Terminator Omnibus: Volume 2, The (2008)
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Fiction Review by The Gravedigger
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10.19.09
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I'm not as impressed by this as the first Omnibus, particularly with the artwork, which is more "cartoony". The first story, HUNTERS AND KILLERS, takes place with a group of the Resistance in Siberia. There's a new type of Terminator discovered. It has more realistic flesh and a ceramic endoskeleton so they are harder to identify as machines. ENDGAME picks up the story of the surviving characters from the first collection, Mary and Dudley. Mary is trying to adapt to live in the "present" and hasn't heard from the part cyborg Dudley in a while. There are still Terminators after Sarah Connor, who is giving birth to her child at a hospital. And it's up to Mary to save them. There is an interesting twist when we find out that Sarah gives birth to a daughter instead, so this is an entirely different reality. The last story, THE DARK YEARS, bounces back and forth between John Connor in 1999 and John Connor in 2030.
Because it's alluded to that all these stories may be taking place in "alternate realities" and not the reality created in the movies, it's like "so what?", anything can happen. They tales simply aren't satisfying.
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Rating: nan out of 10.0 - votes cast total
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