that can jump through time, called T-Infinity. Realizing the time travels only harmed Skynet, he goes back and kills all the assassins from the films. So at some point we have him destroy the T-800 in 1984 in two panels
And T-1000's destruction is done off pages since it would have been problematic as to how to destroy it. It is shown being sent back to 1995 in two panels, and those are pretty much the long series' ONLY links to The Terminator and T2.
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TERMINATOR 2: INFINITY (July 2007)
Astonishingly, despite the title and apparently a license, this series has nothing to do with T2 and picks up directly where Jonathan Mostow's movie lefts off. It's its direct continuation. It continues its story, characters etc, not T2's in any way. Again it's a direct linear continuation of Mostow's film so we won't be focusing on that one. While comic books don't have to necessarily continue the particular story of the film or whereabouts of its character, we only focus on comic books where only events and worlds of the first two movies exist. Infinity is about Stahl's Connor emerging from Crystal Peak, whereabouts of the Brewster woman etc. It's all about Mostow's film. Same with the Revolution story.
This series was published by Dynamite Entertainment, and apparently they had license to T2 if they put it in the title. It's such a waste they didn't do anything with it. All they used from it was the title, the imagery for the first issue's cover and a two very brief scenes touching upon the original first two movies. The series is about sort of a male version of T-X from Mostow's film that can jump through time, called T-Infinity. Realizing the time travels only harmed Skynet, he goes back and kills all the assassins from the films. So at some point we have him destroy the T-800 in 1984 in two panels
And T-1000's destruction is done off pages since it would have been problematic as to how to destroy it. It is shown being sent back to 1995 in two panels, and those are pretty much the long series' ONLY links to The Terminator and T2.
PAINKILLER JANE VS TERMINATOR (January 2008)
This is a crossover with an immortal character I wasn't familiar beforehand, called Painkiller Jane. It's tricky because it's one continuous story (or rather action), but tossed into two different comic series - 2 issues of Painkiller Jane and 2 issues of a 2-issue comic simply titled Terminator 2. The thing with this crossover is the same as with Infinity - it's all Jonathan Mostow's world, his movie's designs, look and continuity. It's basically the Infinity/Revolution world, complete with 2003 movie's HKs and so on, so won't be focusing on that one either. It's a story of a female Terminator 800 going back to our times to New York City encountering Painkiller Jane.
DARK HORSE COMICS
THE TERMINATOR: 2029 (March 2010)
Dark Horse has reacquired the Terminator license for the third time, and yet again scratched all of their other continuities (understandably so). As before, for some reason they got the license for the first film only. This series is a crazy "what if" scenario, which shows that Reese did not actually die at the end of the first film, but survives and was secretly held prisoner.
This and the following series titled 1984 are, in my opinion, the worst Terminator comic books ever made so far. Well, along with Sector War. Sure, The Dark Years was silly, so was Superman thing and the Alien/Predator crossover was like Cartoon Network's Terminator. They were really bad, but this just mocks the established characters with its ridiculous and inaccurate portrayal of them. More on it and examples of it will follow. While other bad Terminator stories may be just weak or have flat plot, I'd go as far as saying that this series offends me as a Terminator fan. Really good covers though. So let's take a look
Issue #1 Untitled Written by Zack Whedon, Art by Andy Macdonald
The story takes place in Pasadena in 2029. We get introduced to characters like Ben and Paige, two resistance fighters who have a spark between them but the girl doesn't admit it yet. Ben is also Reese's best buddy. The resistance's colony is discovered by the new T-800s which no one had seen yet but the colonists manage to escape in trucks and buses.
Other than brief introduction to he characters and their relationship, this issue is basically just an intro, but it already shows signs of things to come: everybody talks and behaves like stereotypical college dorm students and goof around. Especially Reese, who acts like a Ninja Turtle from the 80's. Not only him, but even the guy who was replacing Ben and Page on their shift acts like one. So far seems like there's no mature adults in the resistance, just joke cracking, prank pulling wise guys kids who are having a great time like living in college campus. They even room together like some college roommates busting each other's balls
Issue #2 Untitled Written by Zack Whedon, Art by Andy Macdonald
The colonists get ambushed by a group of 800's as they're called in the series, but get rescued just in time by some independent fighting group Yankee Company, although they as well may be just another party team from another college, or so they act
So the colonists get rescued but an 800 manages to hide under one of the trucks and pulled Paige off of it. Ben jumps to her rescue and defeats this 800 with pliers....Pliers!
