The Terminator: The Enemy Within

The Terminator graphic novels

by Ian Edginton, Vincent Giarrano (Illustrator)

This volume collects the sizzling four-issue miniseries written by Ian Edginton, illustrated by Vince Giarrano and colored by Steve Buccellato. Dudley, the half-human/half-Terminator, must fight impulses from his computer half that pressure him to eliminate the humans Mary Randall and Astin. With another Terminator still on their trail, the three must quickly decide whom to trust, and how to fight Terminators on both ends of the timeline!

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

117 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Edginton sees part of the key to his success coming from good relationships with artists, especially D'Israeli and Steve Yeowell as well as Steve Pugh and Mike Collins. He is best known for his steampunk/alternative history work (often with the artist D'Israeli) and is the co-creator of Scarlet Traces, a sequel to their adaptation of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. With 2000 AD we has written Leviathan, Stickleback and, with art by Steve Yeowell, The Red Seas as well as one-off serials such as American Gothic (2005).

His stories often have a torturous gestation. Scarlet Traces was an idea he had when first reading The War of the Worlds, its first few instalments appeared on Cool Beans website, before being serialised in the Judge Dredd Megazine. Also The Red Seas was initially going to be drawn by Phil Winslade and be the final release by Epic but Winslade was still tied up with Goddess and when ideas for replacement artists were rejected Epic was finally wound up - the series only re-emerging when Edginton was pitching ideas to Matt Smith at the start of his 2000 AD career.

With D'Israeli he has created a number of new series including Stickleback, a tale of a strange villain in an alternative Victorian London, and Gothic, which he describes as "Mary Shelley's Doc Savage". With Simon Davis he recently worked on a survival horror series, Stone Island, and he has also produced a comic version of the computer game Hellgate: London with Steve Pugh.

He is currently working on a dinosaurs and cowboys story called Sixgun Logic. Also as part of Top Cow's Pilot Season he has written an Angelus one-shot.

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Reviews

[Little Timmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice read and a good addition to the Terminator saga. Recommended

[Gonzalo Oyanedel · Rating 2 out of 5]

La secuela a la miniserie "Objetivos Secundarios" funciona a medias. Diálogos esquemáticos, situaciones predecibles y un aire a serie televisiva noventera le restan bastante interés, si bien gana algunos puntos con su acción trepidante e intenso final. Solo para fanáticos.

[Sloe · Rating 2 out of 5]

After fun and inventive first 2 volumes, the 3rd seemed doubly promising with Edginton's name on the cover - but while he did go on to write great stuff, it was not in this book. Baffling design choices (horned terminator?), glaring contradictions (human heroes once more travelling through time using the same machine that was confirmed to be damaged in the second book), and nonsensical plot (every character's motivation seems to be reaching other characters to fight them, and they are unerringly guided there by often nothing more than the narrative imperative). At least it's a quick, light read, and some scenes that are not just big explosions showcase Edginton's budding talent

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Enemy Within. The main thing this sequence of stories had going for it was the idea of the half-Terminator character, and he gets some good attention in this newest arc as he fights against his robot nature. But, that's surrounded by yet another Terminator from the future (with horns? why does he have horns?) and yet another militia team from the future (why?) and yet another run at Cyberdyne and yet another pyrrhic ending where it appears that the technology to start this up again is still there. It's all just a little repetitive [3/5].

[Phil · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fine rainy day reading. The robot with the large devil horns was a bit over the top for me. As was very bosom-y women from the hiding/starving future.

[Martti · Rating 4 out of 5]

Continuing the 4 part series that started with Tempest and Secondary Objectives. It's one of those rare graphic novels that is actually pretty well written and also drawn decently.

[Steven Shinder · Rating 3 out of 5]

The half-human Terminator was an interesting idea. But I can't decide whether I like or dislike the design of the Terminator with horns. Made him look like a punk devil and feels very of the time.

[Duncs Comics · Rating 3 out of 5]

Horned Terminator may just be the gnarliest thing I've ever seen, followed by police Terminator and gatling gun Terminator, who also happen to be in this book! The whole thing is pretty punk rock.

[Tim · Rating 3 out of 5]

ok ok I was sooo into it in the beginning. the Terminator looked insane, my fav character was getting more character development but I'm sorry the ending of this series omggggg I will kicking a tablw

[James madden · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good action follows straight from secondary objectives

[Brett Marcus Cook · Rating 2 out of 5]

One of these stars is solely for the number of cops that the spiky horned Terminator kills. The other star is for how well those scenes are drawn compared to everything else.

[Riley Jones · Rating 3 out of 5]

Humans are the REAL villains….

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Worth reading.