In 1961, a Russian submarine is on a top secret mission, but unbeknownst to the crew, one of them is a cybernetic infiltration unit from the future: a Terminator. Will any of them be able to survive the onslaught from the relentless machine, and complete their mission?

It’s crazy that Declan Shalvey has made The Terminator feel completely fresh in each story so far, all while sticking to the more horror-adjacent feel of the first movie. The Terminators in these stories are terrifying, which is, of course, as it should be. With no reprogrammed T-800s to offer support, the humans targeted in each tale are in practically impossible fights for survival; transplant that to the tight confines of a submarine deep underwater, and you’ve got one hell of a tense story on your hands.

I know that the big attraction of the Terminator movies is, and pretty much always has been (with a notable exception or two), Arnold Schwarzenegger, but reading these comics makes me really wish that the series had been able to move off its well worn path and go somewhere completely new (incidentally, I’m still baffled by the backup story in these issues, which I’m sure will make sense if I read it all at once, but the few pages it gets each month just make it needlessly confusing, and a weak addition considering how strong the main story is).

Anyway, The Terminator comics are great, go read them. Or I’ll send a cyborg through time to harass you until you do.

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