April 21st 2007
GlobalArnold.com News Report:

T2: Infinity!

As we told you last month, Dynamite Comics will be bringing us some cool new Terminator 2 Expanded Universe comics. We've now got some cool images and info on the new series, set to be named, TERMINATOR 2: INFINITY, featuring an all new cyborg...

From Dynamite:

He said he'll be back and DYNAMITE'S got him - only it's not just the T-800 that will be featured in the all new Terminator comic book series, but the T-1000 and the all new T-Infinity

Legendary Transformers writer Simon Furman is at the helm along with new Battlestar Galactica artist Nigel Raynor as they unleash the "Trial by Fire"! In this opening DYNAMITE TERMINATOR 2 event, Skynet sets out to destroy the Terminators in the past to preserve their (mostly) human free future! Starring all the familiar characters from the smash film in the dark, post - apocalyptic future as seen in the films!

T2: Infinity is set after the events of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Furman explained. "So, no Sarah Connor. She's dead. No visual likenesses of Arnie either (though we have an Arnie-style Terminator in a key role). John Connor is the main focus here, he drives the entire 5-issue series." Indeed, Furman sees all the Terminator films as John Connor's story – with Terminators. "Even the first film, before he's born, it's all about him. With 'Terminator Infinity', though, I had an overall high concept idea, I looked at very much as the next stage in John's story.

John Connor
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"The main theme is the onus and burden of responsibility, especially on young shoulders. Knowing your destiny and achieving it are two very different things, especially when confronted time and again with the truism 'the future's not set'. It's about screening out others' expectations and, ultimately, doing what's best/right for you".

T-800... but not like Arnold!
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The series introduces a brand new Terminator model, the T-Infinity, "unlike anything we've seen before," and will feature some exciting twists on the Terminator storyline. "We finally get to see the price of all this temporal tinkering Skynet (and, to a lesser extent, the resistance) have been doing in movies 1-3. That crisis, in the further future of 2030 or so, drives the action in 2009 or so, as John emerges from Crystal Peak. For once, John's not the primary target of the (bad) Terminator involved". Furman also added, "Oh, and there's a cameo appearance from a certain Kyle Reese. Honest."

The T-INFINITY!
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Furman is approaching “Terminator 2: Infinity” as if it's the next movie in the series. “Of course, some future sequel (though I don't believe anything's planned, beyond the Sarah Connor TV series but that doesn't impact) might erase Infinity out of existence, but as it stands, this is in-continuity and utterly canon.”

For further readings of T2: Infinity, visit ComicBookResources.com.

Global Arnold Staff

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