Winter 2020 (December);

I read this as research for a project this month, but sadly this fell flat from basically the moment it started until the last page of closing the story. All I really got out of this is that people worshipped the ground John walked on and needed to spend some time making ugly faces about the fact they were not the ones kissing him.

This had another one of those endings that is rare for fiction, but incredibly common among the Terminator universe for anyone who is not a Connor. ( )

The artwork is the typical new computer style. The story is thin and the relationships between characters are too contrived. They tried to fit too much into this slim volume. It just doesn't have enough substance to be anything other than average comic book fare. That said, if you're a hardcore Terminator fan, you'll still want to read it. ( )

Terminator: Salvation Movie Prequel (story arc titled, "Sand in the Gears") focuses on human resistance fighters, primarily in the locations of Detroit, Michigan, and Arlit, Niger. Leads into Terminator: Salvation movie (2009), but only in an indirect way. John Connor is heard broadcasting via radio to his fellow resistance fighers in this series (as he does in the movie), and is also seen in a few flashback scenes with one of the characters here, but otherwise is not present. Several of the models of Terminators introduced in the movie are also seen here.

Average enough (actually, "okay", at best), but hardly essential reading. Basically just fleshes out what others in the resistance are doing during this period. Art wise, perhaps not surprisingly, the artist (Robinson) does a better job of drawing the various Terminators and associated technology than he does the human characters.

Trade paperback edition also includes Terminator: Salvation Movie Adaptation Teaser #0, a one-shot apparently reprinting just the first part of the movie (which is what makes it a "teaser", I suppose). Didn't read this as I initially thought that it was a preview for a longer movie adaptation mini-series and I don't usually read such previews. Glancing through it, the art does look better than that of the prequel mini, though. ( )