More of Heroes

As I commented in this first post about Heroes, I’ve followed this TV show from the first episode and I can’t stop recommending it to whoever hasn’t seen it (every day are less). I see that this week episode named “Five Years Gone” looks like one of the best of this first season.

I haven’t seen the episode yet, (hoping to see it this weekend), but reading the different fan sites about this show I found some illustrations from Ratscape a fan of this show (I guess) which fully capture the essence of the characters, in his gallery you can find illustrations of Hiro, Sylar, Claire, Peter, Nikki y Nathan. Here I’m just going to show a couple, but is worth to see the full gallery with his other works.

Nathan Petrelli

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Darth Vader in the sky

Vader in the sky

The imagination of Star Wars fans has no limits. To promote a fans association/event one of the members got the idea to create a balloon with the shape of the head of one of the most recognizable movie villains.

After getting authorization from Lucasfilm, they start working and 8 weeks later the balloon was ready. The size is 26 meters tall, 21 meters in the widest part and a depth of 24 meters. It can contain about 3000 cubic meters of air and the weight is 320 kg.

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