The Terminator returns with new comic book series in October

Back in April it was announced that Dynamite Entertainment had secured the Terminator comic book license from StudioCanal, and now the publisher has announced at San Diego Comic-Con International that acclaimed writer Declan Shalvey (ThunderCats) and artist Luke Sparrow (Star Trek) will launch the new series The Terminator this October – timed to the 40th anniversary of the original film’s release.

“The approach of this series is new situations, new dilemmas in each issue,” states Shalvey. “Mostly done-in-one stories, but as the series progresses there may be some recognizable faces…, 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. An unstoppable force is coming to kill you — that’s the element of the franchise I want to lean into.”

The first issue will be available with several covers, including offerings from Shalvey, Edwin Galmon, Joshua “Sway” Swaby, and David Cousens, along with a classic Terminator: Burning Earth ‘Icon Cover’ from a young Alex Ross…

The plans to kill Sarah Connor and her son John have failed, but that isn’t going to stop the genocidal Skynet. If at first it doesn’t succeed, it’s going to expand the theater of operations. There are still a few more avenues into the past to try that will allow it to eliminate the human resistance before it even starts. Skynet and its Terminators are determined to stamp out these pivotal figures in history before they lead to their processors being smashed into silicon shrapnel.

This new front in the time war comes with Terminators dispatched all across the globe and throughout time to target not only current resistance fighters but also their ancestors, as well as any unlucky souls caught in the crossfire. Though at first it may not seem that this wide range of secondary objectives are as straightforward or critical as the original missions of the T-800 and T-1000, the sheer scope of this new warfare defies that. Time is literally on Skynet’s side — when all of history becomes a war zone, suddenly nowhere — and no-when is safe!