He jumps on its back and manages to stab it in the eye, then open its port cover and pull out the CPU (and by the way, it is a first depiction of Terminator's CPU in Dark Horse's comics since its design belongs to T2). So all there's needed is pliers to bring down an 800 in an instant. Not to mention the port cover had to be unscrewed with a power tool in T2, but here Ben just pops it with pliers. To think all they needed in the film was just pliers to defeat a terminator....utter stupidity. And that isn't 80's , that's 2010.
The Yankee team wants to hit some machine base for adrenaline (yeah, party dude!) and out of curiosity of what's inside. All they're missing are red cups in their hands. They do it, find a very old prisoner who they take with them and blow up the place. Upon arrival to the camp, the old man says he only wants to talk to Ben. He reveals to him that he's actually Kyle Reese
Issue #3 Untitled Written by Zack Whedon, Art by Andy Macdonald
Ben doesn't believe the old man, but before Ben leaves, the old man draws him a mysterious sign. Ben and Paige admit their love for each other, and Paige takes off a cast from her hand, which she had after the endo grabbed her. Her scar is exactly like the sign the old man drew, so this confirms to Ben the old man is really Reese. The old Reese explains to Ben that his younger self will soon go back in time to 1984 but that in that time he will also get captured and held for his entire life by people who will most likely be also largely responsible for Skynet's development.
More cringe worthy spring break college talk in this issue. Paige thinks her scar looks "badass", and afterwards Reese also says he likes it, saying "Paige, that's a sick scar". Just examples of all this college "sick dude" spring break talk. Ugh. Reese and Ben even have a bro handshake or whatever it's called by today's college youth.
Anyway, John Connor appears and explains the upcoming mission to Reese. It seems the license has became extremely flexible nowadays, because not only in this series we had seen a CPU, and the plasma rifles, but the terminators are actually called T-800s. Connor mentions that thanks to the intel they gathered from the base they blew up, they'll be able to reprogram a T-800, and John Connor actually looks like T2's Connor with the signature scar on top of all that.
Ben doesn't want to help the old Reese who asks him to go after him to 1984, saying he loves Paige too much to leave her.
Young Reese gets sent by Connor (very casually as if just striding in and figuring he could as well go back, and in clothes even! What is it with this series?) but not before making more idiotic, out of character wise guy remarks. Jeez, I mean look at this...that's him answering why he volunteered:
It's a slap in the face to the Reese character from the film, a traumatic, shaken character. This is plain offensive. Gone is Kyle Reese, a character ravaged by war, scarred psychologically even more than physically, hyperalert, PTSD torn man constantly on the edge - a man with unmatched intensity and sense of urgency. Here he's just some wiseass joke cracking college "dude" kid who talks like modern youth and doesn't take anything seriously smirking all the time, treating everything as a joke.
Anyway, the "later bro" dude, aka this series' Reese, gets back in time because probably he's bored or something. That's sarcasm of course but not even that far off from the truth. In the first issue his buddy Ben complains on his watching shift with Paige that it's boring. All those supposed resistance soldiers really do act like and have personalities of stereotypical modern youth. I'm sure it's an attempt to make youth connect and identify with the characters more.
And that departure of Reese, oh boy...it has always been depicted in the script and books and any other versions as dramatic painful moment, with feelings of dread, urgency and sorrow, while here this "kid" just casually walks in, makes a wise crack joke and disappears with everything he wears. I mean, if at least this series had been promoted as a, I don't know, a modern light version of the characters? Or, a modern reinvention? Or something of that sort, I wouldn't be so offended by it. But it was touted on the back pages of the first issue as getting back to the roots. Can you imagine that? I had to laugh when I read it. The only way it goes back to the roots is with licensing only.
Back to the story, after the "kid" leaves, Ben and Paige walk around and discuss, in their own words, how it "sucks" that Reese had to go, and then they casually discuss finding booze somewhere (!!!), like college kids do.
