A 1993 limited series "Hunters and Killers", set during the war, has special Terminators created to impersonate leaders in the Russian resistance. Another limited series, published in 1998, follows the misadventures of two malfunctioning Terminators in Death Valley. This set up the following year's comic "The Dark Years", set in 2030. In "The Dark Years", a Terminator is sent to eliminate John Connor and his mother in 1999. In 2013, Dark Horse released a sequel comic based on the 2009 film "Terminator Salvation", entitled "".