SilverHawks #8
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeSilverHawks #8 (September 2025) arrives at the penultimate stretch of Ed Brisson and George Kambadais's ten-issue run — the first-ever ongoing comic series dedicated to the 1986 Rankin/Bass space-cop franchise in the modern era. The issue sits inside the larger Dynamite 'ThunderVerse' publishing initiative, which formally connected the SilverHawks and ThunderCats franchises under one comics umbrella for the first time, a structural move with lasting implications for how Dynamite manages its Warner Bros. Discovery licensed properties. As one of only ten issues in the complete Brisson/Kambadais run before the series fed into the announced ThunderCats × SilverHawks crossover event, each late-run issue carries narrative weight in closing out the foundational chapter of this revival.
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The Dynamite SilverHawks series was announced at New York Comic Con 2024 as a direct outgrowth of the publisher's licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products, itself secured in 2023. Writer Ed Brisson — who had already worked within the nascent ThunderVerse via the ThunderCats: Apex one-shot — lobbied editor Nate Cosby for the assignment from the moment ThunderCats launched, and was paired with artist George Kambadais, who had built his modern profile on Dynamite's Gargoyles revival. Brisson and Kambadais designed the series as a police-procedural reframing of the cartoon, in the vein of Law & Order, rather than a straight adaptation. The ten-issue run concluded and was followed by a fifteen-issue ThunderCats × SilverHawks crossover event.
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- SilverHawks #8 was released on September 24, 2025, by Dynamite Entertainment, written by Ed Brisson with art by George Kambadais.
- The issue is the eighth of a ten-issue complete run — the first modern ongoing comic series based on the 1986 Rankin/Bass SilverHawks animated property.
- The series is part of Dynamite's 'ThunderVerse,' an umbrella publishing line that formally connects the SilverHawks and ThunderCats comic franchises under a shared continuity for the first time in comics.
- The animated SilverHawks property originated in 1986 as Rankin/Bass's space-based spiritual successor to ThunderCats; rights are now held by Warner Bros. Television Distribution following Warner Bros.' 1989 acquisition of Lorimar-Telepictures.
- The Dynamite series was announced to present the SilverHawks' adventures as a 'police procedural' in the style of Law & Order, giving the property a more grounded, serialized tone than its cartoon source material.
- The series's creative team chose to include Hotwing — a character who appeared only late in the original cartoon's run — as a core roster member from issue #1, a notable departure from the original lineup.
- Issue #8 shipped with multiple cover variants, including covers by Jae Lee & June Chung, Cat Staggs, Alessandro Ranaldi, Drew Moss, George Kambadais, Manix Abrera, and incentive variants by David Cousens and Jae Lee (black & white virgin).
- Following the conclusion of the ten-issue main series, a fifteen-issue ThunderCats × SilverHawks crossover event was announced, with the Brisson/Kambadais run serving as its foundational setup.
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