Zack Whedon recently spilled some more information about his recently-announced Terminator comic in an interview with Newsarama. The comic, for the most part, will cover Kyle Reese in the future and his traveling to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor. Whedon told Newsarama:

What you'll be seeing initially is Kyle and his friends in the future, before he makes the jump. ... A significant portion of it takes place in the future. There will be stuff set in 1984 and you will see Sarah Connor, and there will be a whole new threat to her life, but at the outset, it takes place in the future.

In the first movie, there are flashbacks to his time in the future, fighting and everything, and this comic expands on that part of his life a little bit. ... We'll show what he was going through leading up to volunteering to make this jump.

As for the Terminators themselves? We're going to see plenty of them, according to Whedon. The writer explained:

The comic's called Terminator, so yes, there will be Terminators. You won't see a Terminator that specifically looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger, but the T-800 Terminator will play a role. ... There will be a significant Terminator presence in the future world. This is before the human resistance has gotten the upper hand in any way, so they're really at the mercy of these machines.

One particularly reassuring comment he made was that he is turning to the original Terminator film for storytelling cues. Whedon told Newsarama, "I've watched that first movie several times over the past six months trying to figure this thing out."

Sounds like there's a good chance this comic will be a success, especially if Whedon really understands what makes the franchise tick.

Whedon's first comic, a tie in to his brother Joss's Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog web series (which Zack also wrote for) is hitting comic book stores today.