ComicMix Radio: Heroes – Third Time’s A Charm?
NBC rolls the dice in a big way with a three hour relaunch of Heroes this Monday. After nine months away, and a weak second season as well, can they overcome it all? Milo Ventimiglia thinks so and in our exclusive interview, he explains it all, plus:
- The World’s Most Dangerous Milkman in a movie?
- Top Cow has the 2008 Pilot Season winners
- Comics newest Top Sellers analyzed
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Broadcast 262 ComicMates.com All eyes on NBC ComicMates 3-0 Hi, it's Mike Raub after 9 months away at the end of a very shaky season to begin with
Heroes returns with a 3 hour blockbuster in just a few days What's it gonna be like? Well, one cast member has some insight on it and he's feeling pretty good We'll let him share the joy on the way coming up on September 20th 2008 ComicMates U
You're gonna have to dig way back in the long boxes for this one But the next guy in line to hit the big screen might be Reed Fleming, the world's toughest milkman Originally published beginning in 1978 in the early 1980s, Reed Fleming was one of the more popular early independent comics And now it's fallen into the attention of Jonathan Demme The guy who did Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia and something wild
Now while the movie rights to Reed Fleming were purchased way back in the 1990s, nothing has happened The plans have just laid their dormant and Demme says he plans to change that sometime in the near future Top Cow has announced the winners of the 2008 pilot season campaign are Twilight Guardian by Troy Hickman and Genius by Mark Bernadine and Adam Freeman as well For a month now fans went to the Top Cow website, to the pilot season website or some other tie-in sites
to vote for their favorite 2008 pilot season one shots This will mean that these characters will get a series sometime in 2009 Cyblade and Velocity are the winners of last year's pilot season 2007 will have new series debut later this year from Top Cow Once the shelves have been cleared away of copies of Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk
Kung Fu Panda hits DVD and Blu-Ray coming up on Sunday November the 9th And it's going to be packaged with a new companion story called Secrets of the Furious 5 These two titles are being released together in what they're calling a Pandemonium Double Pack for right around 25 bucks and it marks the first time that DreamWorks has ever released a movie on DVD Blu-Ray with an all new adventure as well
The feature, Secrets of the Furious 5 goes into the backstories of the Kung Fu Panda characters and features a lot of the same voices as the regular movie For just under a decade one of the things that I've always looked forward to during the holiday season was Paul Dini's regular Jingle Bell one shots Now we're going to get an early Christmas present with a Halloween slash Christmas one shot
written by Dini and drawn by Stephanie Gladden Santa has triumphed over a number of enemies including the devil himself in the past Now though he's facing his greatest challenge in Jingle Bell, Santa Claus versus Frankenstein Look for the one shot to be in comic stores sometime during the next month Alright here's your water cooler story for the weekend
Take this along to tell your friends that Fox is developing a new law themed 60 minute dramedy Nothing big news there However the pilot is based on the fairy tale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs It's called Georgia and the Seven Associates and it's set in Los Angeles with a young female lawyer who's fired from a top law firm by her stepmother
and then sets up a shop with seven zany lawyers in a storefront legal office They're going to carry the fairy tale theme even further as most of her associates will have the characteristics similar to the Seven Dwarfs and their cases will incorporate other fairy tales like the Three Little Pigs and others Look for Ken Kwapas who's been involved with the office to direct the pilot, no air date yet Hi I'm Summer Blair and you're listening to ComicMix
The Big Money Report card is in from the comic book stores with a list of the top 20 graphic novels and comics that you walked out with last month And some real interesting additions here starting with the graphic novels at number 20 the Donald Duck family It is a collection by Gemstone and runs fairly inexpensively about $8.99 Some beautiful stories in there
Here's another surprise Terry Morris Echo the first collection in trade paperback called Moo Lake and Walt Disney's vacation parade number five again another Gemstone collection Falls at number 18 At number 17 the X-Men trade paperback collecting Divided We Stand at number 16 It's been a while since we've seen one of the DC showcase volumes on here
This time it was the first volume to collect the House of Secrets Could be the reason why DC is rushing back to do a third House of Mystery volume coming in December from them At number 15 the X-Men trade paperback volume 3 in the complete onslaught epic At number 14 the Wolverine trade paperback get mystique At number 13 Star Wars Dark Times the second volume in the Parallels trade paperback series
