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 From Dark Horse:

In 1990, at the start of the boom of licensed comics, Dark Horse began publishing Terminator. Now, on the eve of the 25^th anniversary of the first Terminator film, Dark Horse is excited to announce the return of all new Terminator material for a whole new generation of fans! 

With renewed interest in the property in both television and film, Dark Horse announced today its intent to begin creating new comics for release in conjunction with the film’s silver anniversary in 2009.

Rand Marlis, President of Creative Licensing Corporation who represents all Terminator tie-ins, said  ”I’m thrilled to be once again working with Dark Horse. They are a superb comic book company and really know the Terminator world. Our prior Dark Horse comics are classics and we look forward to more quality stories and art from the Dark Horse team.”

Dark Horse president and publisher, Mike Richardson stated “We’ve had great success with the ongoing saga of Sarah and John Connor in the past, and the worldwide interest in Terminator has us eager to begin a brand new series picking up where we left off.”

The publisher went on to say that the storyline is being developed and the creative team will be announced shortly.

Dark Horse’s successful Termintor Omnibus Vol. 1 & 2 are currently available at a retail price of $24.95.

From Friday’s The Oklahoman: 

The nine-episode strike-shortened first season of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” kicks in a year after the events of “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.” Sarah Connor (Lena Headley, “300”) and her son John (Thomas Dekker, “Heroes”) have been hiding out, but decide it’s time to move on. They are aided by a new Terminator, played by Summer Glau.

Glau first came to prominence in the television show “Firefly,” created by Joss Whedon, playing the unbalanced psychic River, who stowed away on the spaceship Serenity. She’s excellent in her role, except in the pilot, which has a few issues. The new Terminators are supposed to better be able to mimic human emotions — Cameron (Glau) does that at first, when John doesn’t realize she is a Terminator. After she’s revealed, however, she has a much more “robotic” performance.

Still, as the series goes on, Glau’s the highlight of the show, and should be a breakout star. Headley doesn’t have the toned, steely presence of Linda Hamilton, but she does have her moments. Brian Austin Green (“Beverly Hills, 90210”) shows up about halfway through the season as John Connor’s uncle, and immediately sparks up the series.

If the series fits in with “Terminator 3,” I’m not sure how, exactly. Still, time travel allows for some leeway in events, doesn’t it?

Extras include commentaries, cast auditions, storyboard animatics, featurettes, and a director’s cut of the episode “The Demon Hand.”

– Matthew Price

“Dark Knight” star Christian Bale is at the heart of the “Terminator: Salvation” teaser trailer now available on Yahoo Movies.  Not a lot revealed, but looks fairly promising to me from the teaser.

– Matt Price

My biggest worries going into last night’s premiere episode of “Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles,” were:

1. I hope the effects aren’t super cheesy.

2. I hope the story isn’t super sucky.

The special effects were OK — not movie-grade goodness, but not so bad that they took away from the story. And what a story it was. Time-travelling, random Terminator attacks and John Conner thinking about boning a robot are all good things.

There are some lingering questions. I thought it was pretty convenient how easily Sarah Conner accepted the new Terminator into the fold. (Should we call her the T-River Tam or what?) And I thought the Tam-bot changed her prime directive from “protect John Conner” to “do whatever Sarah Conner says” awfully fast.

And what was with Sarah Conner having to be pushed by her son to stop SkyNet?

“We have to save humanity, mom.”

“Well….I don’t know….I’m awfully busy, lately.”

Regardless, this episode gets an “A” from me, though I’ll be interested to see what the new status quo is with tonight’s episode. I’d assume it’s all Terminator and FBI chasing them all the time, but I wonder if they’ll drift at all to a Monster-of-the-Week format, just to change it up?

 – Greg 

While I’ve been eagerly awaiting “Cloverfield,” especially following the brilliant shadow campaign at www.1-18-08.com, some other numbers have been thrown around on TV, trying to get us interested in a different countdown.

“The Sarah Conner Chronicles” (7 p.m. Sunday on Fox) hopes to restore glory to the faded Terminator franchise on the small screen.

So far, the concerns from my friends center on production values. Will the Terminator robots look cheesy? Will the special effects live up to the the movies? Will actress Summer Glau wear skimpy clothing for the Greg-happy-making?

OK, that last question is mine, but don’t you judge me!

Regardless, I’ll be interested to see if “Chronicles” can do for Terminator what “Smallville” did for the Superman movies - update a big-time series of movies that got progressively worse over time.

(Seriously, go back and watch “Superman IV: The Quest for Peace” and try to stay interested. Lex Luthor’s nephew is Duckie? No way.)

Is anybody excited about this? I mean, at least it’s something new on TV that isn’t a reality show, right?

– Greg

Our TV Week editor was nice enough to show these to me, and I thought they were too cool not to share on the blog.  “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” begins Jan 13 on FOX.  Photos copyright FOX.