Dynamite Entertainment has announced its new Bionic Man title.

The series – based on The Six Million Dollar Man television series – will be written by director Kevin Smith, working alongside Phil Hester and Jonathan Lau. Alex Ross will provide the cover art.

The team previously worked together on another of Dynamite’s licensed titles, Green Hornet.

“True story: when I turned in a script for The Six Million Dollar Man back in ’98, there was an exec who dismissed it as being more like a comic book than a movie,” said Smith. “It’s an honor to head back into the trenches with the same creative team at Dynamite that made my Green Hornet script so readable and fun. It makes me moist.”

“I’m one of those kids who grew up with The Six Million Dollar Man toys all over my house,” said Ross. “I still prize them as one of the favorite parts of my youth for the amazing variety of things that Steve Austin could use or fight against. The Six Million Dollar Man is one of the coolest original superhero properties invented for television.”

The comic tells the story of Steve Austin, a former astronaut who is injured in a crash and ‘rebuilt’ with bionic implants. The original television series ran from 1973 to 1978, including three feature-length movies. It spawned the Bionic Woman spinoff, the starring character of which will also appear in the comic.

Last month, Dynamite CEO Nick Barrucci confessed that the publisher “overdid” the volume of its Green Hornet tie-ins.

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