At number 12 again Walt Disney Comics and Stories this is number 692 Again more trade paperback than comics from Gemstone At number 11 another issue Walt Disney Comics and Stories is number 693 At number 10 the Spider-Man trade paperback collecting One More Day that's been a big seller for a while At number 9 the first trade paperback collection of the Mighty Avengers from Marvel
At number 8 Dark Knight Returns trade paperback from DC featuring Batman of course At number 7 the World of Warcraft hardcover the first volume in that run At number 6 All Star Superman we called it the best bet this week You can find out why in the first volume of the trade paperback collection that is at number 6 Number 5 also from DC Vertigo DMZ the trade paperback collection Hidden War
It is the fifth DMZ trade paperback At number 4 the All of us Spider-Man trade paperback volume 20 this one called his amazing friends Number 3 been here for a while Batman Killing Joke the redone special edition hardcover from DC Number 2 best selling graphic novel in August the Star Wars force unleashed graphic novel And no surprise here number 1 again gonna be here for a while I bet
Watchmen trade paperback the best selling graphic novel in August in comic stores Alright what about the comics let's see what happens here Well one surprise which is actually off the top 20 but certainly worth noting Our friends at IDW deserve congratulations they are now the number 4 best selling publisher in comic stores And that is no easy feat congratulations again to them
At number 20 on the list Final Crisis Legion of 3 worlds number 1 from DC number 19 Ultimate Origins number 3 number 18 best selling comic in August was X-Force the divided we stand issue number 6 from Marvel At number 17 Avengers invaders number 4 Batman RIP falls on the list at this time with the detective comics tie in issue number 847 At number 16 at number 15 Justice Society of America number 18 from DC number 14 Amazing Spider-Man number 569 At number 13 Buffy the Vampire Slayer from Dark Horse issue 17 Justice League of America number 24 falls into number 12
And number 11 best selling comic in August Captain America number 41 from Marvel Into the top 10 for X-Men number 501 that's at number 10 this week At number 9 Wolverine number 68 from Marvel at number 8 Mighty Avengers number 17 And the first of the secret invasion tie-ins on the list this month At number 7 Amazing Spider-Man number 568 at number 6 Stylishing X-Men number 26
Number 5 best selling comic at August Hulk number 5 from Marvel Batman RIP continues on a high note here with Batman number 679 Which is the fourth best-selling book of the month At number 3 New Avengers number 44 that was a secret invasion tie-in And the top two begin with Final Crisis number 3 at number 2 And the number 1 best-selling comic at August goes again to Marvel secret invasion number 5
Comic-Nax Radio Coming back for the third season of any television series not an easy task Imagine what it's like though for a series that was at least somewhat of a pop culture phenomenon cut off By the writers strike in the middle of a time when a lot of people felt that the stories were bogged down with being a little over written That's heroes and producer Tim Kring says that one of his goals of this third season after coming back being gone for nine months
Was not to drag a lot of story behind them and to make people feel they really didn't have to watch two years of the show to catch up Now you will have a chance to catch up a little bit NBC's devoted next Monday night entirely to heroes There's a one-hour catch-up hour that begins at 8 o'clock And then a nine a two-hour premiere of the beginning of the third season
Lots of changes on the way for example from the inside Kristen Bell who plays Elle Bishop on the series said her character alone will be undergoing a lot of development during the season And reveal some unknown connections to other characters Bell said she's in for 13 episodes this year But what about the main stars the people that have kept the story going for the previous two seasons
Beginning with Milo Ventimiglia Peter Petrelli Milo recalls last spring when the strike ended and the script started coming in and everything seemed to be falling into place But I think everybody just wants to get back to that that feeling of the show that first season of that kind of excitement that we all had you know working on it And I tell you what I read I read the first the first episode that Tim Kring wrote and I just I called him at 11 o'clock at night I didn't care what time it was Mike Timmies this is unbelievable man it gave me the chills getting back to that first time I read the pilot script and you know through that first season
That's a pretty good compliment from a guy who is generally at the center of all the action on the series After all he's the guy with all the powers although for Milo it really didn't start out that way It's oddly enough when I had no idea after I even filmed the pilot We did the pilot all I knew was the kid thinks he can fly he jumps off he can't oops And then it wasn't until the up fronts which are the big announcements for TV that Tim Kring said so I got Peter figured out
