Cat People

ThunderCats return to comics, and their origins, in Dynamite Entertainment's new series 

- STEPHEN JEWELL

A BIG CHILDHOOD FAN OF ThunderCats, Declan Shalvey is now writing a new monthly series starring the fearsome felines for Dynamite Entertainment’s new line of comics based on Warner Bros Discovery’s animated properties.

“I found the original cartoons in the same way that every kid did back then,” Shalvey tells Red Alert. “As that classic opening came on the TV, I was transfixed. It was like pure adrenaline on the screen! I was just the right age when ThunderCats debuted, or at least by the time it debuted in Ireland, as back then it took a while for American shows to make it over the Atlantic.”

With the damaged Royal Flagship landing on Third Earth after the ThunderCats flee their devastated home world of Thundera, the series is set some time before the events of the animated show, which ran for four seasons from 1985 to 1988.