The Bionic Woman Volume 1

The Bionic Man #w1-10

by Paul Tobin, Leno Carvalho (Illustrations), Juan Antonio Ramírez (Illustrations)

After Jaime Sommers suffers a horrific parachute accident, scientists rebuild her using similar cybernetic parts to those that turned her boyfriend Steve Austin into the Bionic Man. The doctors replace her legs, her right arm, her ear, and more! Now, Jaime has been rebuilt to be faster and stronger... but tragically, much of her memories are missing. Worse yet, the recipients of earlier bionic enhancements are systematically being slain around the globe for their parts... and the black market profiteers responsible now seek the latest upgrade: the Bionic Woman herself!

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Science Fiction

216 pages, Paperback

First published February 5, 2013

About the author

Paul Tobin is the Eisner-award winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Bandette, Colder, and many other comic books and graphic series.

Bandette, drawn by Colleen Coover, was awarded the Eisner Award for Best Digital Series in 2013, 2016, and 2017; and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award for Graphic Literature in 2016. His original graphic novel I Was the Cat was nominated for an Eisner in 2015.

The Genius Factor: How to Capture an Invisible Cat , first in his five-book series of middle-grade books, came out in 2016 from Bloomsbury Kids. It was followed in 2017 by How To Outsmart A billion Robot Bees , and How To Tame A Human Tornado in March 2018.

Reviews

[Chad · Rating 2 out of 5]

Part of Dynamite's first attempt at a Bionic Woman reboot. In addition to her bionic powers, Jamie now has all the powers of the internet along with the ability to change her appearance. She's been remade too powerful for this to be very interesting. First, she takes on an organization that is trying to steal her bionics. The latter story is a campy version of the Fembots where they see her as their mother. The art in most of this is just plain bad.

[Little Timmy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice spin off from the Main series. The story departs greatly from the original TV show, it verges way more into a superhero style setting. Recommended

[Quentin Wallace · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an update of the Bionic Woman character. There are two storylines in this volume. The first involves cyborgs being murdered for their bionic parts. The second is a somewhat campy story featuring "fembots". I enjoyed the first arc much better but overall this isn't bad. Decent story with decent art. Worth a read, but nothing overly special.

[Paxton Holley · Rating 1 out of 5]

Spinoff of Dynamite comics' The Bionic Man. Sort of happens concurrently with The Bionic Man series. I love the idea of this, but the execution is not good. And the art is terrible for about half the collection. Of course they bring in Steve in the later half of the story and it's like the writer didn't read the previous series. He gets several things wrong like which of Steve's arms are bionic!

[Robert · Rating 1 out of 5]

So much girlboss Mary-Sue-ing. Don't bother.

[Steve Howells · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun read.