Their life together doesn't last long because moments later Paige is killed by a naked T-800, and Ben of course agrees to go back in time after Reese. That is done just by casually deciding to go there, and old Reese, who's supposedly not knowledgeable in tech stuff, operates the machine and sends Ben to 1984. Ben's arrival burns hole in the ground and melts a chunk of a car, just like in T2. No wonder they didn't get a more expensive license for T2 as they used everything from it aside from one element.
That concludes the first of the two mini series' (the second one being "1984") that I deeply, deeply dislike and think of as an offense to the tone, story and characters of the original films. Then again, maybe it's hard to blame the creators since by that point the mythology has been so tinted and diluted.
THE TERMINATOR: 1984 (September 2010)
This is a direct continuation of the "2029" series, picking up immediately where 2029 left off and done by the same creative team.
Issue #1 Untitled Written by Zack Whedon, Art by Andy Macdonald
We have a brief replay of the end of the movie. T-800 chases Reese and Sarah in a tanker, and then a very Gorilla-looking endo gets crashed by a hydraulic press.
So Ben arrives in 1984, gets his clothes from a local mall and watches for a sign. He sees explosion of the tanker from far away and rushes to the scene. There he sees Reese being loaded in a bag into a van and follows it, only to see that he's being taken to the base that is under construction - the same they will blow up in the future. Yes, Reese is actually alive and in this retrowriting it's explained that he just had very weak pulse but pulled through...
Ben wants to break Reese free so he decides to find Sarah which he does after 4 months, and ask her for help which of course she gives. Its FBI that's holding Reese captive. They believe his story and also stole the remnants of the T-800 from the factory. Also, one of the guys accompanying Sarah looks awful lot like Enrique Salceda, but next issue will make no secret that this series is trying to connect to T2
Issue #2 Untitled Written by Zack Whedon, Art by Andy Macdonald
Another T-800 101 is arriving at the Griffith observatory where another set of punks spends their time there. They all get obliterated by the time sphere.
The 800 steals garbage man's truck and clothes. Ben finds out that Sarah is pregnant with Reese and realizes it's John Connor. After some action, they break Reese free and blow up the remains of the endoskeleton from the factory, of which only one arm and damaged CPU survives intact....So that's suppose to tie up to T2 explaining supposedly why those two elements remained, while in fact back in 1984 it was already explained, in the novelization at least, if no one had seen the deleted scenes or read the script, that the hand was the only thing the Cyberdyne worker could grab before police came, and the CPU popped nearby from the pressure.
The terminator appears on their way and after some more action he ends up in a fresh concrete of which he breaks free at the end of the issue
Issue #3 Untitled Written by Zack Whedon, Art by Andy Macdonald
Terminator heads for Sarah, Kyle and Ben's hideout. How did he know where they are is unknown, especially since it's a small house in a desert. That bit is completely unexplained
Look at the wisecracking Reese below tasting a strawberry for the first time. A stark contrast to Reese who in the novelization of the first film also tries one and breaks into tears and falls on his knees, overwhelmed by both the beauty of this world and the impending death of it. And here? Wow, just wow...
Terminator arrives, action ensues, all while Sarah is giving birth in a car nearby assisted by Ben. After plenty of action Reese destroys the 800 with a bazooka and a sledgehammer but gets shot in the process and dies later in bed. Ben stays with Sarah and helps to raise John. FBI is trying to recover what was left from the terminator in the desert
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TERMINATOR ROBOCOP: KILL HUMAN (July 2011)
Issue #1 Untitled Written by Rob Williams, Art by P.J.Holden
We're in the future, and Skynet is winning. We witness the last living human being, a girl named Lauren, breaking into a sort of Skynet museum that exists for some reason, for the hope of finding some kind of solution. She is already chased by a bunch of endos. There she finds and activates Robocop, whom she quickly explains the situation to. He, along with reactivated ED 209, destroy the pursuing Terminators but Skynet takes control of Robocop and Robo shoots the girl dead.
