Jan

30

A Few Quick Notes Before Monday’s Season 4 Premier

Posted by Michael LaPenna

January 30, 2009 | Comments Off

So everyone in America and likely around the world knows that this Sunday is Superbowl Sunday: The most watched TV event every year with those dudes in the helmets and pads putting their hearts into every tackle and catch because they can and because we like it! But for Heroes fans, Monday is a day [...]

Jan

29

Take the Heroes quiz!

Posted by Michael LaPenna

January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Find out which of the heroes you’re most like!
Take the quiz.

Jan

28

The heroes are Back this Monday!

Posted by Michael LaPenna

January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment

YES! Finally, the new season of Heroes begins this Monday with the story getting more horrible and dystopic by the minute! Nathan is headed to Washington to weed out the evil elements by preying on the public’s national security fears and feeding off of his own insatiable urge for worldly power. He’ll round ‘em up [...]

Jan

22

Special Presentation: Elie Wiesel on the Concept of the Hero

Posted by Michael LaPenna

January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Photo by Fred Sway granted by Boston University
In my travels around the Net, I occasionally stumble onto gems not seen in the average Joe’s walk through the meandering wood that is YouTube or StumbleUpon or Larry’s laptop. But today I have found one such indispensable and incorruptible treasure. The following is an essay written by [...]

Jan

19

Going Postal offers Heroes’ quickest webisode series to date

Posted by Michael LaPenna

January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Now, I know how everybody loves the mail to be quick but… daaaaaaaang! Going Postal offers new insight into the term “post-haste” with three episodes of hunt, (”A Nifty Trick”) chase, (”The House Guest”) and capture (”Let’s Talk”) so fast and furious that they seen to appropriately embody main character the campily named Echo DeMille’s [...]

Jan

16

The Hilarious Zeroes Webseries Parody

Posted by Michael LaPenna

January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment

A couple of weeks ago, I theorized a handful of totally useless and certifiably insane powers like being able to babysit the baby Jesus and the wonderfully stupid ability to turn every meal into breakfast; and my personal favorite the ability to work on federal holidays. But the Heroes creators have apparently been up [...]

Jan

14

The Recruit: “The Truth Within”

Posted by Michael LaPenna

January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment

To watch before you read, go to http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/The-Recruit/
Summary
Mills has now been released and goes home to reveal that she hid the formula in and open wound in her shoulder. She then pulls it out and goes on her merry way only to find Angela outside he door to confront her deception and to snatch her [...]

Jan

11

Heroes’ graphic novel episodes 51-117 now online!

Posted by Michael LaPenna

January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment

In the grand tradition of growling, rabid 80s monster truck rally announcers, “Sunday, Sunday, Sunday” is your day to catch up on every twist, turn and power play as Primatech and Pinehurst’s favorite rejects have the chance to become tomorrow’s heroes in this graphic novel feast; and hey… try not to be a glutton, will [...]

Jan

10

Knox’s journey explored through latest microseries

Posted by Michael LaPenna

January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Knox was arguably one of the more uniquely gifted “heroes” of them all. A street thug who “got strong off of other people’s fear,” he was egotistical to say the least. Unfortunately he was killed during the whole Season Three Pinehurst debacle. But hanks to the magic of the webisode, his journey to power is [...]

Jan

9

The Recruit: “Do What You Have to Do” and “Day of Reckoning”

Posted by Michael LaPenna

January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment

To watch berfore you read go to http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/video/webisodes/the-recruit/#vid=883401
Summary
“Do What You Have to Do”
As uneventful as this three-minute blip was there was on saving grace. The viewer finds Mills back in the same interrogation room with Angela; and through Angela’s powers of coercion also that Mills had killed one of her fellow marines. She [...]

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