According to Robot 6, Jazan Wild, aka Jason Barnes, has filed a lawsuit against NBC and Tim Kring’s Tailwind Productions for copyright infringement over a storyline featured in superhero series, Heroes.

Barnes is seeking $60 million for claims that the “carnival of lost souls and outcasts” that appeared in the fourth season of the NBC drama is “virtually identical” to the one that appears in his comic series Jazan Wild’s Carnival of Souls.

"The main character in both stories leads a carnival of lost souls and outcasts,” the complaint states. “This dark character seeks to make his carnival more powerful by recruiting new members with special abilities… Even the dialogue is similar.”

This is not the first time Heroes has been criticised for infringing upon other creators’ works. In 2007, a judge dismissed a lawsuit by artists Amnau Karam Eele and Clifton Mallery, who claimed that Isaac Mendez, an artist who could paint the future, was stolen from a body of their work.

Heroes has also come under scrutiny for its similarities to storylines featured in Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men and DC’s Watchmen series, amongst others.