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Li'l Jay's favourite new comic book series is coming:

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Everyone knows that we had the technology to rebuild astronaut Steve Austin, but what happens when that technology starts breaking down? That’s the question at the heart of a new comic book relaunch of The Six Million Dollar Man, launching next year from Dynamite Entertainment.

Written by Christopher Hastings with art by David Hahn, the new series sees Steve Austin sent on a mission to Japan, where he has to team up with secret agent Niko Abe on a mission that might be his last, when his cybernetic enhancements start malfunctioning just as the KGB and a bunch of samurai show up.

Amusingly, the announcement for the series notes that $6 million, adjusted for inflation, could be $23 million today; it also suggests that, when his tech starts breaking down, “any minute now he may be the Six Thousand Dollar Man.” Clearly, this isn’t going to be a revival unaware of the potential comedy inside the concept.

“I know comics is the business of fun, but man, I had a lot of fun writing this book,” writer Hastings (Marvel’s Unbelievable Gwenpool) said in a statement about the series. “I do little dances in my chair when David Hahn's artwork comes in (which is then accompanied by the terrible sense of responsibility of writing words that are good enough to be seen next to it).”

Hahn added, “I was not only excited to be working on the Six Million Dollar Man but was doubly thrilled that our story takes place in Steve Austin's original TV era of the mid-'70s. That was a time when aesthetics regarding technology were simultaneously clunky and sleek, just like our version of Steve Austin.”

The series will debut in March.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat- ... nt-1170448

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Will probably check it out. They did a series a couple of years ago with the writing of Kevin Smith, but I bailed on it. Dynamite's art is usually A double S.

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One of the best TV show intros of all time...



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Picked up the original movie recently for cheap. My son watched 5 minutes of it. :lol: I think it holds up strictly as nostalgia. I struggled mightily through a few episodes on TV a while back, but abandoned it. Still one of my favorite things as a kid though, along with Land of the Lost (which also does not hold up at all).


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The Dynamite series (or series of miniseries? I forget) was good.


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That's a nice art sample. It could be fun! Imagine that--comics that try to be fun....

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The DVD commentary on that scene is a must. Apparently the spinning tunnel disoriented the actors so badly that they could hardly take a step without falling over. When Steve is running through the tunnel, they photograph him in a close-up, moving his shoulders to make it look like he's running.

Note the tarps all over the floor. Dimensional gateways definitely had more of a clunky look in the 1970s.

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I would be remiss if I didn't link to this:


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Jeff wrote:
Picked up the original movie recently for cheap. My son watched 5 minutes of it. :lol: I think it holds up strictly as nostalgia. I struggled mightily through a few episodes on TV a while back, but abandoned it. Still one of my favorite things as a kid though, along with Land of the Lost (which also does not hold up at all).


It definitely hits its stride later in the series. The earliest movies and first half of the first season, they weren't sure what they had -- a James Bond character? There wasn't really a precedent for a super-powered, but realistic show.

It starts to get better when the recurring storylines get into it.

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I honestly only recall the general awesomeness of it. I know I'd watch it again and enjoy it.

I tend not to judge stuff like this on the basis of anything other than how much I loved it as a kid. Certain things, like this show, just bypass any and all adult judgement for me. Like old monster and science fiction comics, shows like this (or the POTA TV series, or Time Tunnel or Land of the Giants, or 70's Dr. Who) just make me happy.

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That meddlin kid wrote:
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That thread is a masterpiece.

I honestly only recall the general awesomeness of it. I know I'd watch it again and enjoy it.

I tend not to judge stuff like this on the basis of anything other than how much I loved it as a kid. Certain things, like this show, just bypass any and all adult judgement for me. Like old monster and science fiction comics, shows like this (or the POTA TV series, or Time Tunnel or Land of the Giants, or 70's Dr. Who) just make me happy.

