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Heroes Embrace, Cast Comic Book Fans

Graeme McMillan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:30:00 PDT

It's taken them three seasons, but Heroes is finally embracing its heritage with the announcement that Seth Green and Breckin Meyer are to join the cast of NBC's superhuman drama, playing two massive comic book nerds. Does this mean that we're going to see more of 9th Wonders, the show's deus ex comic book plot device?

According to Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello, the two fanboys are going to "cross paths with (and perhaps serve as advisors to) one of the Heroes." No mention of which Hero it would be, but my fingers are crossed that it's not the already-geeky Hiro. Instead, why not show someone with imagination teaching Peter what he can really do with all those powers of his, or teach Sylar that, with great power, comes great responsibility?

Exclusive: 'Heroes' Geeks Out Over Seth Green, Breckin Meyer [EW.com]

(Almost) All of Star Trek's Comic Book Adventures Come To DVD

Graeme McMillan — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:30:00 PDT

Just in time for those of us making very early holiday gift lists, TrekMovie has news of the ideal present for the comic-book-reading Star Trek fan in your life. Especially if that happens to be yourself: A DVD compilation spanning 35 years (and five publishers) of four-color voyages called Star Trek The Complete Comic Book Collection.

Produced by GITCorp, the DVD will include PDF versions of more than 500 different Star Trek comics from Gold Key's original 1967 series all the way through to DC/Wildstorm's early 21-century efforts (IDW and Tokyopop's more recent series won't be included, but are still in print for you to read the old-fashioned way):

Each issue is being scanned by the company, cover to cover, including all of the advertising, and stored in individual PDF archives. GITCorp is using an interface similar to their prior DVD comic collections to access the PDFs in the collection. The DVDs can be used on both Windows and Macintosh computers.

Putting together a collection spanning four decades has not been an easy task, especially due to the fact that Trek comics have been produced by so many different publishers over the years. According to Ray Pelosi from GITCorp, it has been a daunting to get all the comics and to sort out all the licensing issues required to bring it to market and he thanks CBS Products for all the help they provided to make it all happen.

As someone who still has a deep and abiding love for Peter David's run on the DC series in the early '90s, the idea of being able to re-read all of those issues (and try and get past by fear of Pablo Marcos' art on the Next Generation series of the same period) for $50 is more than a little tempting, I have to admit. Is it too late for me to start believing in Santa again?

TrekInk: First Look At Star Trek: The Complete Comic Book Collection DVD [TrekMovie]

Fugly-Twin Powers, Activate!

Kevin Kelly — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:20:34 PST

We told you yesterday about the upcoming line of Heroes figures, and now we've tracked down more images of the first wave of toys based on the hit NBC show. These are apparently all prototype figures — the real ones will be out later this year. Based on what we've seen, maybe that means there's still a chance to go back and fix things like making Claire actually look like her character, and having Sylar not look like a neanderthal. Check out more mind-bogglingly awful details and pictures inside, like Sylar with his awesome brain accessory.

They've given man-bags to all the guys on the show, except Sylar. Is that the hot new hero fashion accessory of the year?
Sylar might include an alternate pointing "let me open your head up" finger-hand, as well as a "shards of flying glass" accessory hand. Oh, and a baseball cap.
Claire would come with alternate "injured" body parts that you can swap out, featuring "regularly occurring forehead injury" head.
Peter in a double-hoodie wearing outfit, and would have extra "radioactive" hands that look like he stuck them in boiling water. Ouch.
Hiro comes with "Ando's sword" covered in blood (what?) and his alternate "constipated" power-activating head.
Mohinder comes with a tiny version of his dad's Activating Evolution book, complete with his picture on the back cover.
There will be a special "Flying" Peter figure, who basically looks like he has a swooshing coat, at a retailer to be named later.
Mohinder was going to come with a set of his files, and an urn containing his father's ashes. Which would have been weird. Does he carry that urn around on the show?
Of course, raddest accessory ever: Sylar comes with a brain.

Out of the whole set pictured here, which would constitute the first wave of figures, only Peter really looks fairly close to the real deal, complete with his emo haircut. The rest of the gang could do with a makeover, including everyone's favorite baddie, Sylar.

Images from the March 2008 Issue of Toyfare Magazine, Issue #127.

The Coolness of New "Heroes" Action Figures? Not So Much.

Kevin Kelly — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:00:06 PST

The most recent issue of Toyfare magazine came out yesterday, and it has a spread on all the new Heroes action figures that'll be out later this year. Since it's looking less and less likely that you'll be seeing new episodes anytime soon, it might be time to pick up some of these and bust out that video camera. Unfortunately, the Sylar figure does not have brain-eating action, so you might want to add your own visual effects. Maybe even ones that make these figures look a bit better because... yow.

Next Week On Heroes: Claire Gets Picked Up

charliejane — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:36:23 PDT

You can add "Are you a robot or an alien?" to your list of can't-miss pick-up lines, judging from this preview clip of Monday's Heroes. The dorky flying boy tossed out some "negs," just like on The Pickup Artist, and now he's already making nookie with Claire. And just watch how West kino-escalates. It's pretty awesome stuff.

NBC also released two other preview clips of the next Heroes, in which Peter and Mohinder realize getting into bed with bad guys may rumple their jammies. Actually, the "getting into bed" thing may be more literal in the case of Mohinder, whose new boss seems to have the hots for him.

3 Preview Clips From Season 2 Episode 3 [HeroesTheSeries.com]