Book: Li'l Bionic Kids #1 by Brandon Jerwa with illustrations and letters by Ian McGinty and color by Andrew Elder
Cover by Art Baltazar and Special Two Page Activity Sheets by Roger Langridge and Andrew Elder
Edition: Single Print Issue
Description:
Better! Stronger! Faster! and smaller?! Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers are the newest students at A.S.I. - the Academy of Science Intelligence, a school for the unique and gifted.
They're also both cyborgs - human kids with a variety of high-tech body parts and modifications.
Can these two outsiders put aside their shyness, and a growing rivalry, in time to take a stand against alien invaders who are determined to ruin the A.S.I. Track and Field Day?
And if that isn't enough, each Li'l book comes with a two-page activity sheet!
Rating: 4 1/2 stars
Review:
This Li'l Bionic Kids one-shot is adorable fun as it follows little Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers. After they were injured on the playground, Jaime and Steve were able to be saved. As the first bionic kids they are now better, stronger and faster.
To learn how to better use their abilities, they were enrolled in the Academy of Scientific Intelligence (A.S.I.) which is a school for very different and gifted students. Being new students at the school did not go very well especially with Jaime clashing with the Fem-Bots while Steve seems to have made an enemy of Freddie Sloan.
Steve and Jaime did eventually make new friends, Marcus Grayson and Irina Leonova. And they are going to need all the help they can get to win the games at their school's Track and Field Day especially since they will be competing against Sloan and the Fem-Bots.
Unbeknownst to everyone at the school, they were being spied on by a mysterious group who have plans to derail the games.
This is a cute and charming little book that I hope readers of all ages will enjoy. I think the writer did a good job capturing the essence and feel of the TV shows yet giving a fresh take for younger readers. The writing is obviously written with kids in mind but it's not overly simplistic which makes it a fun read for both kids and adults. The writing is easy to follow along and the characters who are mainly kids are written how you would expect kids to be. I think fans of The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman will like how characters from the TV series are incorporated in this.
I really like the illustrations they're colorful and the cartoonish style should appeal to young readers. As a comic book geek, I feel like there are not enough comic books for kids. Which is why I love finding these all ages comics to read and review in hopes that kids will have a variety of books to choose from.
No comments:
Post a Comment