Declan Shalvey’s The Terminator series comes to a close in this tenth issue, with a calculated attack on the machines which goes disastrously wrong.

Shalvey’s Terminator comics have been hit and miss over the course of this series, with some odd short stories that didn’t make much sense, alongside slightly longer form tales that were pretty satisfying, and did a great job of bringing the T-800s back to being the relentless and, more importantly, terrifying killers we first knew them as.

This final issue pulls a similar trick to the rest of the series, in that it feels like  a standalone story right until its closing beat, at which point it becomes clear why we’re passengers observing this specific mission.

Is it good? It certainly comes together quite nicely in the end, but I must admit I was baffled that this was the story chosen for the final issue until then.

Let’s hope that Shalvey’s newly launched, limited series (The Terminator: Metal) is a bit more focused and consistent in its pacing than this somewhat variable, ten issue series.

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