The Terminator: Secondary Objectives

The Terminator graphic novels

by James Robinson, Paul Gulacy (Illustrator), Karl Kesel (Illustrator)

Like the title says, John Connor is no longer the objective. Now, Sarah Connor is the target, and several 'Terminators' from the future show up to carry out this mission. Who will stop them?

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Fiction

117 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1992

About the author

James Dale Robinson is a British writer of American comic books and screenplays.

Reviews

[Little Timmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice read. If you are a terminator fan these short arc stories are very well done. Recommended

[Tim · Rating 4 out of 5]

honestly I really liked I825 inner battle and wished they focused a tad little bit more on that but overall and other fun Terminator story:)

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 3 out of 5]

Secondary Objectives. The cool thing about Robinson's second outing is that he directly continues on from "Tempest", in particular returning to our surviving freedom fighters. The uncool thing is that the plot goes absolutely nowhere. Two more Terminators return from the future, for reasons and in ways not entirely obvious, and so our fighters have to blow them up too. There's also a bit of a MacGuffin hunt going on for Sarah Connor. The only things that saves this arc are interesting characterization and exciting action [3/5].

[Honey Rose007 · Rating 5 out of 5]

So I do like this book I couldn’t read a lot since it’s a lot of reading and I’m more of a art guy and the art in this comic is so good. I did skim through some of the reading, but to have a woman terminator is great and influenced the show and the 3rd movie, one of my guilty pleasures, I just like the 90s artwork. But I do think a reboot of adapting this for film would be awesome have a woman terminator with 80s vibes, the action is top tier great comics that should be adapted on screen. Since the franchise is kind of bad at the moment

[Malcolm Cox · Rating 2 out of 5]

A direct continuation on book 1, this attempts to further the plot - but goes nowhere. There's a fair bit of explosive action, but it's mostly disjointed and irrelevant to the 'plot'. The only character that has any development is a terminator. Very disappointed. This is best described as a filler episode if it were a TV show.

[Martti · Rating 4 out of 5]

Continuation of the story from the Tempest. It's totally pointless to name it something else. Just adds confusion. Luckily there's a list so you can read in the correct order. https://www.goodreads.com/series/1959...

I've waited 30 years to finally be able to read the continuation of Tempest's story line and it's awesome. All thanks to the latest Humble Bundle!

[Steven Shinder · Rating 3 out of 5]

This feels like such a '90s book, or maybe a '90s book with '80s sensibilities. eye-roll-worthy stuff aside, it's kind of messy like the previous book. I do like that Sarah Connor is becoming part of the plot. Her letter at the end with the F you to machines was a nice way to punctuate things.

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice follow up to Tempest, but doesn't add too much to the overall story arc. Some nice set piece moments, and additions to the lore however

[Phil · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rainy afternoon reading.

[James madden · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good second part to terminator tempest.

[Riley Jones · Rating 4 out of 5]

Follows on from Terminator: Tempest, with most of the same characters (including Randall and Dudley), but the action’s moved to Mexico, where a certain Sarah Connor might be.
Still good.

[Travis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dark Horse comics did a great job making comics based on movies.
The Terminator stories captured the feel of the movies and then built on that without messing with things or any need to say 'The movie got it wrong, we are going to fix things' that some comics based on other properties can do.

Thin plot, great art and a ton of action.

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Worth reading.