New ‘Terminator’ Series Snags Declan Shalvey, Luke Sparrow For Creative Team

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Declan Shalvey isn’t saying “hasta la vista” to ThunderCats any time soon, but the prolific writer is taking on a new franchise: The Terminator, which is launching as a brand new series from Dynamite, along with art by Luke Sparrow.

“The approach of this series is new situations, new dilemmas in each issue. Mostly done-in-one stories, but as the series progresses there may be some recognizable faces…,” said Shalvey via press release provided to Comic Book Club. “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.”

Just in time for the 40th anniversary of the original film, The Terminator comic series will head back to the present as killer robots are sent throughout the globe to kill not just resistance fighters — but their ancestors, as well. Plugs the press release, “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!”

The new series will include covers from Shalvey, as well as Edwin Galmon, Joshua “Sway” Swaby, and David Cousens. It also features an “Icon Cover” featuring Alex Ross’s artwork from the “Burning Earth” storyline from 1990.

Terminator #1 will hit stores in October on a TBA date, and will take center stage on the cover of August’s Previews. You can check out the covers, and a few unlettered black-and-white pages, below.

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