I love reading the Heroes Comic Books also known as Graphic Novels after watching each episode. The graphic novels fill in the blanks between the episodes and help you learn more about each character and their back story. They go a long way in explaining how characters feel and what is happening between the segments of the show and is all part of NBC’s interactive Heroes experience.
The latest Graphic Novel called Truths focuses on Arthur Petrelli the father of Nathan and Peter and husband to Angela. It focuses on some of his back story and opens up by explaining that Arthur was a man of many faces, his children knowing him as a lackey for criminals, his wife knowing him as a loving but stern father and goes who the man Arthur really was.
The comic opens up with Arthur standing there the bullet Peter fired suspended just before penetrating Arthur’s head. Arthur explains that he has died twice and both times The Haitian was present. Arthur reflects how he became the man he was and we flash back to a hunting trip many years ago when Nathan and Peter were little boys.
Before delving deeper into the hunting a scene shows Arthur and Angela in bed talking about Peter being too soft and not having enough strength, Angela claims that Peter will be great by the time he manifests while Arthur believes that Nathan should have been born with the power not Peter at all. He explains that the genetic markers seems to show up in the children that lack the will for action. Angela is the one who suggests that they inject Nathan with the serum, and that it is nothing more than a vaccination. They both figure why let both sons go to waste when they might be able to salvage one son.
Back at the camping trip memory Arthur tries to get Peter to pull the trigger and kill a deer, but Peter cannot. Nathan grabs the rifle and fires the gun as Peter protests. Meanwhile the gunshot goes off in the present and Arthur admits he is proud that Peter had the guts to pull the trigger now and prove him wrong about him. His last thoughts are that it is the best feeling in the world to be proven wrong and now he believes both his sons are strong enough to do what must be done.
My thoughts:
I think this graphic novel reveals that Arthur did care about his children to some degree and had his “idea” of who he wanted them to be and what he wanted them to become. He formulated opinions about his children and clearly when they didn’t fit what he wanted he thought less of them. Most villains don’t think they are villains, they just think that their way is right and other’s are wrong. Most evil people don’t call themselves evil, but think they are doing what is right and this is and was the case with Arthur Petrelli.
-Dragon Blogger
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