Heroes and Southland Tales Comics

With many films finding source material in graphic novels, many are finding that comics are a great medium to expand the universe of an existing story. Bearing that in mind, there are a couple of cool graphic novels coming out this fall.

First up is Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga, a collection of all three of the prequel comics originally released earlier this year. The combined version will be available in late October.

Also hitting shelves is a hardcover of the collected Heroes comics that previously were only available online. Over the course of the first season, the comics were released online where they helped bridge the gaps between episodes. This collected edition will hit shelves November 7th, with two different covers, one by Alex Ross and one by Jim Lee:

Source: IGN, Slashfilm

Buffy Comic and Spin-Off News

Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been enjoying an eighth season in comic book form for some time now. I’ve really been meaning to check it out, but I’ve been stuck somewhere in the limbo of the seventh season for some time now.

However, now one of the most beloved Buffy characters is making a return in this the new season. Check out Faith in a page from the new comic over at TV Guide.

In related news, the Buffy spin-off, Ripper starring Anthony Stewart Head, is about to begin production, with shooting scheduled to take place next summer.

Source: JoBlo, Dark Horizons

Southland Tales This November!

Writer/Director Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) finished the first cut of his sophomore effort, Southland Tales, quite a while ago. He even screened it at Cannes. It did not get a good reception.

After recutting the movie, he’d been shopping it around for distribution and we began to wonder if we’d ever get to see this sucker in theatres.

November 9th that question will finally be answered with a resounding “Yes.” That’s when Southland Tales hits theatres. Officially.

Here’s the synopsis courtesy of the IMDb:

Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) is an action star who’s stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner (Seann William Scott), a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

For those that don’t know, Kelly released a series of three graphic novels to serve as a prequel to the film. You can purchase them online:

I: Two Roads Diverge

II: Fingerprints

III: The Mechanicals

Source: JoBlo