Terminator: Salvation Movie Prequel

The Terminator graphic novels

by Dara Naraghi, Alan Robinson (Artist)

The year is 2018. With John Connor as the voice of the resistance, the scattered remnants of humanity find themselves united against their common enemy - Skynet and its Terminators. Through a patchwork system of radio transmitters, hacked satellite phones, and encrypted computer networks, resistance leader Elena Maric in Detroit and Nigerian mining engineer Bem Aworuwa have formed an unlikely friendship and drawn up battle plans to take the fight to the Terminators!

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Science Fiction

104 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Dara Naraghi was born in Iran, but has made Columbus, Ohio his home for most of his life. His debut graphic novel LIFELIKE, a collection of slice-of-life vignettes, garnered many positive reviews from the likes of award-winning novelist Cory Doctorow, and cartoonist Sam Kieth.

His other notable graphic novels include: TERMINATOR SALVATION official movie prequel (3 weeks on the NYT Best Sellers list), THE ABSURD ADVENTURES OF ARCHIBALD AARDVARK, WITCH & WIZARD: BATTLE FOR SHADOWLAND (2 weeks on the NYT Best Sellers list) and WITCH & WIZARD: OPERATION ZERO, original graphic novels based on characters and settings from the James Patterson series of YA novels. His current project is the award-winning PERSIA BLUES trilogy of graphic novels.

Dara is also a founding member of the Columbus, Ohio-based comic book writers/artists collective known as PANEL. To date, he has contributed stories to - and helped produce - 20 volumes of their comics anthology, which he self-publishes under his Ferret Press imprint. For information on his latest project, check out www.DaraNaraghi.com

Reviews

[David Finger · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really wasn’t impressed with the movie Terminator Salvation and this prequel didn’t do much to change my view on the overall weakness of the film. Sadly the characters felt one dimensional and the story was uninspiring and predictable. The author did try and create some conflict with the various diverse human actors who are forced to put aside their prejudices to work together to defeat the machines, but other than the conflict between Yusuf, the Syrian soldier in Niger and the French doctor, these conflicts felt artificial and proved to be more of a distraction. Overall I’d have to give it a pass. The graphic novel doesn’t change my view of the movie and had I never seen the film I don’t think this book would inspire me to watch it.

[Amanda · Rating 2 out of 5]

Winter 2020 (December);

I read this as research for a project this month, but sadly this fell flat from basically the moment it started until the last page of closing the story. All I really got out of this is that people worshipped the ground John walked on and needed to spend some time making ugly faces about the fact they were not the ones kissing him.

This had another one of those endings that is rare for fiction, but incredibly common among the Terminator universe for anyone who is not a Connor.

[Brenda · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was kind of hard to read. It seemed to be all over the place, and I didn't really care about any of the characters or what happened to them. I wanted to care, but this book just didn't give me the chance.

[Bob]

good

[Tom Marshall · Rating 3 out of 5]

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