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A character thriller, aired by the American TV broadcaster NBC, Heroes, got great reviews recently, some of which speculated that its everyday people suddenly discovering superpowers could make a great comic book. The show already had that idea-its makers launched an online graphic novel that reveals chapters each week alongside Monday night's episode airings. At nbc.com/heroes/novels, fans can interact with the Web's Flash creation or download a printable version at an impressive 12 megabytes for six vibrant colour "pages." The debut explores the background of the investigating Suresh character (Sendhil Ramamurthy) in ways the on-air show can't. Each chapter "won't necessarily be about that episode," series creator Tim Kring said in a recent conference call, "but it can be an alternate look at what you've seen, or a story that just enhances your appreciation of the characters." Heroes was "always designed to have a large online component," Kring says, "so in the development of the show, we took a lot of that into consideration to have the time and personnel to handle it." He hired as one of his co-executive producers Jeph Loeb, who has worked at both Marvel and DC supervising the likes of Superman and Batman (the Hush tales). Loeb had collaborated with
superstar artist Tim Sale, who's not only overseeing the online Heroes
comics, but providing two of the show's tantalizing on-air clues-the
future-event paintings that torment artist character Isaac Mendez (Santiago
Cabrera) and the equally predicting comic book 9th Wonders by which
time-bender Hiro (Masi Oka) plots his next moves. Learn more at fan site
www.9thwonders.com. —LAT/WP
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