The Herculoids #8
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThe Herculoids #8 is the narrative turning point of Dynamite's first-ever dedicated Herculoids ongoing series — the franchise's most ambitious comics treatment since DC's Future Quest in 2016. For nearly six decades, the original Hanna-Barbera animated series deliberately left unanswered the true origins of planet Amzot and the reason its human inhabitants, Zandor and his family, rejected all technology; this issue finally confronts that mystery head-on, revealing Amzot as the ancestral home of the universe-conquering Klaturian race and positioning young Dorno as the vessel for their ancient collective intelligence. By folding a classic 1960s Saturday-morning property into a serialized, mythology-building science-fiction narrative, the issue demonstrates how Dynamite's Hanna-Barbera revival — building directly on its critically noted Space Ghost series — can take characters whose original television format never allowed for world-building and grant them genuine cosmological depth.
In "The Rise and Fall of the Klaturian Empire!", Dorno—now the Overmind, the living will of the long-dead Klaturian empire—unfolds the tragic tale of his people’s rise to galactic dominance and their devastating fall at the hands of the Shaitan, a mysterious and terrifying force. Written by Tom Sniegoski and brought to life by Craig Rousseau’s dynamic art and Omi Remalante Jr.’s vivid colors, this issue reveals how the ancient Klaturians’ ambition led to their undoing—and how a signal from the Encephalon has set their long-lost legacy in motion. The unexpected response to that call sets the stage for a reckoning no one saw coming. Cover by Francesco Mattina.
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The Herculoids was created and designed by Alex Toth for Hanna-Barbera and debuted on CBS on September 9, 1967, with plotlines rooted in science fiction and fantasy that deliberately offered no explanation for the origins of Amzot or its inhabitants' anti-technology ethos — a creative gap that went unaddressed for nearly sixty years across every subsequent revival and comic adaptation. Dynamite announced the new ongoing series on October 15, 2024, slotting it as a successor to their Space Ghost title and tapping writer Tom Sniegoski and artist Craig Rousseau — a previously established creative partnership — to helm the book, with Sniegoski describing the assignment as one of the highlights of his career. The series launched in March 2025 (having slipped from an initially announced February 2025 debut), running ten issues through 2026, with issue #8 arriving in September 2025 as the arc's pivotal mythology chapter.
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- Written by Tom Sniegoski with art by Craig Rousseau — the same creative team on every issue of the 10-issue Dynamite series (2025–2026).
- Published September 2025; the series is confirmed to run exactly ten issues, making #8 the second-to-last chapter of the penultimate story arc.
- Central story development: Dorno takes on the identity of 'The Overmind,' acting as the voice and embodiment of the Klaturians — revealed here as the ancient, universe-conquering original inhabitants of Amzot.
- First sustained in-comics exploration of Amzot's planetary origins, a mystery the original 1967–68 Hanna-Barbera television series — and all subsequent revivals — left entirely unexplained.
- The Klaturian name appears, per Grand Comics Database annotation, to be a tribute reference to Klaatu, the alien ambassador in the 1951 classic sci-fi film The Day the Earth Stood Still.
- Issue ships with four cover variants: Cover A by Francesco Mattina, Cover B by Joseph Michael Linsner, Cover C by Bjorn Barends, and Cover D by Anthony Marques — all on cardstock.
- The Dynamite series represents the Herculoids' first standalone ongoing comic series; prior comic appearances were limited to anthology titles (Gold Key's Hanna-Barbera Super TV Heroes, 1968–69), single issues (Marvel's TV Stars #3, 1978; DC's Cartoon Network Presents, 1997–99), and ensemble crossovers (DC's Future Quest, 2016).
- The series was positioned by Dynamite as a direct follow-up to their Space Ghost comic, continuing the publisher's ongoing revival of classic Hanna-Barbera science-fiction/adventure properties.
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