Summary

• Dynamite is launching a new Terminator series that explores killer robots traveling through human history to wipe out humanity.
• Writer Declan Shalvey promises a stripped-down, pulpy approach that leans into the franchise's original tone and unstoppable force.
• Skynet is expanding its attacks by targeting resistance fighters and their ancestors across different time periods in history.

Skynet 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 original Terminator film. In Dynamite’s announcement of the new series, Shalvey said that the first Terminator movie 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.”

Skynet Launches Its Most Exhaustive Attack Ever

Terminators Are Going Back Through All Of Human History

In the first Terminator movie, Skynet sends a T-800 model Terminator back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor. After that proves unsuccessful, Terminator 2: Judgment Day sees 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!”

Dynamite Celebrates Terminator's 40th Anniversary With New Series

Shalvey is the writer behind Dynamite’s recent ThunderCats relaunch, and has also worked as a writer and artist on titles like Alien, Old Dog and Time Before Time. Sparrow is a rising star who has worked on Star Trek and Old 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 of The Terminator’s 40th anniversary, Dynamite also recently completed a six-figure BackerKit campaign to reprint classic Terminator comics from the late 1980s. Now, this latest Dynamite series shows that, just like its titular cyborg assassins, The Terminator franchise is truly unstoppable.

The Terminator #1 will be available this October from Dynamite Entertainment.