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The important thing is not to dismiss the merit of an idea on the basis that it's pure nostalgia. Almost every kind of creative work is trapped in its time, but the idea can transcend and endure. And the work can even be appreciated on that basis.

I'm enjoying the George Reeves Superman show on DVD -- but in honestly I have to accept that the production does not hold up to today's standards. But it captures so much of something good, that I can see it. Six Million Dollar Man is like that -- there are elements that just don't fit a viewing today. But the heroic ideals, the way he is trying to do good in the world with his abilities, is an awesome concept. And Lee Majors certainly holds up -- both his presence and the delivery of his lines. So does Oscar Goldman.

I could watch it every night and still be happy, wide lapels and pants legs notwithstanding. When that music cranks up as he starts to run, it still has an effect that today's television shows have a hard time matching.

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Some things hold up for me despite their dated forms. For instance, I love the old Ray Harryhausen stop motion movies despite their relative cheesiness. My youngest son does too. It's not the special effects or fashions (although period pieces like Sinbad largely make the latter irrelevant). I can't actually define what makes a show hold up for me or not, thinking about it. I mean, Star Trek fits every mold of its time period and should not hold up, but surely does for me. Meanwhile 70s shows I have no interest in revisiting, despite several attempts to recapture the joy. Maybe it has to be something created before I was born. :)


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I watched the Logan's Run movie the other day—first I've really watched the complete movie all the way through since I
saw it in a theater in the mid 70s—and… my eyes went "Oh, look at the toy sets being used for the tube cars," but that was
still okay. My eyes pretty much yell "CGI" at me too when I'm watching the newer movies. If anything, I appreciate more the
special effects that went into shows from the 70s more than those being made 50 years later.

And although I haven't watched The Six Million Dollar Man since it originally aired, I bet I would still enjoy it for all the reasons
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Jeff wrote:
Some things hold up for me despite their dated forms. For instance, I love the old Ray Harryhausen stop motion movies despite their relative cheesiness. My youngest son does too. It's not the special effects or fashions (although period pieces like Sinbad largely make the latter irrelevant). I can't actually define what makes a show hold up for me or not, thinking about it. I mean, Star Trek fits every mold of its time period and should not hold up, but surely does for me. Meanwhile 70s shows I have no interest in revisiting, despite several attempts to recapture the joy. Maybe it has to be something created before I was born. :)



I like watching some of the episodes, for the reasons Jay talks about (And have no doubt at all that Simon would love every minute of it!).

But I think I can understand where Jeff is coming from also. TV series of the 1970s had some distinctive features in terms of what they looked like and how they did things. If something about that turns you off, it's hard to just overlook.

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George Reeves' Superman was my introduction to the character, I saw that before I ever read a Superman comic, so I've always loved that show. I'd watch it again and love that as well.

Australian TV during my childhood was a mash-up of current stuff and stuff that was constantly being re-run. I grew up seeing the same episodes of Lost In Space, Nanny & The Professor, The Brady Bunch, My Three Sons, F-Troop, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Flying Nun, I Dream of Jeannie, My Favorite Martian, and pretty much every classic TV show from the 50's onward. They were always on, especially in children's viewing hours.

I'd watch them all now. I'd love them. :)

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George Reeves' Superman was my introduction to the character, I saw that before I ever read a Superman comic, so I've always loved that show. I'd watch it again and love that as well.

Australian TV during my childhood was a mash-up of current stuff and stuff that was constantly being re-run. I grew up seeing the same episodes of Lost In Space, Nanny & The Professor, The Brady Bunch, My Three Sons, F-Troop, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Flying Nun, I Dream of Jeannie, My Favorite Martian, and pretty much every classic TV show from the 50's onward. They were always on, especially in children's viewing hours.

I'd watch them all now. I'd love them. :)


There were a lot of reruns of that sort running on local American stations at that time as well. American reruns were probably at their most widespread around that time.

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Almost forgot to length to the fifth-season reviews:


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