Sweet! Tim Sale Drawn Menus For Heroes

[HGervais]

Very nice. Noted comic book artist Tim Sale did all the comic artwork featured in the first season of Heroes and he also did the menus for the DVD set due out 08/28. TV Shows on DVD has the pretty pictures.

[BrettCullum]

Very pretty. This looks to be the classiest must have DVD package of the near future.

Now my really nagging question... will they be able to comeback and rally after the finale failed to truly deliver on the promise of the carefully crafted series? HEROES was the best new show of last year, and the DVD set will break records I'm betting. Here's to hoping all the best for the new season.

[HGervais]

Now my really nagging question... will they be able to comeback and rally after the finale failed to truly deliver on the promise of the carefully crafted series? HEROES was the best new show of last year, and the DVD set will break records I'm betting. Here's to hoping all the best for the new season.

It concerns me as well. The big thing that encourages me is I've seen & heard several interviews with Heroes producers where they speak of learning the lessons of serialized shows such as Lost and how they don't want to make the same mistakes. Here is hoping.

[BrettCullum]

The big thing that encourages me is I've seen & heard several interviews with Heroes producers where they speak of learning the lessons of serialized shows such as Lost and how they don't want to make the same mistakes. Here is hoping.

What discourages me is that EVERY producing team says they learned lessons from previous shows. I recall Lost's team preaching they learned from Twin Peaks and The X Files. But to me they all seem light years different. Lost and Heroes don't seem comparable. One is a tight loopy mystery, and the other is comic geek nirvana. I follow both for different reasons.

What I do love about both series is they seem to go hog wild on the DVD releases. I am really psyched to see if Kring's pilot differs in tone radically from what came on the air. And it will be nice to rewatch the season in marathon sessions. That will serve it well.

[HGervais]

The big thing that encourages me is I've seen & heard several interviews with Heroes producers where they speak of learning the lessons of serialized shows such as Lost and how they don't want to make the same mistakes. Here is hoping.

What discourages me is that EVERY producing team says they learned lessons from previous shows. I recall Lost's team preaching they learned from Twin Peaks and The X Files. But to me they all seem light years different. Lost and Heroes don't seem comparable. One is a tight loopy mystery, and the other is comic geek nirvana. I follow both for different reasons.

Well, I guess the main difference is that Lost producer Damon Lindelof worked for Tim Kring when he was running Crossing Jordan and Heroes producer Jesse Alexander worked on both Alias & Lost. According to an interview I heard with Alexander, the guys all stay in touch and tell each other what worked and what didn't on their respective shows. So who knows?

Speaking of Crossing Jordan...was it any good? I had no idea it lasted 6 years.