I swear this is my last post about Heroes
We’ve discussed Heroes quite a bit here on Legion of Doom. Doom DeLuise and his brother hate it. I really like it. Jean-Claude Van Doom also seems to enjoy it a lot. I know Colonel Doom watches it, but I don’t think he has a strong opinion either way. And I’m pretty sure Jim Doom stopped watching after the first episode.
What I want to say about the show isn’t about how good it is or how bad it is. It’s about a cool little bit of info I just found out, and might bring a little more appreciation to the show from comics fans.
You see that picture up at the top? It’s one of Isaac Mendez’s paintings from the show. That particular one I don’t remember seeing on the show, but it struck me as the coolest of the bunch. Looks pretty good, right?
You know why? Because Tim Sale did it. He did them all. The very same Tim Sale we all enjoyed in Superman Confidential #1 and the very same Time Sale that did Daredevil: Yellow. Not only that, but Dave Stewart, the guy that did the colors, was the colorist on DC: The New Frontier.
Pretty cool, huh?
You’ll notice, if you read my rantings and ravings about how much the show sucks that I never mentioned anything about Isaac Mendez’s paintings being bad. Y’know, my beef is with the lazy writing and the atrocious marketing and the overall worthlessness of the show. But, yeah, I knew Tim Sale was drawing those all along. There’s a really cool interview with him on Newsarama about it.
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=91047
But, yeah, interesting trivia aside, the show still sucks. Did you see Monday’s episode? I did, and it was real bad.
A bit of information that actually has me, surprisingly, excited about it, though, is that I heard Sean Bean has been cast to play the evil Sylar guy. And, for some odd reason, I really like Sean Bean. So, I’m going to start watching it again on a regular basis. Mostly just to make fun of it, though. I’ll still do lots of that.
Did you just ignore how I prefaced my statement by saying it wasn’t about the show being good or bad?
Oh, and I linked that same article in my post. Also, Sean Bean is sweet. Also, wasn’t that black guy hanging around with Claire’s dad already called Sylar, or did I just imagine that?
I don’t care what you prefaced it with. Yes, I read that. But, you also said you really like it in your opening paragraph, so I figured I’d tell you why it sucks again. Don’t make me post another rant!
I didn’t notice you posted that interview link, though. I figured it was a link to a biography or something.
Oh, by the way, I just bought the TPB of “Superman For All Seasons” today. I’m gonna post a review of that here soon. Seriously, Tim Sale is a great artist. Too bad lots of his stuff on “Heroes” isn’t all that good, given the fact that he has certain limitations put on him by the structure of the show. He addresses that directly in his interview.
We were led to believe either the black Haitian guy or Claire’s dad were Sylar, since they were supposedly the evil ones. It wasn’t outright said, just strongly hinted at, which was revealed false this past week when we learned that Claire’s dad is just trying to save her.
And I really liked the last episode. It was a calm before the storm kind of thing, except it wasn’t calm, with all kinds of crazy stuff going on. A lot is riding on next week, though. It’s the first HUGE episode (Save the Cheerleader… blah, blah, blah) and needs to deliver. We’ll see.