So is there no one who can tell me whether the online comics are included in the special features?
Otto, I’ve looked at a couple of sources online and can’t find a reference to them being on the DVD. I don’t have the set yet so I can’t verify it with my own eyes, but I’m not seeing it listed anywhere.
We checked the fine print on the Target ad - the mini paintings are only if you spring for the ultra-deluxe (extra money) edition. Best Buy’s giving a comic book. Circuit City’s giving something and $5 off a t-shirt on NBC.com (which doesn’t even cover the shipping).
We’ll be buying the discs tomorrow - we loved the show, and I love watching most of a season of a show when I have a snow day.
Yeah, I know.
So, that means that all comic artists everywhere are interchangeable with Roy Lichtenstein? I don’t think so.
In other words (missed window), I know Roy Lichtenstein*, and Tim Sale is no Roy Lichtenstein.
*–'s work
Well no, it doesn’t mean that all comics artists everywhere are interchangeable with RL. But see, that wasn’t what was suggested. What was suggested was that paintings that look like “comic book panels” selling in galleries “strained credulity beyond the breaking point.” Since at least one painter acheived great financial and critical success with paintings that look like comic book panels, the idea that such an artist should inspire incredulity is odd.
I thought that was all part of the comicbokkishness of it.
I was specifically talking about *those *“paintings.” Your generalization was your own assumption.
Surely, after all the multi-page threads on painting we’ve participated in, you don’t think I’m ignorant of Lichtenstein? Surely that would’ve been a clue that your assumption was unfounded?
Yes, I got it. It got old.
I’ve only caught a few episodes, but I think it’s quite well done. I couldn’t help thinking ‘this is just X-Men’ every now and again though.
Something I’ve never seen anyone mention, but which I’ve liked from the first episode, is how the subtitles for Hiro and Ando were always positioned and arranged like comic book speech balloons.
Whatever.
I’ve never participated in a multi-page thread on painting, with you or anyone else. And stop calling me Shirley.
For those curious on the unaired pilot it is a dramatically different re-edit of the first two episodes. The show would have been completely different if they used it. Just to run through some of the major differences:
[spoiler]
The nuclear man Ted has been replaced by a Pakistani terrorist who was going to be used to make weapons grade plutonium.
The telepathic cop’s storyline is moved up to the first episode. He locates a hiding terrorist by hearing the arabic thoughts. Also instead of being a detective he wanted to be SWAT and in exchange for using his powers to locate the cell he joined in a raid.
One of the episode’s cliffhangers is Sylar confronting Mohander.
Micah runs away from his babysitter to break his father out of prison.
The artist tried to break his heroin addiction by handcuffing himself away from it. Then he cut his own left hand off.
No big differences that I saw with Claire, the Petrelli brothers, or Hiro.[/spoiler]
For those interested, the “In-Sink-Erator” branding has been removed. The scene is otherwise the same.
I remember when the preair pilot was leaked at this time last year, and some people had seen the “original” pilot, and there was a lot of confusion. Especially in regard to the Greg Grunberg character. Nice to see it all resolved.
Wow, that really does seem to reinforce Tim Kring’s “let’s kill off a bunch of characters all the time and everyone will love it!” idea.
Thank god they didn’t actually go with that edit.