It was announced today that the new CW television show Arrow, based on Green Arrow from DC Comics, will have a comic book of its own. Revealed over at CBR, showrunners Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg will be writing the series, which will release weekly in digital-first installments that retail for 99 cents on the DC Comics app and then be collected in print issues later.
The series will debut on October 10, the same day that the pilot airs on CW, and will be drawn by legendary Green Arrow artist Mike Grell. Subsequent chapters will be drawn by Sergio Sandoval and Jorge Jimenez. The series will start print releases on November 28 that will release for $3.99.
Back at San Diego Comic-Con, DC offered a freebie comic book tie-in to Arrow that was co-written by the showrunners and Geoff Johns. Guggenheim told CBR, "It was a little while after the free comic we co-wrote with Geoff Johns for San Diego Comic-Con [when DC approached us]. We loved the idea because (a) we love comics and (b) we sensed the opportunity to do something that struck us both as unprecedented. We come up with a lot of stories in the writers room, but only have 42 minutes each week to tell them. That leaves a lot of story and backstory left over that we like having the opportunity to tell. To our knowledge, nothing's ever been attempted on a scale like this before."
He added, "We have a real -- and exciting -- opportunity to tie in, fill in and -- and this is our favorite -- tease upcoming moments in the series. If you read the digital comics, you'll be getting stories that not only tie in with the television narrative, but also preview it."
DC recently launched Smallville: Season 11 as a digital-first comic to much success, so hopefully Arrow can be a repeat performance.
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