Jul 21, 2014
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John and Paul have been given a new Critical Assignment. With
the success of The Six Million Dollar Man Season 6 by Dynamite
Comics, it stood to reason that a The Bionic Woman Season 4 comic
would follow. But as most bionic fans know, The Bionic Woman
does not usually feature the same kind of story telling as her male
counterpart. Dynamite's previous attempt at a Bionic Woman
comic was less than stellar. Is it possible they can get it
right by using the original source material? Writer Brandon
Jerwa has been tapped for the assignment and he sits down with John
and Paul to discuss what he feels it will take to make The Bionic
Woman a successful comic for both the fans of the series and the
general comic book reader.
00:00 - Show introduction
03:00 - Bionic Renaissance
04:10 - Brandon Introduction
08:00 - "Where you a fan of Six
Million Dollar Man & Bionic
Woman?"
12:45 - Viewing the Differences Between the Two Bionic Shows and
Characters
19:55 - Announcing The Six Million Dollar Man Season
6
21:30 - Where Dynamite's First Bionic
Woman Went Wrong
23:25 - Picking Up Where "On the Run" Left
Off
25:55 - An "All Ages" Comic
29:00 - Dialogue That Sums Up Jaime
Sommers
31:25 - How Brandon Got the Gig
35:20 - Brandon Will Come Back If We're Not Satisfied
35:55 - Who From the Series Will We See?
37:10 - "Will We See the Coach House?"
38:35 - "Where Does the Story Take Place in Relation
to Six
Million Dollar Man Season 6?"
40:10 - Likenesses of the Characters
44:45 - Brandon's Documentary and the Prism
Award
53:45 - Brandon on the Web
55:20 - Sign Off
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Brandon's Links
Brandon Jerwa is a writer, musician, and recently,
a documentarian. He's been writing
comics for over 10 years - and is no stranger to licensed tie-in
storytelling. In 2003 he broke into the industry - literally - as a
fan, submitting a GI JOE script to DEVILS DUE COMICS who was
publishing the title at the time. They liked it, hired him to write
the story for A G.I. Joe anthology and then gave him the main book
to write a few months later. He even had a GI JOE action figure
made in his likeness!
In 2006 Brandon went to work for Dynamite Comics, doing a stint on
their HIGHLANDER tie-in before enjoying a very popular run on their
BATTLESTAR GALLACTICA tie-in 2007.
Since then he's written for more high-profile comics publishers
like IMAGE COMICS, VERTIGO and DC
Comics.
In 2011 Brandon ventured into documentary filmmaking with an
ambitious peak into the world of comic books and telling the
stories of the people who make them. We'll talk more about that
later on.
In 2012 Brandon’s work on the Graphic Novel SHOOTERS about a
Post-9-11 IRAQI War veteran WON a PRISM AWARD recognizing the
comic’s accurate depiction of mental
illness.
Brandon is no stranger to podcasting, you can hear him DAILY on BJ
SHEA'S GEEK NATION PODCAST which covers all things geeky in NEWS,
TV, MOVIES, COMICS.
On JUNE 15th of 2014, based on the success of their SIX MILLION
DOLLAR MAN SEASON SIX title (by James Kuhoric), Dynamite revealed
to BLEEDING COOL.com that they would be releasing a BIONIC WOMAN
SEASON FOUR title in SEPTEMBER. Written by Brandon Jerwa, art by
David T. Cabrera and a cover for issue one by Sean Chen along with
a photo cover of series star Lindsay Wagner. We'll get to Chen's
cover in a moment, too.
In that brief news item, Brandon is quoted saying, “If you’ve never
seen the show, or haven’t read James Kuhoric’s Six Million Dollar
Man comic, you’re still totally fine, longtime fans won’t be left
out in the cold, though. The Bionic Woman: Season Four is a
continuation of the classic TV series, so I’m definitely treating
it as such in terms of continuity and thematic
carry-through.”