Issue #2 Untitled Written by Rob Williams, Art by P.J.Holden
Upon downloading Earth's history and finding out all humanity has been wiped out, RoboCop sends himself back through time (in a gory fashion, his time bubble appears inside a human being) and arrives at Cyberdyne Systems just when the T-800 is shooting the Police Cars from the window. Robo engages in a fight with him and then injects him with a virus that wipes out his CPU. Sarah and John are devastated
Issue #3 Untitled Written by Rob Williams, Art by P.J.Holden
Sarah assumes that if Robo is not their protector, he's against them, but suddenly a massive army of ED 209s appear and continuously shoot the jet ranger piloted by the T-1000 in a massive array of bullets. We find out that Robo actually came back 5 years prior and came up with a plan. He contacted then-young and broke Dick Jones, gave him schematics to build ED 209s and they both came up with an elaborate plan to destroy the T-1000 knowing this thing is virtually undefeatable. Robocop explained that he destroyed the T-800 because he didn't want any Skynet tech around. While ED 209s continue to shoot at it, Sarah, John, Dick and Robo leave on a plane and land somewhere in the ocean on an aircraft carrier
Issue #4 Untitled Written by Rob Williams, Art by P.J.Holden
Special jet fighters circle the aircraft carrier making sure the T-1000 won't come but to no use. He comes on a plane which gets shut down, but blowing up means nothing to the liquid killer. The T-1000 gets on board the ship and Robocop is waiting for him in some kind of gargantuan robot, but the T-1000 sips inside and takes control. Dick Jones awakes the T-800 to help in the fight but he, Dick, John and the T-1000 get sealed off in a sinking compartment to which a special terminator corroding acid is being poured. Deciding that sacrifice has to be made for greater cause, Robocop decided not to open the doors despite Dick's begging. The T-1000 cuts John's head off and stares through the window smiling at Robocop. In a twist of events Robocop realizes that Skynet had let him go back through time and used him to kill John, therefore successfully wiping out all humanity, as Robocop had witnessed in the first issue. Interesting, dark twist ending
DARK HORSE COMICS
THE TERMINATOR: ENEMY OF MY ENEMY (February 2014)
Terminator returned to Dark Horse in 2014 and is a departure from following the story of the films. Of course another Terminator comes back but this time, for reasons not immediately known, his target is a woman named Dr Elise Fong
It's not a bad story and the art is fine, and finally there's a story in Dark Horse's third stint with the Terminator that doesn't meddle or contradict the films so much
Issue #1 Untitled Written by Dan Jolley, Art by Jamal Igle
The story begins in Atlanta, Georgia. Our main character is a female agent Farrow Greene, who has a price on her head but who is also the best bounty hunter. She gets a task of bringing in young Dr Elise Fong, no questions asked. Meanwhile, in the city outskirts, a long haired T-800 arrives with the task of killing Fong.
Greene locates Fong but at the same time the Terminator barges in and the fight ensues. Eventually Greene shoots him in the head and drops him down few floors realizing he's not a human being, and makes some calls to find out if her contact will find anything. Fong escapes and the Terminator shaves his head and changes his appearance.
Issue #2 Untitled Written by Dan Jolley, Art by Jamal Igle
Greenes contact is a double agent and informs the government people from the "1984" series of a possible encounter with functioning terminator. Meanwhile, Greene locates Fong again and kidnaps her. Fong reveals that she is working with skin and may one day perfect a method of growing it. The Terminator locates them again and chase/firefight ensues again. Outside, Greene's contact is waiting with government agents to take Greene and Terminator with them
Issue #3 Untitled Written by Dan Jolley, Art by Jamal Igle
Fong gets taken by the agents while Terminator and Greene escape. The Government guys don't know why Fong is targeted but want to use her as bait. Meanwhile, Green also changes her appearance and is getting followed by the T-800. After a car chase and long fight, Greene gets an upper hand and is able to talk to the terminator who is stuck in a rubble. She explains to him that Fong is held by an army of well equipped men and offers him temporary truce to get inside and then decide which one ofthem gets her. The Terminator agrees.
Issue #4 Untitled Written by Dan Jolley, Art by Jamal Igle
Greene and the T-800 have a little chat on their way and then proceed to sneak in and attack the base. After much action and many shootouts, they manage to get inside the lab and see primitive versions of the Terminators which are activated and well equipped to fight a Terminator.
