[Guest reviewer Zach King writes about movies at The Cinema King and about comics on Instagram at Dr. King’s Comics.]

In an earlier review, I had quietly observed that my first encounter with the Terminator franchise was in a crossover comic. (I’ve mentioned it twice, actually.) Our gracious host noticed, and so it is at his invitation that this review finds me revisiting a staple of my early comics diet, a crossover mini I read ad infinitum when it hit the stands in 1999.

Even though I had never seen a Terminator film, all the same I was fascinated by Superman vs. The Terminator: Death to the Future, written by Alan Grant and illustrated by Steve Pugh & Mike Perkins. Surely I was aware of the iconography of Terminators - skeletal killer robots from a near and inevitable future - but I’m certain that I didn’t watch one of the films until 2003’s Rise of the Machines. I can’t recall exactly what made me start there, but I’m certain Superman had something to do with it.