THE TERMINATOR
He said he’d be back…
Don’t panic! All he wants is to clean your windscreen.
★★★★★
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Publisher Dynamite Entertainment
Writer Declan Shalvey
Artists David O’Sullivan, Luke
Sparrow, Colin Craker
ISSUES 1-3 While the movie
franchise has offered up middling results for more than 20 years now, Netflix’s recent
Terminator Zero
anime proved there’s still life in the franchise yet. This new comic takes a similarly fresh approach. Written by Declan Shalvey and illustrated by a range of artists, it’s a stripped-back affair that returns the franchise to its most elemental principles: ordinary people trying to survive encounters with an invincible killer cyborg.
Dynamite’s licence means that characters from
Terminator 2
onwards are off limits here. Rather than that restricting things, however, it allows Shalvey and co
to open up the world with new characters in different settings and time periods. This is an anthology series, but across the first three issues you can’t help but notice connective tissue that may end up linking the stories across its 10 instalments.