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Terminator: The Burning Earth was originally published in 1990 by NOW comics as a five-issue mini-series featuring new characters fighting in John Connor's Resistance army against Skynet.

Overview[]

In 2041, John "Bear" Connor and the human Resistance race to stop Skynet from using its nuclear stockpile to finally annihilate the human race.

The story continues from Skynet's perspective of completing final tests of the Aurora model terminator.

Issues[]

Characters[]

Resistance Skynet


Mentioned[]

Collections[]

The series has been collected as a trade paperback a number of times:

  • Terminator: The Burning Earth: Graphic Novel (Caputo Publishing, May 1990, ISBN 0-942759-04-4)
  • Terminator: The Burning Earth (128 pages, iBooks, January 2004, ISBN 0-7434-7927-0)
  • Terminator: The Burning Earth (128 pages, iBooks, January 2006, ISBN 1-59687-820-7)
  • Terminator: The Burning Earth (136 pages, Dark Horse Comics, November 2013, ISBN 978-1616552770)

Creative team[]

  • Written by Ron Fortier
  • Illustrated by Alex Ross

Chronology[]

Continuity notes[]

Notes[]

  • The Burning Earth is a radical visual departure from the earlier NOW Terminator series. Whereas the seventeen-issue series was more cartoonish in its style, Alex Ross' artwork is far more realistic, cinematic, and dark. Also, while the other series was more free with its Endoskeleton and HK designs, The Burning Earth rigidly adheres to how they are portrayed in the first movie.
  • Terminators in this series are far less gregarious and emotive than in the seventeen-issue NOW series. Nevertheless, one Terminator in issue five clearly exhibits fear when it realizes that it's about to blown up.
  • This series features a new form of Terminator, the Sweeper, which appears in jet black segmented armor and has a single red, glowing eye piece. The Terminator RPG would give background detail for this new unit and classify it as Series 000.
  • The final scene of the series suggests either that Skynet's destruction as not complete or that a number of Terminators could act independently of the supercomputer's direct control. There was never an official follow-up to the story.

Trivia[]

  • The series is Alex Ross' first published comic work.

References[]

  1. Alex Ross stated in a Wizard Magazine retrospective on his career that one of his key interests in the project was that he once had a crush on original Sarah Connor actress Linda Hamilton: "I was such a huge 'Beauty and the Beast' fan and I was so deeply in love with Linda Hamilton that I thought I'll do it for Linda 'cause I love her so". In light of this, it is noteworthy that his hyper-realistic art style (although still in its early development) depicts the adult John Connor with a striking resemblance to Hamilton, something especially noticeable on the cover of the final issue. -Wizard's Alex Ross: Millennium Edition Special,1999 , p.53
  2. Comic was written before series/model number designations were clarified. This model of Terminator is described in The Terminator RPG and is a different version of a T-808 than the version in the Card Game

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