He's like Neo in the Matrix he does everything he's like this ultimate badass And I'm like I can handle that I can do that The first story arc is called Villains and that doesn't necessarily mean we're going to meet a lot of new bad guys although we will What about some changes that are involved with the main characters like Peter Petrella? I think you're going to see Peter behaving not quite like himself
I think you're going to come to understand the darker parts that are inside all of us And I think ultimately you know this This this larger story that Peter is only a cog in as well as any other character You know we're all pieces of the puzzle of life and how our characters have come together is a mystery And I think we're just looking to tell like another epic saga
There's a lot resting on this third season of Heroes and a lot resting on the main actors of the show that's for sure Milo's ready to handle the challenge though and one of the things that I've always been impressed with And I had to tell him was how he really looks like a superhero with all the right moves Dude nobody thinks about that you have to do that and you got to get the face and when you're shooting electricity It's like you can't just turn around and go
It's like you got I mean you got a feel it's got to come out of you and I don't know I get excited about things like that you know because yeah I read comics when I was a kid And you have to you have to really physicalize all that all those powers in some way And I'm picking up these powers from other actors you know so they give their first performance of it And you know my performance is just kind of an homage whatever they're doing like Greg Grundberg in his kind of head tilts
And Adrienne when he's flying or Hayden when she's like healing herself or Massey when he's you know doing all that Some kind of like paying homage to what they're doing Comic-pitched radio Comic-next timeline September 20th
1965 It was a calm before the Batman storm this week and DC was trying to keep their head above water by making a few editorial changes That sacrificed Adam Strange in mystery and space and this week in number 103 in the spinner rack we got ultra the multi alien Also there was Lois Lane number 61 where she was the reptile girl of the tropics third issue of metamorpho this week our fighting forces number 96 for the war fans Where but her time master was chugging along toward the end here at the booth issue number 29
There was sea devils 26 and showcase number 59 which featured the second teen titans From Marvel it was journey into mystery number 122 with Thor double feature over in strange tales with Steve Ditko on dr. Strange and Jack Kirby this time on Nick Fury agent of shield Delsa suspense number 72 had Captain America and Iron Man and tails to astonish 74 and Submariner and the Hulk ACG had another issue of forbidden worlds with magic man that was issue number 132 this week And from Archie we got flyman number 34 and the first issue of mighty crusaders 1965 in the news US paratroopers killed 155 Viet Cong in a bloody fight that took place early in the week
The Indian Prime Minister said that the Chinese government was firing across his borders and what he feels is an attempt to dominate his country And slight progress was announced in the five day old New York City newspaper strike in the movies Patty Duke made the leap from small screen to big in Billy There was Shannon Doha Jane fondant cat Baloo sandpiper Gary Grant and once a thief and a big attempt to capture the young market with a movie based on Jerry and the pacemakers Produced by Brian Epstein and named after their hit song carry across the mercy TV tonight with episodes of 12 o'clock high dr. Kildare run for your life There was an Andy Williams special and another episode of hullabaloo this time featuring comedian Jerry Lewis and his son Gary performing a version of help together and then thankfully Gary singing on his own
On the radio a British music act that swept in as part of the invasion but with a wild musical act that gave them their name Unlike a lot of the other happy-go-lucky British groups these guys centered on gritty rhythm and blues the animals and To stop me if you've heard this before but we got a big week coming up providing the printing problems and the publishers do their job we'll have a list of new comics for you to share when we get back here and then we start our progress toward Baltimore Comic Con where we will be broadcasting direct next weekend from the floor of the show exclusively right here there's a lot more in the meantime to including some great free comics on ComicMix you know how that works of course stuff like Black Ice White Piper and Hammer Of The Gods all free for you We'll also tell you more about those exclusive ComicMix graphic novels that are premier on the floor of the Baltimore Comic Con and if you don't want to miss any of this well first subscribe to us on iTunes and next make sure that we get in touch with you direct from ComicMix via Twitter, Myspace and Facebook. Talk to you after the weekend. Bye!
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