Heroes, as almost everyone I've spoken to agrees, is a phenomenal show.
For me, though, it's più than that. As a die-hard comic book fan since the age of two, it's a dream come true.
Everything I loved about comics growing up is encapsulated in Heroes. The heroes, the villains, the powers, everything.
It's a Voices (Pitch Perfect) comic tale, yet is also fresh and original.
What boggles my mind is that Tim Kring*, the show-runner, has never read a comic book. Seriously.
I know, it shocked me too. But it's true. While one of the writers and executive producers is comic great Jeph Loeb**, the man in charge of the mostra went into this project without a history with, o background in, comic books.
Maybe it's that fact that allows Heroes to feel like a fresh take on the genre. Kring was able to go into the project without feeling like he needed to obey certain cliches o follow certain rules.
Loeb, on the other hand, is an uber-geek like me. He knows everything about comics. I think that the mesh of his comic knowledge and Kring's fresh vision has resulted in a wonderful piece of comic fiction, one that would work as well on the four-color page as it does on the tv screen.
And thank god for that.
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Footnote:
*For the over 30 crowd, it might make te smile to know that Kring wrote for another mostra involving super-powers, the short lived "Misfits of Science."
**Jeph Loeb's long time collaborator, Tim Sale, is responsible for all of the art in the series, from the paintings to the comics to sketches. His art is great, and I am happy to see him get the attention he deserves.
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For me, though, it's più than that. As a die-hard comic book fan since the age of two, it's a dream come true.
Everything I loved about comics growing up is encapsulated in Heroes. The heroes, the villains, the powers, everything.
It's a Voices (Pitch Perfect) comic tale, yet is also fresh and original.
What boggles my mind is that Tim Kring*, the show-runner, has never read a comic book. Seriously.
I know, it shocked me too. But it's true. While one of the writers and executive producers is comic great Jeph Loeb**, the man in charge of the mostra went into this project without a history with, o background in, comic books.
Maybe it's that fact that allows Heroes to feel like a fresh take on the genre. Kring was able to go into the project without feeling like he needed to obey certain cliches o follow certain rules.
Loeb, on the other hand, is an uber-geek like me. He knows everything about comics. I think that the mesh of his comic knowledge and Kring's fresh vision has resulted in a wonderful piece of comic fiction, one that would work as well on the four-color page as it does on the tv screen.
And thank god for that.
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Footnote:
*For the over 30 crowd, it might make te smile to know that Kring wrote for another mostra involving super-powers, the short lived "Misfits of Science."
**Jeph Loeb's long time collaborator, Tim Sale, is responsible for all of the art in the series, from the paintings to the comics to sketches. His art is great, and I am happy to see him get the attention he deserves.
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