Kevin Smith's the Bionic Man Volume 1 by Kevin Smith

I also feel sorry for those that like to resolve conflict by deep frying things…

The issue opens with a break-in at a bionics lab, where everyone is slashed and hacked to pieces by a guy with a samurai sword, but the big surprise is that the assassin is a cyborg! If you don’t smell the extra crispy deep frying which signals conflict a’comin’ between the title character and this low-tech wannabe, then I feel sorry for the youth of America. Here we learn of the prototype aircraft Colonel Austin is scheduled to fly, we meet Oscar Goldman, a civilian representing some branch of the military, a secret bionics laboratory, and we get to see our hero, Steve Austin in action. The big surprise for anyone who picks up this issue is that there are a lot of things that happen before Steve Austin is turned into a cyborg. Then things went silent, until one day, when a guy who got kicked of an airline was approached to bring his movie idea back to the four color press. There was even a comic book series from Charlton Comics where Neal Adams and Howard Chaykin appeared as frequent contributors. Toys and books sold well, and there were even record albums retelling key stories.

As time went on, a spin-off series appeared, as did reunion movies years later. That movie turned out so well, that two more followed, which lead to a four year television series on ABC. Previously in The Bionic Man: Once upon a time a guy wrote a book, that was used as the basis for a made for television movie. But what happened before the Northrop M2-F2 crashed and burned? Kevin Smith and Dynamite Entertainment bring their take to the popular television series the way only Kevin Smith and Dynamite Entertainment can.Ĭover Artists: Alex Ross, Paul Renaud, Stephen Segovia, Jonathan Lau The opening words to the Six Million Dollar Man is engrained in the mind of kids born before 1971. We have the capability to build the world’s first bionic man.

Kevin Smith's the Bionic Man Volume 1 by Kevin Smith