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[lauralh]

After watching the first 16 episodes of Heroes, Reg made me read Rising Stars to see where they got the idea. It's by the guy who did Babylon 5 (which I've never seen due to an extreme prejudice against the people I knew in college who were crazy about it, but I liked his other comics) and it's a bit more focused. 3-issues of trade paperback (i guess it went to 27) and the heroes were all the same age, in utero around the time this comet hit their small town or something.

Anyway it was entertaining enough, and nice to see where Heroes kind of came from, although in all honesty I think it'll be way better. So far so good, I mean.

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[danguyf.livejournal.com]

Tim K., the creator of Heroes, has claimed that he never read Rising Stars. He says after the show was in production someone pointed out the large number of similarities so he went to the comic shop to check them out, but after reading the back cover of the first one he put it down and walked away knowing that to ever read them would open him up to a lawsuit because it sounded like the exact same concept.

Or so he claims.

I think he may have tried to steer the show away from that cover blurb since then.