Issue #5 Untitled Written by Dan Jolley, Art by Jamal Igle
Greene and a disabled Terminator are captured but upon reactivating, the T-800 creates chaos and Green gets free as well. Both proceed to continue to work together and cover each other's backs. They manage to destroy the primitive terminators and escape the compound (Fong escaped as well when the shootout began). Upon locating Fong, Greene pins the Terminator under a car and escapes with Fong on a plane
Issue #6 Untitled Written by Dan Jolley, Art by Jamal Igle
Greene and Fong land and Greene orders Fong to run, becuase she wants to face the Terminator herself and try to stop him. After a long fight, Fong arrives to save Greene. Greene manages to destroy the Terminator by dropping a water tower on him and yanking him to train tracks, but not before the Terminator manages to kill Fong.
Sector War is a very simple chase story. Very, very simple, down to bare bones. Only the beginning of the first issue has any plot in it, while everything else is just continuous action. As in Enemy of My Enemy, another woman is targeted by another Terminator, and at first we don't know why.
Issue #1 Untitled Written by Brian Wood, Art by Jeff Stokely
The story takes place in 1984 in New York City. Our main character is a female cop, Castro, who's a resourceful woman but lives with a lazy bum who mistreats her. A Terminator appears in the alleys, targeted at her. This Terminator looks like a cross between Lurch from The Addams Family and Hulk for some reason, and doesn't look like a human being. Again, think cartoon version of Lurch.
When Castro goes home the Terminator meets her there and the fight and chase begins. It starts in the building, then progresses to streets. Castro escapes to a really bad part of the city without any way to contact backup. She also does a pregnancy test while hiding and finds out she's pregnant. In one of the last panels of the issue we find out this Terminator is a model 101, but it's safe to assume the creators did not know what that designation mean and that it refers to the physical human look, while this Terminator is very apparently completely unlike 101. I mean, look at the panel above, this Lurch looking, crazy haired blonde giant is not Arnold Schwarzenegger obviously.
Issue #2 Untitled Written by Brian Wood, Art by Jeff Stokely
The Terminator commands a garbage truck and locates Castro. Chase and firefight resumes. Eventually Castro lands in a part of the city controlled by a local gang, and just before Castro's about to get herself into big trouble with them, they all notice a hurt Terminator coming their way. They all make a run for it
Issue #3 Untitled Written by Brian Wood, Art by Jeff Stokely
Castro is taken to the ganglord and pleads for help with the Terminator. She promises that she'll get rid of any evidence against him if he will help her. He takes on the offer and the entire building prepares for the T-800's arrival. Despite a massive firefight he still enters the building and its there where Castro gets a chance to talk to the Terminator...yes, instead of killing her, he stops and tells her what he is and explains to her why she's wanted!
Issue #1 Untitled Written by Dan Jolley, Art by Jamal Igle
The story begins in Atlanta, Georgia. Our main character is a female agent Farrow Greene, who has a price on her head but who is also the best bounty hunter. She gets a task of bringing in young Dr Elise Fong, no questions asked. Meanwhile, in the city outskirts, a long haired T-800 arrives with the task of killing Fong.
Greene locates Fong but at the same time the Terminator barges in and the fight ensues. Eventually Greene shoots him in the head and drops him down few floors realizing he's not a human being, and makes some calls to find out if her contact will find anything. Fong escapes and the Terminator shaves his head and changes his appearance.
Issue #2 Untitled Written by Dan Jolley, Art by Jamal Igle
Greenes contact is a double agent and informs the government people from the "1984" series of a possible encounter with functioning terminator. Meanwhile, Greene locates Fong again and kidnaps her. Fong reveals that she is working with skin and may one day perfect a method of growing it. The Terminator locates them again and chase/firefight ensues again. Outside, Greene's contact is waiting with government agents to take Greene and Terminator with them
Issue #3 Untitled Written by Dan Jolley, Art by Jamal Igle
Fong gets taken by the agents while Terminator and Greene escape. The Government guys don't know why Fong is targeted but want to use her as bait. Meanwhile, Green also changes her appearance and is getting followed by the T-800. After a car chase and long fight, Greene gets an upper hand and is able to talk to the terminator who is stuck in a rubble. She explains to him that Fong is held by an army of well equipped men and offers him temporary truce to get inside and then decide which one ofthem gets her. The Terminator agrees.
