There’s a moment early in this issue, where Sarah Connor is suffering from morning sickness, and future soldier Ben asks her if she’s pregnant. She turns towards Ben, with an incredibly visible baby bump, and tells him that, yes, she’s four months pregnant.

It’s a dumb moment, badly written and awkwardly drawn, and it’s typical of this issue, not to mention this series in general. The last issue ended with Sarah saying that she was going to get lots of guns, but there’s no payoff to that at all, as Skynet send another Terminator back just as Ben and Sarah rescue the captured, still breathing Kyle Reese.

If anything, this series proves why Reese surviving is such a bad idea. Both Ben and Reese seem to take agency away from Sarah, and the plan they come up with to proceed into the future is just…well, it’s as dumb and lazy as anything else you’ll read here.

Several of the Terminator movies tended to have a big problem with moving past the original film’s concept, constantly referencing and retreading what came before, but here it’s Genisys levels of dumb and, frankly, boring, being even less interesting than that timey-wimey misfire of a sequel.

Anyway, it’s crap and there have been plenty of better Terminator comics, though this one, written (badly) by a lesser known Whedon, seemed to be hyped up at the time of release for no good reason. It’s straight up bad, and it’s hard to see how the final issue will rescue it.