[Hero]

I was searching some of the threads in the Tim Sale forum at comicworldnews, and I found these threads which first talk about the story and the art of HEROES. I'm quite the newcomer! One discussion was started (way) back in February, but the show wasn't on my radar until late May... Just thought ya might be interested in the "old" news (but time's relative, right?). 8)

One of the first threads about HEROES (with artwork on the second page)
The Train Wreck (colored by Dave Stewart)
A HEROES article in Dreamwatch

[Super Ordinary Guy]

Once again Hero you’ve done an excellent job finding some great stuff! Here are some snippets I found interesting taken from the links provided. Again Hero, great job!

The first snippet makes me think that astral projection (A possible way to explain Niki’s power) might not be the way TPTB go. The second snippet is completely a Lost/Jeph Loeb thing, not worth reading if not a fan of Lost. The Third snippet is Tim Sale’s perspective on how a TV pilot gets made, but he focuses mainly on set production and prop management.

Originally Posted by Tim Sale

The show is a hybrid UNBREAKABLE/X-FILES/LOST hybrid, very mysterious and supernatural (in a superhero way, not a CHARMED way) with a cast of dozens, all interwoven. <snip> I can tell you that the tree frog from last week is Jeph's. He paid his daughter $20 to capture a tree frog that was keeping Jeph up at night and making him crazy. She did not, however, squish it. <snip> but when it comes to coloring my inkwash drawings, really, why go anywhere but to Dave Stewart and Mark Chiarello? If the show gets picked up, I would love to get Dave and Mark involved as much as I can -- more Dave, because Mark is in an administrative position at DC. <snip> Tim Kring, and all the crew go about their jobs fashioning the scene. Interesting, creative, grueling, repetetive work. I arrived at 11:30, and watched them walk through the first of four scenes they were to film that day in the loft. By 7:30, when I left, they were just about done with the first one, and I had heard the actors say their same lines maybe 25-30 times, and I wondered that at any ability they had to sound even remotely fresh with any of it. But to see everyone make the scene take shape was very impressive. I was struck any number of times by the ways that what the film crew did and what I do, overlap. Setting the scene, deciding the movement, what needs to be shown and when, what is extraneous, all the stuff that we call storytelling. Never having been to a set before, I nonetheless felt not out of place. And visiting the prop masters office, Gay Perello, I had a first hand view of the accumulation of stuff that is collected to fill out various scenes, and was impressed with the combination of winging it, faking it, and authenticity that is part of her job. Deciding what little touches create an feeling of reality, and when the impression of it is as good (and sometimes better) than reality itself. Which, again is what I do all day.

(He briefly mentions that the pilot had been extended to the 2-hour pilot, but that was probably the 72-minute screener.)

Tim Sale has a photobucket account!!! (http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a112/timsale/)

Tim Sale also is not afraid to double-post. hehe

http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=22457

Originally Posted by aintitcool

Or the priest, who...well, he's bad news.

(I wonder if this part was edited out or if it might come back)

[Hero]

Thanks SOG; I try not to post too much junk! I also thought it was interesting that, at least back in February, HEROES was credited as being on abc! It's funny to me that within a year some spark that may have only been a bright idea comes to life and now we all wanna be in on the scoop!