JIM LEE, MICHAEL TURNER & MORE ON “HEROES” ONLINE COMIC – Comic Book Resources
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JIM LEE, MICHAEL TURNER & MORE ON “HEROES” ONLINE COMIC
by Jonah Weiland, Executive Producer
Posted: September 6, 2006
When the NBC television show “Heroes”
makes its debut on September 25th, viewers will see a new take on the
super hero genre, one which firmly plants an ensemble cast of
characters with some sort of extra normal ability in the real world,
albeit without the capes and spandex. The inclusion of Tim Sale and
Jeph Loeb as part of the series certainly helps bring it closer to the
comics industry, but “Heroes” itself is an entirely new creation from
creator Tim Kring (“Crossing Jordan”). The show contains all new
characters not based on any existing published characters, but that
doesn’t mean comics won’t play a role.
CBR News has learned
that “Heroes” will include a comic component. Running concurrently with
the show will be 22 online comics running each week the show airs,
which will help to fill out the larger storyline and mythology behind
the series. The first comic includes art from Michael Turner and Koi
Turnbull, with Tim Sale and Jim Lee set to be part of the fun. The
comics will be written internally by members of the writing staff like
Aron Coleite (“The Covenant“),
Jeph Loeb and Bryan Fuller (“Dead Like Me,” “Wonderfalls”). We spoke
with series creator Tim Kring who provided a few more details about the
online comics.
“I’m looking at the
first one right now and let me say they’re going to be spectacular,”
Kring told CBR News from his Los Angeles office Wednesday afternoon.
“The comics will contain both ancillary material and additive material
to the show. Not necessarily a retelling, but a kind of different
direction into the story. In other words, if you read them you will
have sort of greater and deeper knowledge of the stories you’re seeing.
So, often times it may tell a story from another side or through
another character or may contain the missing beats of the story not
told on the show. Say a character gets to a certain place in the TV
show and you jumped him past four or five story beats, you’ll get a
chance to see how he got there in the comic.”
For anyone who’s
followed Jeph Loeb’s career in comics one can assume based on that
preliminary list of artists that Loeb was a major force in getting
these comics made, which Kring said certainly did help. “The truth of
the matter is Tim Sale was brought onto the show before Jeph, although
I got to Tim through Jeph because Jeph and I have been friends for
many, many years,” said Kring. “When I talked with Jeph about this
early on – Jeph and I had several conversations while I was writing the
pilot – I told him I wanted to include some artwork in the script as a
sales device. Basically, I wanted to hire an artist out of my own
pocket to do just a few pieces for the script. So, I asked Jeph to send
me a couple of people and he got me in touch with Tim. That’s how that
started.
“So, whether it was
Tim’s involvement or Jeph’s involvement, I don’t know, but the show got
a lot of buzz following Comic-Con International, so we were sort of on
everybody’s radar when we went and approached these people. Certainly
Jeph’s knowledge of the comics business and the people in it has been a
huge help and you could couldn’t ask for more.”
But will these online
comics see publication in the real world anytime soon? “I would
certainly hope so and I’m hoping there aren’t any legal issues in doing
that, but my guess is – listen, I’m looking right now at color copies
of these things and I just don’t know why you wouldn’t. They are
spectacular.”
“Heroes” debuts on NBC
Monday, September 25th at 9:00 PM. Look for a longer interview with
Kring, along with a review of the pilot and an interview with cast
member Greg Gunberg in the weeks to come right here on CBR.
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