It's 1961, and high above the launch pads of Florida and central Asia, the US and the USSR are racing to claim the ultimate high ground of space. America's accelerated program of manned missions, Project Mercury, is poised to put its first crews into orbit - but something even deadlier than Cold War rivalries may be hitching a ride!
Ground controllers DECLAN SHALVEY and JOE MULVEY orchestrate a flawless countdown of sci-fi suspense with The Terminator #5 - securely sealed in pressurized covers by SHALVEY, EDWIN GALMON, CAT STAGGS, and DAVID COUSENS!
In space no one can hear you say: Ill be back. The tense feeling of a struggle for survival in low orbit could have hit the page with much more intensity if Shalvey and company had simply ignored all of the backstory and focussed on the struggle between the terminator unit and the astronauts in space. The overall story would have lacked the elegance of the context, though. Shalvey was smart to lower the intensity of the struggle in space to allow the reader a bit more time to process the significance of what was going on in 1965. Read Full Review
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