The Terminator Just Made Me Scared of the T-800 After Years of Letdown

The T-800 endoskeleton from the end of The Terminator

I was already excited for Dynamite Entertainment's new ongoing Terminator comic series, but the debut issue affirmed for me that the series has the potential to make the T-800 as scary as it has been in forty years, on the level of thrilling terror that the original 1984 James Cameron film still manages to evoke, even though I've seen the movie countless times.

Dynamite's New "Terminator" Comic Emphasizes What Truly Makes The T-800 An Iconic Horror Villain The Terminator #1 – Written By Declan Shalvey; Art By Luke Sparrow; Color By Collin Craker; Lettering By Jeff Eckleberry &#x2715 Remove Ads As a debut issue, The Terminator #1 is, naturally, intended to set up the series ahead.

Author Declan Shalvey Displays A Fundamental Grasp On Why "Terminator" Is Such A Timeless Franchise The Terminator #1 – Variant Covers By Jason Flowers, John Giang, Joshua Swaby, & More; Available Now From Dynamite Entertainment &#x2715 Remove Ads Of course, one of the things that made The Terminator so great, upon its original release, was the way that it adapted the tropes of the burgeoning slasher movie genre to a sci-fi premise.

&#x2715 Remove Ads Declan Shalvey's Terminator #1 offers its own version of that moment effectively, though with a narrative purpose slightly adjusted to suit the needs of this new series. Sarah Connor's story ultimately became a classic tale of"fate vs. free will," while Shalvey's Terminator ongoing comic appears to take the position that whichever side of that coin flip you land on, time is the real enemy. Killer robots simply expedite an inevitable process.

&#x2715 Remove Ads Both him and Penny lose their lives at the Terminator's hands, and the cabin itself is destroyed in a spectacular explosion. The story ends with an image I think is spectacular, of the Terminator, in flames, sinking back below the surface of the lake, its mission complete. To me, this sends a clear thematic signal for the series; it is not that Terminators aren't susceptible to the damage done by time, but that impact is drawn out over a much longer scale.

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