| Heroes Comic: The Man With Too (Much) Brains |
| Tuesday, 15 January 2008 | |
 Ugh. The title alone should give you a hint as to how bad the comic was this week. The Heroes Graphic Novel hits an all-new low this week as they introduce Matt Nuenberg, who's special ability is that he's really, really smart. That's it. No laser beam eyes, or super speed, or diamond-hard skin... just really smart. What really gets me is how incredibly original the issue is (sarcasm). Let's do the run-down, shall we? Matt Neunberg:  is a high school student who doesn't fit in feels alienated by his powers is discovered by the Company is betrayed by the Company.Gee... how astoundingly creative. Someone send that writing staff a fruit basket. The basic plot boils down to this: Matt is a nerd. Woe is him. Life is tough when you're smart. Boo frikkin' Hoo. The super-hot popular girl asks him to sign up for the talent show and he does it because it's not weird at all that lil' Miss Hotttie would seek out the schools biggest shut-in. His talent at the talent show is basically standing there while random people (teachers? people off the street?) ask him question after question. Obviously, he gets them all correct (including rattling off Pi to a dozen decimal places), and instead of people being amazed or applauding, they start yelling at him and calling him insulting names. Wow, tough crowd.  Wow, and you thought your teachers were harsh. Then she burns down the auditorium. I'm not kidding. One minute she's telling him she knows where he can fit in, the next minute she uses her powers to set the stage ablaze. Rampant arson and psychotic behavior aside, Matt still goes with her. Man, for someone who's supposed to be smart, he sure gets stupid real quick whenever there's a set of boobs around.  He definitely should have taken the blue pill. Of course, Elle promises him that she'll protect him. Apparently protecting him means standing nearby while a team of doctors and scientists experiment on him and torture him. Fun stuff. Later, Elle visits Matt in his room (cell), and brings him a cake. Yup, a friggin' cake. Real food would be nice, letting him go would be nice, not torturing him would be nice... but no. She brings him cake. Elle talks to him a while and plants one on his cheek, thus continuing her streak of hitting on every single human male locked up by the Company. I'm guessing that she doesn't get out to the clubs very often. So, other than the fact that this is yet another new character in an already bloated and unwieldy mythos, there's not much to take away from this week's comic other than "don't trust the Company" and "Elle needs a little lovin' like you wouldn't believe". I mean, c'mon. She's hitting on high school students now. Creeeeeeeepy! It's a "To Be Continued" so hopefully the next installment(s) add a little more meat to the storyline. Maybe Matt will stop chasing Elle's backside and outsmart his captors. Maybe he turns evil and is going to become a part of the rumored "evil team" in Heroes, Volume 3: Villains. Or maybe, like the entire last season, it's going to wander on and on and never really get anywhere. I guess we'll find out next week. You can download the PDF of this issue from the main Heroes site (www.nbc.com/Heroes/novels ) or read it online with their flash viewer HERE . Personally, I don't like either and prefer to read it in .cbr format using a freeware program called CDisplay (downloadable here ). WARNING:
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