Terminator: Salvation Movie Prequel [Paperback]

Dara Naraghi (Author), Alan Robinson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 21, 2009 | Series: Terminator Salvation

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! Get a head start on this summer's exciting relaunch of the Terminator franchise! Terminator: Salvation, starring Christian Bale, is slated for release May 22, 2009!

Product Details

• Paperback: 104 pages
• Publisher: Idea & Design Works Llc (April 21, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1600104339
• ISBN-13: 978-1600104336
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,108,383 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More 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 writer/artist 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, and his Valentine's Day story appearing in the GHOSTBUSTERS: HAUNTED HOLIDAYS collection. His latest projects are WITCH & WIZARD: BATTLE FOR SHADOWLAND and WITCH & WIZARD: OPERATION ZERO, original graphic novels based on characters and settings from the James Patterson series of YA 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 - 18 volumes of their comics anthology, which he self-publishes under his Ferret Press imprint. For information on his latest project, check out www.FerretPress.com

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4.0 out of 5 stars Sci-Fi about the Age of the Machines, December 10, 2011

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This review is from: Terminator: Salvation Movie Prequel (Paperback)

The artwork on this was great and the storyline was interesting, even if not entirely meshing with what I've seen of the movies. A good book.

2.0 out of 5 stars Expected less and got it - sadly, June 15, 2011

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This review is from: Terminator: Salvation Movie Prequel (Paperback)

There is not much to note in the prequel editon of the Terminator:salvation series. I had high hopes for IDW because they do some really expert work on a lot of diffrent lines, but this seemed to fall through the cracks. Sadly it does some work on trying to do something but it does not seem to have the ability to go beyond what treasers the movie offers. You can really tell it has its hands tied.

Another thing I did not like it the fact that I expected a little more on the Terminator front. I know the T-600 is running amok and there are other lines we see, but these ar enot showcased that much. Before you think that this is because of the movie being followed, there were some other prequels put out. amongst them was the Machina seies and the Terminator novelization prequel, and both at least tried to lay foundations. To the "movie" credit, it did use T-70s and some other Terminators to tease you. The book also mentioned the fact that T-400s are outdated and that the T-600 and HK are strategy options and played out how that worked. In both of those you had an idea of the skynet scope. Here you feel a little of both sides and a little of none, not really caught in a struggle between them but in a struggle to compress pieces of movie hype into pages.

It could have been more.

If stoory of other options do not really matter, then art might. It was not a thing I would invest myself in, and i hate saying this. I love my T-series stuff, too much sometimes, but bad is ultimately bad. Not much else to say expect thank you for reading.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Amateurish effort, May 29, 2009

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danny boy "dbswongv" (Singapore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Terminator: Salvation Movie Prequel (Paperback)

This is a poorly scripted prequel. The storyline which is ill-served by the artwork is very weak, with patchwork resistance groups and their multi-plots inadequately weaved together except via sat-link. The extremely poor development of the characters and their cheesy dialogue before they are finally killed off is amateurishly done, and I am surprised that this effort is associated with such a major relaunch of the Terminator Movie franchise. Don't waste your money on this turkey.