Heroes
Heroes actor Todd Staswick and artist Dennis Calero look for the Devil Inside
No, it’ s not an INXS tribute.
It’s a “guns blazing, white-knuckled, preternatural joy ride to hell and back,” according to its creators Dennis Calero (Solar Man of the Atom, X-Men: Noir) and actor Todd Staswick (Heroes, The Riches). Devil Inside is a new online strip that follows an arcane drifter named Jack Springheel (Springheel Jack, get it??) who’s on the run with a bounty on his head. Sara Lima at ComicVine did an interview with them about the series in July.
Devil Inside is 28 pages into its run, and Calero and Staswick post up a new installment each week on Staswick’s website.
- January 21, 2011 @ 01:00 PM by Chris Arrant
See Carnival of Souls comparisons from $60-million Heroes lawsuit
Carnival of Souls #1
Carnival Comics has provided Robot 6 with a copy of Jazan Wild’s $60-million lawsuit against NBC and Heroes creator Tim Kring, complete with color images detailing alleged similarities between the TV series and the comic Carnival of Souls.
The lawsuit, filed May 13 in Los Angeles federal court, alleges that the traveling carnival featured prominently in the fourth season of Heroes is “virtually identical” to the one depicted in Wild’s 2005-2006 comic series.
Wild (aka Jason Barnes) wants to prevent NBC from rebroadcasting the season, and seeks compensatory and punitive damages for copyright infringement, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage, unfair competition and unjust enrichment.
After the break you can see some of the side-by-side comparisons from the complaint:
- May 19, 2010 @ 04:00 AM by Kevin Melrose
Comic creator sues for $60 million over Heroes carnival storyline
From "Jazan Wild's Carnival of Souls"
Just a day before NBC announced the cancellation of Heroes, a comic creator sued the network and Tim Kring’s Tailwind Productions, claiming they ripped off the “carnival of lost souls and outcasts” used in the show’s fourth season.
In a lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles federal court, Jazan Wild (aka Jason Barnes) claims the traveling carnival that menaced the final season of the NBC drama is “virtually identical” to the one depicted in his 2005-2006 comic series Jazan Wild’s Carnival of Souls.
“The settings and the storylines are virtually the same,” the complaint states. “The main character in both stories leads a carnival of lost souls and outcasts. This dark character seeks to make his carnival more powerful by recruiting new members with special abilities. The appearance of some of the characters is also virtually identical to those in the plaintiff’s books. [...] Even the dialogue is similar. Indeed, some of the scenes in Heroes appear as if plaintiff’s books were used as storyboards by the defendants.”
- May 17, 2010 @ 07:30 AM by Kevin Melrose
Heroes, Season 4: Greater evil, greater good … greater cleavage?
"Heroes" Season 4 poster
James Hibberd has the promotional poster for the fourth season of NBC’s Heroes, in which Claire Bennett apparently becomes Power Girl.
I’m not sure which is more distracting, the Star Trek-style lens flare over Spock’s Sylar’s shoulder, or — wait, no, I’m sure. Eyes forward, Hiro.
- August 20, 2009 @ 09:26 AM by Kevin Melrose
SDCC ’09 | Another round of pictures
Iron Men
Here are a few more pictures I took at the San Diego Comic-Con last week, many of which appeared on the CBR Live blog already, but I thought I’d group them all together over here. The picture above shows the four sets of Iron Man armor (Iron Men?) from the Marvel booth this year.
- July 29, 2009 @ 12:02 PM by JK Parkin