Millar Gough Ink

Background
Millar Gough Ink is an American film and television production company best known from producing the long-running Superman prequel television series Smallville and the Netflix Tim Burton's The Addams Family spin off series Wednesday. It was founded in an unknown year by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough.

1st Logo (October 12, 1999-November 10, 2011)
Logo: In an office setting, we see a bottle filled with orange red ink. A black label covers the bottom half, containing the company name in Impact,, and a stacked format. "INK" has a bottom white gradient. A split-second before the logo ends, a hammer (which can be seen coming down in the bottle's reflection if the viewer looks very closely) swings down and smashes the bottle, causing the ink to spread everywhere, including covering up the whole screen.

Variant: The logo exists in both a fullscreen and widescreen format.

Technique: Live-action.

Music/Sounds: It varies, but they usually end with a glass breaking sound.


 * 1999-2000: After the ending theme of the show, the splattering sound is heard.
 * 2001-2002: None.
 * 2001-2002 (Smallville episodes "X-Ray" and "Hug"): Entirely silent.
 * February-May 2002: An odd, three-note piano tune with an eerie sound effect. This was composed by Mark Snow.
 * 2002-2011: A reverberating cartoon ditty. This was again composed by Mark Snow using a synthesizer and some orchestral instruments (possibly spoofing music occasionally from a scene of Wile E. Coyote falling).

Music/Sounds Variant: Original airings use a generic theme and a voice over. Occasionally, it's entirely silent.

Availability: Common. First seen on The Strip and was later seen on Smallville, the 2006 TV pilot of Aquaman and the 2011 reboot of Charlie's Angels.

2nd Logo (November 15, 2015-)
Logo: On a black background, we see the stacked words "MILLAR GOUGH". To the right is a beaker with a big black water-drop in it. Inside the water-drop is "INK".

Technique: None.

Music/Sounds: None, or the ending theme of the show.

Availability: Seen on Into the Badlands, The Shannara Chronicles and Wednesday. It's expected to appear on season 2 of Wednesday.