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Terminators have visited important moments of the 20th and 21st centuries during this series. They went deep into the ocean in a submarine, out to space in a shuttle, they’ve appeared in the US, Vietnam, and now Poland. Specifically, it’s going to a concentration camp in 1944.

Once again, the Terminator is hunting for someone and doing a terrible job at keeping a low profile. As the guards try to find two escaped prisoners, the Terminator seeks out a specific man and won’t let anyone, guards or otherwise, stop him.

In this issue of Terminator, writer Declan Shalvey turns up the doom and gloom factor quite high. It’s set during an atrocious time and place in history, making the Terminator only one of the monsters in the book. At the beginning and the end, Shalvey writes about the ways we impact history, particularly the bad ways.

Artist David O’Sullivan and colorist Colin Craker continue the point with a cold, dreary setting in a primarily black, white, and tan color scheme. As a result, the Terminator’s glowing red eyes really pop.

Since Terminator has been a set of one-shots, the only tying factor has been the hunter and its prey, but this issue has a key moment that reveals how they are tied together. It also makes the reader question how many more places in history the Terminators have visited.

–Amanda Sheriff