The plan had always been to follow The Ultimates with an X-Men relaunch where I would write the three main X-books and we were going to have Hitchy plus two other artists on these books for a year. I plotted my stories way back in 2004 so this is something we'd been planning for ages. We were very enthused, spoke about it on the phone almost every day and just kind of took it for granted this is what we were launching in January 2008. But last year someone casually mentioned that JMS was leaving Fantastic Four and they didn't have a new creative team in place. I tried to block it out of my head, but for the rest of the call I was just nodding and pretending to be listening, thinking how great it would be to write the real Fantastic Four book. This is like getting the keys to the family car as far as the Marvel Universe is concerned. Maybe even more than Spider-Man.

I know these guys are pretty hot stuff in the comic world. But i haven't read a lot of there stuff but there Ultimates run was pretty cool. Which reminds me to get some of their stuff when I'm down at Kino's. Hot Sauce

I have to say I'm a huge fan of the Ultimates series when Millar and Hitch were doing it - it was simply described as wide screen comics!!!! which is so true as no-one not even Jim Lee himself can draw comics that you swear your watching a movie... alas Joe Mads version looks very actiony Loebs alley as per superman/batman books...still cant wait to see what mad has been up to these past 2 years since announcing they were taking over for Ultimates 3.

Side note look out for Ultimates 4 with Ed McGuiness in the near future...

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Heroes online comics are soon to be published as a graphic novel by DC. I haven't read all the Heroes comics but i'll probably be picking these up. Also it's coming out in fall roughly the same time the DVD season 1 boxset is coming out so I wouldn't be surprised if there's going to be some special DVD boxset packaging.

We are very excited to be releasing the compilation of “Heroes” comics through DC Comics," said series creator-executive producer Tim Kring in a subsequent press release. "Until now, most of these stories have only been available on NBC.com. To have this first printing coming from DC, the premier publisher of comic books, is a dream come true. - Source

What is also exciting is that Alex Ross/Jim Lee are going to be doing all new covers for the graphic novel... Yippie!