Big enough umbrella - Creator of "Heroes" says show driven by characters, not powers

Matthew L. Price is an entertainment writer for a major Oklahoma newspaper. He also owns the Eisner-Award-nominated Speeding Bullet Comics with his wife, Annette.

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Creator of "Heroes" says show driven by characters, not powers

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Kring said his 22-year background in television gave him training in character development and allowed him to approach a superpowers show from a different perspective.

“I chose to approach this material almost entirely from the idea of who these characters were,” Kring said. “I created the powers to reflect who the characters were, and not the other way around.

“So, I didn’t start off by saying I want a guy who can teleport. I started off by saying I wanted a guy who felt trapped in a life that was not his dream and what could be a power that would be most wish-fulfilling for that character? And that was the ability to teleport out of that life. So, that’s how I sort of approached it.”