The Six Million Dollar Man #1

This was my favorite comic book that I read this week. Fans of the original show should definitely give this a try. Or, you know, people who like happiness in general. Read Full Review

Even putting nostalgia aside, I can recommend the Six Million Dollar Man as a solid, entertaining read that makes for a great introduction to a forty-plus year old character and concept. Dynamite Entertainment assembled a top notch team to bring this property into the hands of readers old and young alike and I for one am eager to get my hands on the next issue. Please let this be a monthly and not a miniseries. Read Full Review

Overall. A strong start, which takes Steve Austin in a slightly different direction than we have seen in previous comics and indeed the TV series itself. Read Full Review

Six Million Dollar Man #1 is a debut that is definitely worth its weight in cybernetic parts. Read Full Review

Solid and entertaining writing combined with great art make for a fun read that is refreshing and enjoyable. Read Full Review

Dynamite rebuilds the Six Million Dollar Man for a new series that will delight new and old readers alike. Read Full Review

For someone who doesn't really care or know anything about The Six Million Dollar Man, I had a fun time reading The Six Million Dollar Man #1. I think in the end the combination of how Steve Austin was written as a bit of a goof and the "Archie" styling of the art won me over as an overall theme. If you are a fan of The Six Million Dollar Man I figure you will enjoy this. If you have never seen or heard anything about the show then this is a great jumping-on point. Read Full Review

This Six Million Dollar Man series gives the original action formula a bionic noogie. It's taking chances, always applause-worthy. Still, the comics-buying public may be split. Old-timers used to a taciturn Col. Austin may feel alienated by the Our Man Flint stretch. (If Derek Flint was played by a de-aged Steve Carrell instead of James Coburn.) Read Full Review

Dynamite's "The Six Million Dollar Man" #1 is an update to the bionic man mythos in name only, and if not for the disconnect it would make for a relatively fun comic book romp. Readers new to the property might dig it, but fans looking for a sophisticated update of the '70s series beware. Read Full Review

Dynamite has been having a bit of a resonance lately with a number of their licensed books being the best they ever have been. Showing that the right creative team can make anything work. The Six Million Dollar Man #1 has its moments but does not do enough to stand out from an ever-growing field. Read Full Review

Brion Salazar

Mar 06, 2019

I loved the Six Million Dollar Man tv show as a kid. The action figure is still one of my all-time favorite toys. Bigfoot has never been cooler. I’m a Steve Austin fanboy. At the same time I can see how cheesey and ridiculous this show was in retrospect and fully expect a comic book based on the show to take a different direction. If you are going to do that however, I suggest doing it better than this. Art is about choices. I feel the choices made for this comic book were the least interesting that could have been made. What we get in this first issue is a young Steve Austin, bright-eyed and a bit naive, entering into his fist mission as a super-secret cyborg spy for the U.S. Government. It’s something new and certainly has potenti al. What we don’t get however is anything particularly fun,cool or interesting. Lee Majors was cool and charming in a cock-sure way. His chiseled good looks, Kentucky drawl, and physicality offered a sense of a guy that might get in a barroom brawl on Friday and still be good to fly a rocket ship on Monday morning. This Steve Austin is goofy, talks too much, and is rather incompetent for a super spy. If you want to go that direction, push it all the way. Make him a complete jackass so full of himself he endangers the mission. Something akin to Archer on FX would be more interesting than this middle-of-the-road character who is neither heroic, nor the heel. Another failure is that we see almost nothing resembling technology or hinting at how amazing six-million dollars worth of biotech might actually be in 1974 . We don’t experience any sound effects, visual representation, or barely a showing of the fantastic abilities Steve keeps talking about. If the creators were going for subtle, or building up to a reveal, they failed. I feel as if they didn’t make any choices, one way or another, about how to depict the cyborg parts of their cyborg comic. Lastly the art is probably the biggest missed opportunity in my opinion. While fine enough for the job, I feel that if you are going to set a comic book in the 70’s about a show from the 70’s, how do you not have an art style that conveys the 70’s in any way? This book begs to be drawn in a retro style but what we get is a more basic touch. Overall this is a light spy-action story with a sense of fun but lacking any real sense of danger that ultimately left me wishing the creators would have risked more. more