Heroeswatch: Creature of Light, Creature of Darkness

James,

I don't know about Carnivale but that grave scene was pure comic book imagery. So was the sock drawer of introduction but this is a show about 'superheroes' and the wacky camera angles they get themselves into.

What struck me as VERY comic bookish was the meeting of the anti-HRG Heroes in the cemetary, right down to the spooky! dramatic! lighting. I could just see Jeph Loeb painting that whole scene out in a duo-tone of blue and purple.

As for Simone, I'm kind of glad she died. She had Gwen Stacey (Spiderman's first girlfriend/lost love) written all over her. I do like how the writers used her to drive a wedge between Hunky Painter Guy and the Exploding Nurse. The writers have done (IMO your Emminence) a good job of building Peter up as the Cyclops-goody-two-shoes-uber-boy-scout of the Heroes and now he'll have to deal with the fact that he's not only responsible for possibly leveling Manhatten but getting his proto-girlfriend killed.

Enjoy your vacation!

Heroes does draw tremendously on comic books. Much of it is fairly subtle, so it's something that a non-comic reader/afficiando would really catch, but it is there.

(I actually disturbed my roommate because I was actually screaming at the television during the scene were future-Hiro meets current-Peter on the train. I was screaming something along the lines of 'DAYS OF FUTURE PAST! DAYS OF FUTURE PAST!')

Its too bad the painter didn't paint Simone's death in order to avoid it occuring. Her death was a contrived tragedy. Peter couldn't do anything to prevent her from being shot? He seems like a goody two shoes but his temper and forced plot devicing is kinda annoying.