Recent comical books

  Zack Whedon just finished up the three issue run of Terminator: 1984.  I'm going to admit, I was underwhelmed.
  Zack Whedon is not the most well-known of his family, but I am firmly of the mindset that "Breaking Bad" is a wonderful tv show, which  gives him a chance to exercise a very quirky kind of humour.  So, when I saw that the new Terminator series from Dynamite press was going to have him as writer, I thought this might be a hell of a ride.  I've been a big fan of the whole Terminator franchise since the 80s, when I was "too young to be watching things like that."  Haha, dad, look how well I turned out!!!!  Er.....maybe not.......
  Anywhoo, T:1984 takes off from the end of the first film, and mixes in one version of the future where Kyle Reese is sent back, with the days and months after Sarah presses the first T-800 to death.  We follow another soldier in Jon Connor's future army who is sent back and shadows events in the end of the first film, then affects events after the first film ends.  I'm not partial to the plot (which changes a lot of what we understand to have happened between the first and second movies in ways that wouldn't mesh at all with the script of the second), and it's a very standard idea which I expected to be done years ago.  I was happy to see they didn't pull punches with the violence, but then again, it wasn't anything spectacular either. 
  Highland Laddies, meanwhile, is a pretty good side story from the Boys, following Hughie as he takes time away from NYC to come to grasp with what's going on in his life.  It's meant to run concurrently to the issues of the Boys now coming out, which allows Garth Ennis to flesh out Hughie a bit without breaking the pace of his main story.  I can't say I'm surprised, as I expected Hughie to be the one to get as spin-off if anyone did, and the story's not bad.  It keeps Ennis' standard mix of violence and messed-up humour, but touches more on how Wee H. is affected by the parts of his job which he's been trying to turn a blind eye to.
  I just got my head shoved into my girlfriend's sweatshirt, so I guess a nipple in the eye socket is a none-too-subtle clue to go watch a movie with her.   More of this later...