Terminator: Salvation Movie Prequel #4

The concluding chapter of "Sand in the Gears" arrives in striking fashion, with Nick Runge's cover depicting a skeletal Terminator endoskeleton — weapon in hand, glowing eyes fixed forward — standing in silhouette against a roiling wall of fire and smoke. It's a fittingly apocalyptic image to cap IDW's official prequel series leading into the 2009 film, rendered with a moody, almost painterly intensity. Fans eager for context before the movie hit theaters had good reason to pick this one up.