Before the famous T-800 infiltration unit, with the most familiar variant featuring the T-101 skin (bearing Arnold Schwarzenegger’s likeness and voice), there was the T-600. Skynet’s earliest attempts at imitating humans and temporal displacement were thwarted by the rubbery skin of the T-600 model, and their tale is told in the sixth issue of the current Terminator comic series.

This issue is told from the point of view of Skynet and their T-600s, which is a fairly unique approach for The Terminator franchise, which of course tends to just about always take the human POV.

It’s an inventive and compelling issue, and it shows just how effective the done-in-one style stories can be. It’s so refreshing not just to have a Terminator series which doesn’t involve the Connors, but also one which truly mixes up its time periods and characters from issue to issue. It’s also good to see that the pointless backup strip has gone; it just didn’t work, and I’m glad the focus is now on a single story per issue, without a confusing and all-too-brief page or two of a follow up story to lessen its impact.

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