TERMINATOR: SECTOR WAR #4
Recap
Lucy takes the fight to the Metropolitan Transit Authority in an attempt to find something to combat her implacable foe. After a night on the streets and making a deal with the devil to beat her opponent and save her life and that of her unborn child, she finally faces the seeming unbeatable relentless machine alone and takes more desperate measures to end her torment. After barely surviving her ordeal she hears news of another similar incident in Los Angeles and makes a decision to compare notes with Sarah Connor.
Review
Writing: Once again another huge gap between the previous issue and this one. Given this was the finale I felt the pacing to be somewhat lacking and I found myself hardly even caring what happened. Unlike Terminator: Sector War #3 the action and pacing was way off in comparison to the rest of the series and there was so little actual narrative it could easily have all been covered in the previous instalment. The basis of the finale of the story resulted in her being tailed into Port Authority, where she was heading at the end of last issue, and coming up against her pursuer taking the ‘Ripley way’ with the aid of a piece of heavy work machinery. Whereupon she drives it over a cliff into the ocean. Hardly the definition of a cliffhanger despite the setting. Anyone who knows anything about the Terminator knows this is hardly a conclusive way to finish the machine even remotely permanently.
Final Thoughts
Some amazing art that sadly falls apart without the solid foundation of actual written narrative.
Terminator: Sector War #4 Train in Vain
- Writing - 6/106/10
- Storyline - 8.5/108.5/10
- Art - 10/1010/10
- Color - 10/1010/10
- Cover Art - 10/1010/10