Image credit: Dynamite Entertainment
For the past few weeks, in honor of Terminator’s 40th anniversary, I’ve been rereading the original Terminator comics published by Dark Horse in the early 90s. Considering they were written and drawn at a time when the only material available was the first Terminator movie, they were very close to the formula set in James Cameron’s 1984 classic. In other words, it’s much more like the dark-toned, ultra-violent, horror-adjacent first film, rather than the action-packed T2 that wasn’t born yet, like Terminator’s John Connor. That’s what it means.
So how do you reboot the Terminator with a new comic book series, considering there are currently six Terminator movies, a Netflix animated series, and even a live-action TV show?
Well, the good thing is that writer Declan Shalvey knows what not to do. The trap many sequels fall into is that John and Sarah Connor, and (with one notable exception, he still appears) Schwarzenegger model T-800 (T-101 is the The focus is on the serial number of a particular model. , if you want to explain the details).
Shalvey wisely moves us away from the theater of war, and even away from the theater of war altogether, resulting in a tense and fairly low-key time story that finally catches up with an elderly couple living in the countryside, far from much of the devastation. Masu. It’s a story that spans decades, from pre-Judgment Day America to the distant past of a nuclear event that starts a war against the machines.
The story is beautifully told with incredible artwork by Luke Sparrow and Colin Craker (the latter also did the coloring, giving the story a very natural look).
At first glance, it seems complete, but at the heart of the couple’s story is a mystery that remains unsolved until the end. Could we see this continue? This is certainly a thread I wouldn’t mind revisiting.
There’s also a back-up story, “Buried Alive,” which is just two pages long. Thankfully, this article will continue in the next issue. Because I have no idea what’s actually going on in this article. It’s very weird and I don’t know if I’m moving slowly or if the drawings aren’t making the story clear, but I really don’t know what happened in the last panel.
Still, that doesn’t take away from how fascinating and brilliantly told the first story is. Out of Time, as the name suggests, was the perfect way to start a whole new spin on Terminator comics, something that most of the filmmakers involved with this story couldn’t avoid. It seems to avoid many pitfalls.
Note: I must also point out the ridiculousness of Dynamite’s publishing strategy. When I saw the cover gallery at the end of the comic and a whole page of different covers for Terminator #1, I thought, this is a ridiculous number of different covers on offer. There are two more pages of variation covers after this…
Image credit: Dynamite Entertainment
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