Emma
11-10-2006, 05:28 PM
<img src="http://www.fanbolt.com/forums/images/avatars/heroes/101806heroes07.jpg" width="85" height="85" vspace="5" hspace="5" align="right" border="0" alt="Heroes, NBC"> One of the best comic books I’ve seen lately is on television.
“Heroes” debuted on NBC on Sept. 25 and should be pretty familiar turf to fans of superheroes and related genres. It’s an ensemble story about a number of ordinary people suddenly gaining extraordinary abilities and how they deal with them.
Which sounds like a number of familiar comic book properties, such as “X-Men,” or J. Michael Straczynski’s “Rising Stars” or even Marvel’s “New Universe.” But creator, producer and writer Tim Kring (“Crossing Jordan”) says in interviews in “Starlog” and “Comics Buyer’s Guide” that he went out of his way to avoid making it a genre show – so don’t expect to see any Spandex or Batcaves or crime-fighting. He says it’s about the characters, not the superpowers (and so far, it really is).
But there are superpowers. And even though Kring consulted with (and hired) popular comics writer Jeph Loeb (who has also worked on TV shows such as “Lost” and “Smallville”), he said it was nearly impossible to come up with powers that haven’t “been done 50 times over, by many different people, many different ways (Starlog No. 349).”
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“Heroes” debuted on NBC on Sept. 25 and should be pretty familiar turf to fans of superheroes and related genres. It’s an ensemble story about a number of ordinary people suddenly gaining extraordinary abilities and how they deal with them.
Which sounds like a number of familiar comic book properties, such as “X-Men,” or J. Michael Straczynski’s “Rising Stars” or even Marvel’s “New Universe.” But creator, producer and writer Tim Kring (“Crossing Jordan”) says in interviews in “Starlog” and “Comics Buyer’s Guide” that he went out of his way to avoid making it a genre show – so don’t expect to see any Spandex or Batcaves or crime-fighting. He says it’s about the characters, not the superpowers (and so far, it really is).
But there are superpowers. And even though Kring consulted with (and hired) popular comics writer Jeph Loeb (who has also worked on TV shows such as “Lost” and “Smallville”), he said it was nearly impossible to come up with powers that haven’t “been done 50 times over, by many different people, many different ways (Starlog No. 349).”
<a href="http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/living/15978661.htm" target="_blank">Click here for more!</a>