Bleh. I was really worried for this one because I really like Cosmic Ghost Rider and this was the first time Donny Cates wasn't writing him. Plus, the only other comics I've read by these writers were very forgettable fill-in Spider-Man/Deadpool issues. Overall, I think this sucks. It's just too dumb for me. And I really hate that it is actually relevant to Cosmic Ghost Rider's journey and how that makes it important to read. A lot of dumb people that don't understand Frank Castle think that Cosmic Ghost Rider is a betrayal of the character and a Deadpool clone. He's not. If he was, this is the series you'd get. I'm so disappointed. more

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 potential. 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.
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I have loved everything Donny Cates has done with his creation, that is the cosmic ghost Rider, but this, ugh, no thanks.

Thought this was a really good ending. It had plenty of cool moments, and managed to get the characters right.

This was okay. I'm starting to lose interest in this series. It was so very cool early on but it seems to have lost itself in telling a grander story.

Not as stellar as the previous issue for it mostly focused on team dynamics rather than advancing plot. That said, I really love the way Cates voices all these unique voices and relates his story to the continuity of the Guardians of the past five years or so. I will continue reading this even though this felt mostly like filler.

I think I'm in love.

I really enjoyed this. The art was great. I thought it was really funny at times, especially the Groot and Cosmic Ghost Rider battle. The new team introduced seem like its gonna make a fun rivalry. I really hope the character shown at the end joins the team. Overall im just really hyped for whats to come.