FUN STUFF

What's with the hate for the art department, you may ask?

First off, let me explain... A television series art department is the talent group of psychos who bring the world of Smallville alive. They create all the signs that adorn the storefronts of Cloverdale and Merritt British Columbia and transform it into the fiction town of Smallville, Kansas, and produce the copies of the Torch, Daily Planet, and Metropolis Inquisitor that the characters read, or web sites they load up on their computers.

They're graphics freaks, just like you and me. And frankly, they entertain the heck out of me.

However, sometimes they drop the ball...

The Business Section of the Metropolis Journal, featuring Carrie Castle's piece on Lex Luthor, which Roger Nixon brandished in Obscura uses one of the ubiquitous Smallville publicity stills of actor Michael Rosenbaum as Lex. Lazy, lazy art department! No biscuit...
Metropolis is three hours outside of Smallville. No, really. Even if Chandler's field is an hour or two outside of Smallville, what Clark and Lana should have seen were lights on the horizon in the distance, not...
The special edition of the Smallville Ledger put out when Lionel Luthor closes the plant in Tempest contains one rather cringe-worthy typo that somehow slipped past every person involved with the proeudction, and made it to air. Art dept. problems were cited...