In this second issue of The Terminator: 2029, the survivors have lost their home base, and stumble upon another group of human survivors. However, the new group seem to want to take reckless risks for kicks, and Reese is understandably not keen to join in on the ‘fun’; yet they find something very unexpected within a Skynet facility.

This second issue isn’t a great deal better than the first, in all honesty. The art suffers from a lack of storytelling clarity in a few notable sequences, and Zack Whedon’s script just doesn’t take the story into particularly uncharted territory for the most part (even reporting to directly referencing a line from the original Terminator that’s already been driven into the ground in the movie sequels).

Despite this, it does have a killer twist that you’re very unlikely to see coming, and it does at least take the story beyond the too-predictable, oft-covered territory it’s been in thus far.

On the strength of that cliffhanger alone, I’ll be back.