Issue #4 Untitled Written by Dan Jolley, Art by Jamal Igle
Greene and the T-800 have a little chat on their way and then proceed to sneak in and attack the base. After much action and many shootouts, they manage to get inside the lab and see primitive versions of the Terminators which are activated and well equipped to fight a Terminator.
Issue #5 Untitled Written by Dan Jolley, Art by Jamal Igle
Greene and a disabled Terminator are captured but upon reactivating, the T-800 creates chaos and Green gets free as well. Both proceed to continue to work together and cover each other's backs. They manage to destroy the primitive terminators and escape the compound (Fong escaped as well when the shootout began). Upon locating Fong, Greene pins the Terminator under a car and escapes with Fong on a plane
Issue #6 Untitled Written by Dan Jolley, Art by Jamal Igle
Greene and Fong land and Greene orders Fong to run, becuase she wants to face the Terminator herself and try to stop him. After a long fight, Fong arrives to save Greene. Greene manages to destroy the Terminator by dropping a water tower on him and yanking him to train tracks, but not before the Terminator manages to kill Fong.
THE TERMINATOR: SECTOR WAR (August 2018)
Sector War is a very simple chase story. Very, very simple, down to bare bones. Only the beginning of the first issue has any plot in it, while everything else is just continuous action. As in Enemy of My Enemy, another woman is targeted by another Terminator, and at first we don't know why.
Issue #1 Untitled Written by Brian Wood, Art by Jeff Stokely
The story takes place in 1984 in New York City. Our main character is a female cop, Castro, who's a resourceful woman but lives with a lazy bum who mistreats her. A Terminator appears in the alleys, targeted at her. This Terminator looks like a cross between Lurch from The Addams Family and Hulk for some reason, and doesn't look like a human being. Again, think cartoon version of Lurch.
When Castro goes home the Terminator meets her there and the fight and chase begins. It starts in the building, then progresses to streets. Castro escapes to a really bad part of the city without any way to contact backup. She also does a pregnancy test while hiding and finds out she's pregnant. In one of the last panels of the issue we find out this Terminator is a model 101, but it's safe to assume the creators did not know what that designation mean and that it refers to the physical human look, while this Terminator is very apparently completely unlike 101. I mean, look at the panel above, this Lurch looking, crazy haired blonde giant is not Arnold Schwarzenegger obviously.
Issue #2 Untitled Written by Brian Wood, Art by Jeff Stokely
The Terminator commands a garbage truck and locates Castro. Chase and firefight resumes. Eventually Castro lands in a part of the city controlled by a local gang, and just before Castro's about to get herself into big trouble with them, they all notice a hurt Terminator coming their way. They all make a run for it
Issue #3 Untitled Written by Brian Wood, Art by Jeff Stokely
Castro is taken to the ganglord and pleads for help with the Terminator. She promises that she'll get rid of any evidence against him if he will help her. He takes on the offer and the entire building prepares for the T-800's arrival. Despite a massive firefight he still enters the building and its there where Castro gets a chance to talk to the Terminator...yes, instead of killing her, he stops and tells her what he is and explains to her why she's wanted!
The very polite and talkative endoskeleton explains everything to his target, telling her that she is targeted because her daughter will be part of critical Skynet offenses in 2029. After even more talk, while the Terminator has a gun pointed at her, he says "Prepare to be Terminated"(!!!). I mean....
Of course she uses that time to jump off the edge and escapes the building while other gang members are doing their best to stop the now bare endoskeleton
Issue #4 Untitled Written by Brian Wood, Art by Jeff Stokely
Castro escapes into the subway tunnels and the endo follows. This Terminator further proves to be the most talkative yet.. Castro manages to destroy him by driving a bulldozer into him and letting it fall on him
Of course she uses that time to jump off the edge and escapes the building while other gang members are doing their best to stop the now bare endoskeleton
Issue #4 Untitled Written by Brian Wood, Art by Jeff Stokely
Castro escapes into the subway tunnels and the endo follows. This Terminator further proves to be the most talkative yet.. Castro manages to destroy him by driving a bulldozer into him and letting it fall on him
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