In its article about NBC’s refocused Internet plans, The Hollywood Reporter notes that the network will expand its Heroes 360 Experience, introduced earlier this year, and continue the online graphic novel after the hit show’s first season wraps up on May 8.
A video series that goes behind the scenes of the Heroes production also is in the works.
March 22nd, 2007 at 10:17 am
It’s a sad state when even a show like Heroes, so wholly indebted to comics, can’t even bring themselves to say the word.
March 22nd, 2007 at 10:40 am
“Comic book” has gained a lot of negative baggage over the years: too geeky, too insular, too intolerant, too threatening, etc. So, I’m not shocked that NBC would call their online Heroes comics “graphic novels,” which is a newer term and thus hasn’t been stereotyped by the general public.
It’s unfair, but understandable.
March 22nd, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Given the success of Heroes, wouldn’t it be a good tool to start reversing the negative stereotype surrounding comics? With huge ratings, box office receipts, and other media ventures going well for comics, you’d think someone would actually start trying to build the industry off of it.
March 22nd, 2007 at 1:09 pm
The publics opinion about Comics needs to change, if the term Graphic Novel helps push that, then I’m all for it.
March 22nd, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Oh, and they are not fooling anybody, everybody knows it’s comics.
March 22nd, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Well, if they’re doing one story throughout the summer focusing on a character only marginally seen on the show (Hana), or a character whose story may have been moved to another medium for various reasons (Zach), “graphic novel” would be an accurate description.
March 22nd, 2007 at 2:09 pm
I’m just complaining because ‘graphic novel’ has an actual definition. It doesn’t apply to a handful of comics pages posted on the internet. DKR wasn’t a graphic novel. It was a mini-series. The Sandman books aren’t graphic novels, they’re collected editions or trade paperbacks.
The only reason I notice it so much is that I once had an editor who couldn’t bring herself to say the word ‘comics’ or ‘comic books’ so she would often say silly things like, ‘I loved that two page graphic novel you drew.’
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Graphic Novel is a bit of a misnomer. An adaptation of Moby Dick or Harry Potter in it’s entirety to comic form would be appropriate because of word count. The products on the shelves are actually graphic short stories.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:01 pm
It’s all ’sequential art’.
And these are neither graphic novels or comics - they’re webcomics. You have to go online to read them since they aren’t available in printed format from any store.
Anyway, I’m happy to see NBC continue the trend they set of producing new Heroes content when no new episodes are airing. The 4 part story ‘Wireless’ came out during the show’s last hiatus.
And hey - best of all it’s going to continuing being a FREE weekly comic.