SaveJourneyman.net did a recent interview with cartoonist Darrin Bell, who is himself a fan of the NBC show “Journeyman.”

Bell is the creator of the popular strip titled Candorville. Be looking for the interview sometime soon on the SaveJourneyman.net website. Until it gets posted here is one of the more interesting responses from Bell that came after being asked the following question:

What makes Journeyman particularly worthy of being saved?

Darrin Bell: There aren’t many shows that make me feel the writers respect our intelligence. As I said, they show the characters operating at maximum capacity. Contrivances don’t work on this show, and that’s a good thing. They’d unravel immediately, because none of the characters are stupid. None of the characters commit stereotypical mistakes: Zack hasn’t spouted off at school about his dad traveling through time, Katie hasn’t broken under the strain or gone along without a worry, as a stereotypical TV wife might, Dan doesn’t blunder in over his head without thinking, which would require a series of contrivances to save him, etc. These people are as smart and as three dimensional as the viewers, and it’s not often you get a show that can say that.

Bell is absolutely correct about this. The realness of these characters as they tackle an extraordinary, almost unreal situation almost daily in their lives, and the way they were written and acted is what made the show such a pleasure to watch.

Go to SaveJourneyman.net and keep an eye out for this interview with Darrin Bell.