Review: Explore how Terminator: Salvation came to be in a graphic prequel

The wrecked L.A. of the Terminator movies is pretty much a visual cliché at this point—the twisted rebar, broken concrete, bluish night sky. The look and feel of this future, depicted in three Terminator features so far and by a few episodes of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is defined by L.A. itself. I mean ... a post-nuke New York wouldn't look the way the future L.A. does in The Terminator , right? Which makes what the new IDW graphic novel Terminator: Salvation Movie Prequel (IDW Publishing, $17.99) promises for the upcoming Terminator: Salvation kind of refreshing. The conflict with Skynet is global, something that was glimpsed in The Sarah Connor Chronicles , and John Connor is leader of the human resistance, not the L.A. resistance. This graphic novel, which collects the individual four issues of the limited comic book series scripted by Ferret Press stalwart Dara Naraghi with illustrations by Alan Robinson, shows the worldwide fight against Skynet, and shows ... (link)