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Terminator Salvation: Movie Adaptation #0B                                   Variant Comic
Writer: Jeff Mariotte
Artist: Don Figueroa
Colorist: Art Lyon
Letterer: Neil Uyetake
Editors: Chris Ryall & Tom Waltz
Variant Cover #0B by: Don Figueroa

Terminator Salvation is a 2009 American military science fiction action film directed by McG and written by John Brancato and Michael Ferris. It is the fourth installment of the Terminator franchise and serves as a sequel to Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003). This is the first and only Terminator film to date not to feature Arnold Schwarzenegger, though his likeness briefly appears digitally. Instead, it stars Christian Bale and Sam Worthington, with Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood, Bryce Dallas Howard, Common, Michael Ironside, and Helena Bonham Carter in supporting roles. In a departure from the previous installments, Salvation is a post-apocalyptic film set in the year 2018. It focuses on the war between Skynet’s machine network and humanity, as the remnants of the world’s militaries have united to form the Resistance to fight against Skynet. Bale portrays John Connor, a Resistance fighter and central character, while Worthington portrays cyborg Marcus Wright. Yelchin plays a young Kyle Reese, a character first introduced in The Terminator, and the film depicts the origins of the T-800 Terminator.

Being released a month before the 2009 Terminaor Salvation movie, the fight against Skynet enters its latest phase, post-Judgment Day! This comic presents readers with a first look at John Connor’s battle here in this teaser issue featuring 22 pages of Terminator action illustrated by Transformers artist supreme Don Figueroa.

Story/Spoilers
In 2003, Dr. Serena Kogan of Cyberdyne Systems convinces death row inmate Marcus Wright to sign over his body for medical research following his execution. Sometime later, the automated Skynet system is activated and becomes self-aware; perceiving humans as a threat to its existence, it starts a nuclear holocaust to eradicate them in the event known as “Judgment Day”.

In 2018, John Connor orchestrates an attack on a Skynet base, where he discovers prisoners and schematics in a laboratory for incorporating living tissue to a new type of Terminator, which he recognizes as the T-800 model. John survives an explosion on the base, which is destroyed. Following John’s departure, Marcus emerges from the base’s wreckage and begins walking toward Los Angeles.

John returns to the Resistance headquarters located aboard a nuclear submarine and is briefed by General Ashdown that the Resistance has discovered a hidden signal containing a code protocol that they believe can initiate a shutdown of Skynet’s machines. The Resistance plans to launch an offensive against Skynet’s headquarters in San Francisco. It is decided among the Resistance that the offensive will commence in four days, due to an intercepted kill-list created by Skynet, which plans to kill the Resistance’s leaders within the same time frame. John learns he is second on this list, following Kyle Reese. The Resistance leaders do not understand Kyle’s importance, but John knows that Kyle will eventually travel back in time and become his father and realizes that Skynet has learned of this fact.

Arriving at the ruins of Los Angeles, Marcus encounters Kyle and a mute child named Star during a skirmish with Skynet’s machines…

Variant Comic is bagged & triple boarded and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly.

First Printing
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Publication Date: April 2009
Format: FC, 32 pages, Comic, 10.20″ x 6.65″
UPC: 827714000610

Collectible Entertainment note: Variant Comic 0B is in Fine + condition.  Very Nice!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Terminator collector and/or enthusiast.  A fun & entertaining read.  Highly Recommended.

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