2001 TV News Archives

Entertainment Weekly cover

November 19, 2001: "Smallville" Featured in Entertainment Weekly

The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine features Tom Welling (Clark Kent) on the cover, with an interior article titled "The Freshman Five". The article takes a look at EW's top 5 new TV shows, which "Smallville" takes the number 1 spot in. Here's an excerpt from that article:

Show of Strength

Superboy was always a dumb idea. In fact, when Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created the Man of Steel in 1938, there was no Boy of Steel, no Smallville, no teenage adventures in tights. Kal-el, last son of Krypton, crash-landed on Earth, was discovered by the elderly Kents, and then smash-cut to adulthood and the whole superhero thing. But in 1945, DC Comics thought it would be neat to see Superman as a kid, and before long, Clark Kent was sporting spandex as early as age 7 and incurring the enmity of Lex Luthor by accidentally causing his hair to fall out (quite possibly the stupidest archenemy motivation in the history of stupid archenemy motivations). Dude, Superboy even had a super-powered dog named Krypto, which he dressed up in a friggin' little red cape!

Read more of the article at the EW website.



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