Writers Strike and the fate of the ‘Heroes’ graphic novel

New blog post posting an interesting question on the HeroesARG Social network.

As of this morning, The Writer’s Guild of America, is outside picketing the major TV and film studios on both coasts. “… the strike is expected to last for weeks rather than days, and possibly months.”

My question is, what does this mean for the graphic novels? They’re written side-by-side with the Heroes show writers. Does this mean no more GN’s after they run out? Or, will they keep running every week? Will the quality of storyline go down?

Update: Jason Badower explains what’s happening with the GN’s:

I have been contacted by some of you asking how the writer’s strike in Hollywood is going to affect the HEROES graphic novels. Apparently they have up to episodes 11 and 12 in the can. But as most of you know, the graphic novels are created on a much tighter time frame. So how does the strike affect your HEROES graphic novel?

Funny you should ask.

I was recently contacted, by my editor, Frank about doing a HEROES story. The script by Chuck (0.07%) Kim came through. It’s called “The Ten Brides of Takezo Kensei” and it’s a ripper of a story.

Unfortunately, due to the strike, Chuck asked that the script be pulled. Apparently he also had a specific artist friend of his in mind to draw it. That’s a huge shame as I would have knocked this one out of the park. This one is so up my alley it’s not funny. So when you do see it, you can try to imagine if I’d drawn/painted it.

But to answer your question, this script is set after the events of episode 11 (it specifically says so). So they’ve pulled the web comic episode that’s set after the week of episode 11. I have no idea if the stories before it have been pulled. But now you know that is your thin red line as far as the HEROES graphic novels go.

For those of you angry at how this affects you, consider these hard working writers who are asking to be included in the 21st century as far as financial credit goes. They’re asking for compensation for internet and mobile phone sales of their work (currently there is little or none) and an increase from 4c per dvd sold. I don’t think they’re being unreasonable and I support them 100%. I just hope the networks and the writers can reach some sort of agreement soon.