Watching Heroes

Comic Book Resources has posted the second part of their three-part interview with Milo Ventimiglia. While he talked mostly about Heroes in the first part, the second focuses on his latest Divide Pictures project, the comic book, “Rest.”

“Rest” is the story of a white-collar New Yorker who becomes addicted to a drug that prevents him from falling asleep.

Here are a few key quotes:

How “Rest” happened: “It actually came out of the writer’s strike.  I had a great script from this writer named Michael Sullivan that needed a little work, but when the strike happened we couldn’t sit down and work on it so we pitched it out to a couple of comic book companies.”

Could “Rest” be developed into a movie: “I can see it in a number of different ways. I mean it could be a movie, it could be a digital series, it could be a TV show or it could just be a great comic. That’s the thing that I think myself and my partner (Russ Cundiff) are very much wanting to do, just make a good book. He knows how passionate I am about comics and graphic novels. That’s all we want to do, just make a really good book.”

About Comic Books: “I was a huge comic book fan when I was a kid. I went to a place called Fidonia Funnies in Orange County once a week with my Dad. It’s nice to be able to give back. I feel like I’m contributing to a bit of the world that raised me, in a sense.”

Is he afraid of typecasting?: “If they called me and said, do you want to play Spider-Man? Of course, I would.”  He added, “So I have no fear of jumping into it. Going from [‘Heroes’] to playing a superhero in anything else that I do. You know, it’s kind of cool. You want to be a superhero when you grow up.”

The first issue of Milo Ventimiglia’s “Rest” is on sale now from Devil’s Due Publishing.  Ventimiglia and his company have another book they’re producing with Top Cow called “Berserker,” which will be available in the first quarter of next year.

To read the complete interview, check out Comic Book Resources.