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The Bionic Man #11-16
The Bionic Man Volume 2: Bigfoot
Steve Austin, the unstoppable hero of The Six Million Dollar Man, tracks a deadly conspiracy to foreign territory, where he discovers his strangest adversary yet -- the legendary Bigfoot! What is this unnatural creature of primal inst
144 pages, Paperback
First published September 10, 2013
About the author
Phil Hester
918 books64 followersThis Eisner Award-nominated artist was born in eastern Iowa, where he went on to study at the University of Iowa. His pencilling credits include Swamp Thing, Brave New World, Flinch, Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Clerks: The Lost Scene, The Crow: Waking Nightmares, The Wretch (nominated for the 1997 Eisner Award for Best New Series), Aliens: Purge, and Green Arrow.
Since graduating from the University of Iowa, he has been in the comics industry for over 15 years.
Since graduating from the University of Iowa, he has been in the comics industry for over 15 years.
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April 19, 2020
Phil Hester brings back the one character everyone remembers Steve Austin fighting, Bigfoot.
And yes, Bigfoot was played by Andre the Giant. Hester has updated the plot in that Bigfoot is no longer an alien, just an augmented Russian bigfoot. The writing isn't as sharp or clever as Kevin Smith's but he's a tough act to follow. I did like that Bigfoot rips Steve Austin's arm off. It's a little payback from his appearance on the TV show. Ed Tadeo's art is serviceable.
And yes, Bigfoot was played by Andre the Giant. Hester has updated the plot in that Bigfoot is no longer an alien, just an augmented Russian bigfoot. The writing isn't as sharp or clever as Kevin Smith's but he's a tough act to follow. I did like that Bigfoot rips Steve Austin's arm off. It's a little payback from his appearance on the TV show. Ed Tadeo's art is serviceable.
February 16, 2014
In some ways, I enjoyed this more than Volume one.
The "Bigfoot" episodes of "The Six Million Dollar Man" are classics-IMO. I LOVED watching them and even had nightmares!
This volume again updates the story and makes some changes. It really is different from the plot of the TV show.
Jamie Sommers takes a bigger role here, after the Bigfoot story is done. Again, parts of the plot we know are there, but somethings are changed..
I thought the writing was a bit better in volume two...
If you are a fan, you should try this series!
The "Bigfoot" episodes of "The Six Million Dollar Man" are classics-IMO. I LOVED watching them and even had nightmares!
This volume again updates the story and makes some changes. It really is different from the plot of the TV show.
Jamie Sommers takes a bigger role here, after the Bigfoot story is done. Again, parts of the plot we know are there, but somethings are changed..
I thought the writing was a bit better in volume two...
If you are a fan, you should try this series!
February 19, 2014
I give it a 3.8 out of 5.
November 23, 2017
If the first volume was fun, this one was ridiculous on many fronts. Gone are the funny one-liners and in comes the hair-pulling. Feel free to not read this book.
After an emotional reunion with his parents, Austin is back on the job. He meets Bigfoot in this one! Bigfoot with bionics, no less. Austin gets his ass handed to him and loses an arm, literally. Bigfoot tracks Austin's location inside the O.S.I. facility. The bionic dog gets killed this time and Bigfoot runs away with it. Bigfoot is faster, but thank God the dog is bleeding and Austin can follow the trail. Everybody forgets about the dog for while.
Bigfoot wanted to fix his mate, also bionic, so Austin offers the use of the facility that maintains his hardware. Because they're buds now that they can communicate. After a short and useless interlude where Austin needs to free the Bigfeet, he decides to destroy the Russian (no originality here) facility that implanted bionics in Bigfoot's people. Unfortunately, all his people are controled by the toothless, mad nazi scientist who created them. Of course he's a nazi. There are no worse people out there but Russians and nazis, right? The battle of the Bigfeet is too stupid to mention.
After a few more awful lines of dialogue and fast-forwarded story moments, the Bigfeet are released into the wild with patches to their software to become untraceable.
Jaime, Austin's fiancee gets badly injured from a fall during a parachute jump. Because that's what you do after being suspended from the Washington Monument - you go skydiving to walk the trauma off! Duh! She gets the bionic treatment because we need another bionic character. Unfortunately, she has forgotten everything about her life up to the fall. It turns out that her parachute... jumping... trainer or whatever they'e called rigged her parachute to fail. He was replaced by a robot called a maskatron (it's ridiculous even according to the characters) with superhuman strength that, for some reason, surprise Austin even after being thrown 100 feet away. I guess Austin never heard of bionic implants. Then he feels bad for Jaime and runs away like a baby. Run, Forrest, run! The woman behind this epic fail of a story is the previous director of O.S.I., but I can't care less that she wants Austin dead.
After an emotional reunion with his parents, Austin is back on the job. He meets Bigfoot in this one! Bigfoot with bionics, no less. Austin gets his ass handed to him and loses an arm, literally. Bigfoot tracks Austin's location inside the O.S.I. facility. The bionic dog gets killed this time and Bigfoot runs away with it. Bigfoot is faster, but thank God the dog is bleeding and Austin can follow the trail. Everybody forgets about the dog for while.
Bigfoot wanted to fix his mate, also bionic, so Austin offers the use of the facility that maintains his hardware. Because they're buds now that they can communicate. After a short and useless interlude where Austin needs to free the Bigfeet, he decides to destroy the Russian (no originality here) facility that implanted bionics in Bigfoot's people. Unfortunately, all his people are controled by the toothless, mad nazi scientist who created them. Of course he's a nazi. There are no worse people out there but Russians and nazis, right? The battle of the Bigfeet is too stupid to mention.
After a few more awful lines of dialogue and fast-forwarded story moments, the Bigfeet are released into the wild with patches to their software to become untraceable.
Jaime, Austin's fiancee gets badly injured from a fall during a parachute jump. Because that's what you do after being suspended from the Washington Monument - you go skydiving to walk the trauma off! Duh! She gets the bionic treatment because we need another bionic character. Unfortunately, she has forgotten everything about her life up to the fall. It turns out that her parachute... jumping... trainer or whatever they'e called rigged her parachute to fail. He was replaced by a robot called a maskatron (it's ridiculous even according to the characters) with superhuman strength that, for some reason, surprise Austin even after being thrown 100 feet away. I guess Austin never heard of bionic implants. Then he feels bad for Jaime and runs away like a baby. Run, Forrest, run! The woman behind this epic fail of a story is the previous director of O.S.I., but I can't care less that she wants Austin dead.
February 7, 2019
The end of Kevin Smith's story and leads into a story bringing back the bionic Bigfoot. Not sure how I feel about this. I guess I liked it, but I didn't love it.
October 14, 2024
Kevin Smith getting high and wandering off from the series was the best thing that could happen to it, and even that doesn't improve it much.
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