SHH!: We got a taster for Volume II at the end of the last season, so is Season 2 going to have a very different tone and are episodes going to focus more on single characters now that they've been introduced?
Kring: Well, no. We still have a huge cast to service, but the season is going to feel different definitely. One of the things about a show like "Heroes," it sort of lives or dies by its ability to defy expectations on a weekly basis and that's a big chunk of why people are watching it. They want to have that experience of "Oh, I didn't see that coming." In many ways, the second season has to fulfill those same expectations, so it can't just be a redo or replay of the first season. There are a few new themes that we're playing with. Volume II which will probably last until the middle of the season is called "Generations" and for those people who were watching closely, they've realized that there is this other generation of people, parents like the Petrellis' mother and Linderman and Richard Roundtree's character and George Takei, all those characters represented another generation of people who dealt with these same issues. Season 2 will deal with some of the legacy that they've left behind, some of the mess they've left behind for the next generation to fix, so there's a big thematic as far as that in the sins of the parents being visited on the childen.

SHH!: Will we see some of them, like Linderman, in flashback sequences so they'll still be around?
Kring: Um, there are going to be some clever ways that we will see some of them, yes. While that's one theme of the show, the other theme of this volume is…. Season 1 was about these ordinary people who become extraordinary and Season 2 or Volume 2 starts with these people trying to be ordinary again. Most of them, we pick back up in their lives with "How do you keep them down on the farm after they've had these amazing adventures?" That's one of the themes we're going to be playing with as well.

SHH!: I know you weren't really a comic book person before you started, so have you gotten more into comics? I was really impressed with the comic book downloads relating to the show.
Kring: They're unbelievable. They're the best graphic artists in the business have worked on them, literally the cream of the crop in terms of artists have participated this year, and we're compiling them into a hardback book at the end of the summer. It's going to be spectacular, but yeah, just by osmosis, I'm around it all the time. I'm looking at them. Usually, my interest in comic is really centered around the show, because that's all I have time for now, but I've now become a real fan of these various artists and Jeph has really educated me quite a bit about it. He's always pulling something up on his computer to show me somebody's artwork and to explain why it's better than this guy's and why it's cooler than this one. It's been a fun learning curve.

SHH!: Do you have a date for the season start yet?
Kring: Well, our official start date is September 24, but knowing the way things change, I think it's probably safe to say the end of September.