Terminator: Salvation Movie Prequel #1-4

Terminator: Salvation Movie Prequel #1-4, Terminator: Salvation Movie Adaptation Teaser #0 [Grand Comics Database links: 1, 2, 3, 4, 0; Comic Book Database: 1, 1(a), 2, 3, 3(a), 4, 4(a), 0]
(February through March 2009, April 2009)
IDW Publishing
(Version read: Terminator: Salvation Movie Prequel trade paperback edition (2009) [LibraryThing] [Amazon])

Credits:
Writers: (Prequel #1-4) Dara Naraghi; (Teaser #0) Jeff Mariotte
(Teaser: "Based on the motion picture written by": John Brancato and Michael Ferris)
Penciller: (Prequel #1-4) Alan Robinson; (Teaser #0) Don Figueroa
Inker: (Prequel #1-4) Alan Robinson; (Teaser #0) Don Figueroa

Series Notes: Terminator: Salvation Movie Prequel: Numbers 1-4 of a 4-issue limited series. Most (if not all) issues originally released with both regular and variant covers (primary cover artist: Nick Runge); Terminator: Salvation Movie Adaptation Teaser: One-shot.

Comments: Terminator: Salvation Movie Prequel (story arc titled, "Sand in the Gears") focuses on human resistance fighters, primarily in the locations of Detroit, Michigan, and Arlit, Niger. Leads into Terminator: Salvation movie (2009), but only in an indirect way. John Connor is heard broadcasting via radio to his fellow resistance fighers in this series (as he does in the movie), and is also seen in a few flashback scenes with one of the characters here, but otherwise is not present. Several of the models of Terminators introduced in the movie are also seen here.

Average enough (actually, "okay", at best), but hardly essential reading. Basically just fleshes out what others in the resistance are doing during this period. Art wise, perhaps not surprisingly, the artist (Robinson) does a better job of drawing the various Terminators and associated technology than he does the human characters.

Trade paperback edition also includes Terminator: Salvation Movie Adaptation Teaser #0, a one-shot apparently reprinting just the first part of the movie (which is what makes it a "teaser", I suppose). Didn't read this as I initially thought that it was a preview for a longer movie adaptation mini-series and I don't usually read such previews. Glancing through it, the art does look better than that of the prequel mini, though.

(Finished reading 5/31/09)