What started out with a bang, NBC’s breakout hit Heroes, is hoping to avoid going out with a whimper.  After a first season that grabbed the attention of comic book fans and those not into the medium, the show suffered declining ratings, up and down plot points, and an entire season that left fans perplexed and, according to many message boards, disappointed.  While the show did employ many standards of the comic book industry, dead characters who came back to life, sprawling storylines and super-powered adventures, the high cost of producing the show, along with other problems, has prompted NBC to not renew the hour-long drama for a fifth season. read more….

The dead shall rise on AMC!  According to reports, the cable network has greenlit an adaptation of the very popular Robert Kirkman series published by Image Comics.  The story, coming up on its 70th issue, centers around a small band of survivors, living in a world where the dead have risen, turning them into flesh-eating zombies.  The series follows the group in their efforts to live, survive and make sense of the world they are in. read more….