It looks like Heroes is going to wrap up the season 1 storyline in the next few episodes with season 2 to be a completely new story with new characters.

Tim Kring, creator of NBC’s hit series Heroes, told SCI FI Wire that the upcoming second season will constitute a new volume in the multi-volume series, with new characters and an entirely new storyline. “If you remember, the opening of the pilot pronounced the episode as the beginning of Volume One,” Kring said in an interview. “Volume One comes to a conclusion at the end of episode 23, and Volume Two starts with the opening of season two. And Volume Two is a different story.” Kring added: “We could have new people and new storylines and new ideas and new threats and new bad guys and new heroes. So I would prepare the audience for that idea, that it’s not just a continuing serialized storyline about only these people. It’s a little more the 24 model than the Lost model.”

This is very exciting news. From the first episode Heroes has been an amazing series with great characters and solid writing. The quality of the stories ranks up there with the early X-Files, yet it flows like a good graphic novel.

Hopefully the new characters and storyline will be as strong as this first season. There have been too many good shows (Prison Break) that changed up the formula between seasons and ultimately jumped the shark. Luckily they have a lot of options with the mutant concept.