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Thursday, March 27, 2014

Comic Review: Terminator: Enemy of My Enemy #1/#2

Terminator: Enemy of My Enemy #1 (Jamal Igle cover)
Writer: Dan Jolley
Penciller: Jamal Igle
Inker: Ray Snyder
Cover Artist: Jamal Igle
Genre: Action/Adventure, Science-Fiction
Publication Date: February 19, 2014
Format: FC, 32 pages; Miniseries
Price: $3.99
UPC: 7 61568 24901 9 00111
In 1984, Kyle Reese protected Sarah Connor from a cyborg that would stop at nothing to terminate her. In 1985, Skynet targets a scientist whose discoveries threaten its future, but this time there is no resistance fighter sent back to face it! With only enemies around her, what chance does Elise Fong stand against the perfect killing machine?
* Fan-favorite writer Dan Jolley (Bloodhound, Prototype 2)!
* Supergirl artist Jamal Igle !


Terminator: Enemy of My Enemy #2Writer: Dan Jolley
Penciller: Jamal Igle
Inker: Ray Snyder
Colorist: Moose Baumann
Cover Artist: Jamal Igle
Genre: Action/Adventure, Science-Fiction
Dark Horse
Publication Date: March 19, 2014
Format: FC, 32 pages; Miniseries
Price: $3.99
UPC: 7 61568 24901 9 00211
Biotechnician Elise Fong is destined to discover a vital weapon against the Terminators, and Skynet has no intention of waiting until she does! Targeted for actions in her future, Fong’s only hope in the present is the ex-CIA operative tasked with kidnapping her. But can even CIA training stop a T-800?

To this day, Terminator 2: Judgment Day remains one of my all-favorite movies. I hadn't seen the first Terminator movie at the time its sequel hit theaters, but that didn't matter. Arnold Schwarzenegger as a cyborg sent back in time to protect the leader of a human resistance against machines? A thirteen-year-old boy hears a premise like that and he's on board, no questions asked.

The sequels beyond that, however...sigh. Sufficed to say they've fallen well short of the mark. So maybe a different medium is needed to recapture that boyhood wonder. Enter The Terminator: Enemy of My Enemy.

Set in 1985, shortly after the events of the original Terminator film, a new T-800 has arrived from the future, only this time Skynet sends it in search of a scientist in New York City. Cosmetically different than the first Terminator, there's no sign of Arnold. There's no sign of Sarah Conner, either. This is a completely divergent storyline here, featuring a new protagonist in the form of a female super agent named Farrow Greene, tasked with delivering Dr. Elise Fong to her employers safe and sound, no questions asked. But when she runs afoul of the T-800, questions abound.

The first issue wound up being a bit underwhelming for me, in so much that I had sky-high expectations for a Terminator story. Maybe I should have lowered the expectations a bit given the lackluster productions from years past, but Dan Jolley is a heckuva writer, and while he's honed in on a ass-kicking female protagonist, this inaugural issue just fell a bit short of getting me on the bandwagon. A metric ton of action, however, kept me engaged going into the second issue.

And that's where things really heat up. Dr. Fong is holding information back from Greene, even when it seems the T-800 and other forces are at work to put her six feet under. Throw in a flash-forward that offers a new twist to the backstory on this one, further contextualizing the Termintor universe as a whole, and I'm definitely on the bandwagon to see how the third issue shapes up.

4 Sheep 




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