I am – Hercules!!

Tuesday brings the highly anticipated release of “Heroes” on DVD, with its huge collection of deleted scenes and commentaries and the show’s original supersized pilot. (Look for more on these in tomorrow’s HercVault.)

In celebration, Wizard Magazine has produced its own episode-by-episode “season one commentary” assembling new interviews with the series’ writers and cast.

A few highlights (BEWARE SPOILERS):

* “The eclipse is one of those secrets that we’ll hold onto,” writer-producer Jesse Alexander tells Wizard. “I wouldn’t be surprised if Season 2 started with an eclipse. There’s a scientific and spiritual significance for the eclipse to the specific ‘Heroes’ storyline.”

* While artist Tim Sale usually created Isaac’s prophetic paintings from screen-shots of already completed scenes, this was apparently not the case with the early painting depicting Claire’s first confrontation with Sylar. “I remember having to hit the perfect turn for this pose that [Tim Sale] had me in, which was not the most comfortable thing,” confesses Hayden Panetierre.

* Jessica was apparently not always Niki’s dead sister, explains writer-producer Aron Eli Coleite.

* Kring knew from the beginning that Claire was Peter’s niece, and was a little creeped out that some saw the duo as a potential romantic pairing. “Just internally here, there were a lot of people who were like, ‘We’ve got to get them together.’”

* “I would pay some attention to [moppet mutant-finder] Molly Walker and what she represents as an important clue as to where [Season 2] is going,” Kring tells Wizard. “That’ll be revealed pretty much in the season opener, but this idea that Molly Walker and Suresh’s [Sendhil Ramamurthy] sister had similar ailments is a key part of where this story is going in the second season."

* Writer Jeph Loeb says the unseen supervillain -- the one Molly says is worse than Sylar -- "will be dealt with right in the first episode of Season 2."

Find all of Kiel Phegley’s engrossing Wizard piece here.

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