Heroes at Comic-Con

The presence of NBC's Heroes at the annual San Diego Comic-Con International was a smash hit.

From HollywoodReporter.com:

SAN DIEGO -- Thanks to NBC's "Heroes" presentation, the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con International, which took place this weekend, will be remembered as the Con at which TV shows eclipsed feature films.

The "Heroes" panel, which started at 12:45 p.m. Saturday and was held in the Convention Center's second-biggest room, holding about 4,000 people, hit maximum capacity almost as soon as the doors opened at 10 a.m. Fans arrived early and sat through two other presentations -- for NBC's "Bionic Woman" and a TV Guide panel on TV heroes -- just to hear the "Heroes" creators and to offer their love to the cast. Even Danny Bonaduce stood in line to ask a question. Thousands more waited in line for hours in case, by chance, some room opened up.

When it was announced that Kevin Smith would direct the first episode of spinoff show "Heroes: Origins," an already electric room amped off the charts.

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