Summary
The Terminatoris back with an all-new series fromDynamite Entertainmentthat sees killer robots traveling all through human history asSkynet expands its efforts to wipe out humanity. The evil machines might have failed in their initial attempts to eliminate Sarah Connor and her son John, but the human resistance fighters have no shortage of ancestors that they can target.
The Terminator comes from writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow. It is set to arrive this October, which will mark the 40th anniversary of the release of James Cameron’s originalTerminatorfilm. In Dynamite’s announcement of the new series, Shalvey said that the firstTerminatormovie will inform the tone of his and Sparrow’s stories.
“We’re going for a more stripped-down, pulpy approach to the book. As innovative and groundbreaking as the first film was, it was also grounded in its environment, being noirish and moody as hell,” Shalvey said. “An unstoppable force is coming to kill you – that’s the element of the franchise I want to lean into.”
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Skynet Launches Its Most Exhaustive Attack Ever
Terminators Are Going Back Through All Of Human History
In the firstTerminatormovie, Skynet sends a T-800 model Terminator back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor. After that proves unsuccessful,Terminator 2: Judgment Daysees a T-1000 model being sent to 1995 to kill John himself. In this new series,Skynet expands its theater of operations, trying different time periods in history that will stamp out the human resistance before it can even start. Terminators will be dispatched across the globe and throughout time to target resistance fighters and their ancestors, as well as anyone else unlucky enough to be caught in the crossfire.
“The approach of this series is new situations, new dilemmas in each issue,” Shalvey said. “Mostly done-in-one stories, but as the series progresses there may be some recognizable faces…”
At first glance, the wide range of targets that Skynet has set in its crosshairs may not initially seem as critical or straightforward as the Terminators’ original missions. But this new theater of war is truly unprecedented in its sheer scope. In its announcement, Dynamite teases, “Time is literally on Skynet’s side – when all of history becomes a war zone, suddenly nowhere and no-when is safe!”
Shalvey is the writer behind Dynamite’s recentThunderCatsrelaunch, and has also worked as a writer and artist on titles likeAlien,Old DogandTime Before Time. Sparrow is a rising star who has worked onStar TrekandOld Dog: Operations. The series will also feature covers by Shalvey, as well as variants by Edwin Galmon, Joshua “Sway” Swaby and David Cousens. The first issue will feature an “Icon Cover” by comics legend Alex Ross, with artwork from his very first comics work,Terminator: Burning Earth.
In celebration ofThe Terminator’s 40th anniversary, Dynamite also recently completed a six-figure BackerKit campaign toreprint classicTerminatorcomics from the late 1980s. Now, this latestDynamiteseries shows that, just like its titular cyborg assassins,The Terminatorfranchise is truly unstoppable.
The Terminator
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The Terminator, directed by James Cameron and released in 1984, features a cyborg assassin sent back in time to eliminate Sarah Connor, the mother of a future resistance leader. As the relentless machine pursues its mission, a human warrior is sent to protect her and secure humanity’s survival.
