In a promotional tie-in with
Sprint,
Smallville Legends: The Oliver Queen Chronicles was released. The six-episode
CGI series chronicles the early life of
Oliver Queen. According to Lisa Gregorian, Executive Vice President of worldwide marketing at
Warner Bros. Television Group, these promotional tie-ins were ways to get fans more connected to the series. In April 2007, a tie-in with
Toyota promoting their new
Yaris featured an online comic strip as
interstitial programs during new episodes of
Smallville, titled
Smallville Legends: Justice & Doom. The interactive comic was based on the episode "Justice", which follows the adventures of Oliver,
Bart Allen,
Victor Stone, and
Arthur Curry—the initial members of the
"Justice League" in
Smallville—as they seek to destroy all of
LuthorCorp's secret experimental labs. The online series allowed viewers to investigate alongside the fictional team, in an effort to win prizes. Stephan Nilson wrote all five of the episodes while working with a team of artists on the illustrations. The plot for each comic episode was given to Nilson as the production crew for
Smallville was filming their current television episode. Artist
Steve Scott drew comic book panels, which were then sent to a group called Motherland. That group reviewed the drawings and told Scott which images to draw on a separate overlay. This allowed for multiple objects to be moved in and out of the same frame. ==Awards==