NOW Comics published 17 issues under the title The Terminator during 1988 to 1990.

The series is an anthology of stories featuring new characters fighting in John Connor's Resistance army against Skynet in 2031.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Issues 3 Collections 4 Chronology 5 Continuity notes 5.1 Machine features 6 Notes 7 References

Overview

Issues

Issue #1
"2031"

Issue #2
"The Flesh is Weak"

Issue #3
"If I Had a Rocket Launcher"

Issue #4
"Amahiri"

Issue #5
"The Bee Stings"

Issue #6
"Goin' Back to Miami"

Issue #7
"Big Bad Wolf"

Issue #8
"In the Belly of the Beast"

Issue #9
"Cocoa Beach, Part 1"

Issue #10
"Cocoa Beach, Part 2"

Issue #11
"Factories"

Issue #12
"Night Convoy"

Issue #13
"From the Journals of Timothy Reese, Mexico, 2067"

Issue #14
"Into the Deep Blue Sea"

Issue #15
"See Cuba and Die!"

Issue #16
"The Battle of Cuba"

Issue #17
"Escape to Silver Dollar"

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Collections

Chronology

• 2029 - Terminator: All My Futures Past, #1-2 (Aug. 1990 - Sep. 1990)
• 2031 - The Terminator (NOW Comics), #1–17 (Sep. 1988 - Feb. 1990)
• 2041 - Terminator: The Burning Earth, #1–5 (Mar. – July 1990)

Continuity notes

It should be noted that the stories presented here represent events in an alternate future with many deviations from the timelines established by later movies, novels, and television series.

• The NOW Comics Timeline deviates after the events of The Terminator and prior to the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

• Published from 1988 to 1990, these comics operated in a vaccuum, and contain numerous factual differeces from what would be later established as core canon for the franchise. Only the events of the first movie were available for use as reference material.
  • Because of this, the common errors of mixing Terminator model and series notation are repeated. Interestingly enough, "T-600s" are mentioned.

Machine features

• The NOW series takes considerable liberties with the looks and abilities of Skynet machines. Endoskeleton often like little more than human skeletons with with mechanical joints.
  • In issue#17, Endoskeletons were actually able to change their facial expression despite no evidence of organic tissue or liquid metal.
  • The bodies of Aerial Hunter-Killers are not as wide as in the movies and do not have the deep recess at the front. Their engines are farther from the main body; this makes them look more like modern unmanned drones.
  • Issues#2 and #3 show that they have cockpits with overriding manual controls, and also appear to have weapons on their engines.

• Terminators in the series seem to exhibit a wide range of emotions, including fear, which directly contradicts movie canon. They also show a great deal of personal autonomy, sometimes even going as far as to argue with Skynet.

Notes

• With a few exceptions, most Terminators in this series appear to be similar in appearance to Arnold Schwarzennegger, and generally wear matching leather jackets, grey pants, and sunglasses.

• In Terminator: The Burning Earth, more physical types of Terminator are added, though the uniforms stay.

• HK-Tanks do not appear at all until Terminator: The Burning Earth.

References