Black Lightning “Painkiller” Set To Get his Own Spinoff Series

Black Lightning is getting a spin-off series with The CW developing a backdoor pilot around Painkiller. That’s right, Painkiller will star Jordan Calloway reprising his role as the character. The backdoor pilot will be the seventh episode of Black Lightning season four. We do know that Salim Akil will be writing, executive producing, and directing this episode. It makes sense given that he knows the character best from a writing stand point. Continuing from there we have the synopsis for the upcoming episode that will be our pilot. “Calloway plays…

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Black Lightning: Cold Dead Hands Review

This will be a spoiler-free review of Black Lightning: Cold Dead Hands. So no need to worry about spoilers in this particular review. Alright, so we’re introduced to Black Lightning stopping a few criminals who call themselves “The Weathermen”. I have to say it’s interesting seeing Tony Isabella writing this character once again. I haven’t really read that much Black Lightning in terms of comics. I know he’s had a miniseries here and there during the New 52 but I wasn’t inclined to pick them up. Hearing Tony was going…

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Black Lightning “Cold Dead Hands” Miniseries

What’s going on heroes? Continuing with the Black Lightning news. Coming out tomorrow is a Black Lightning miniseries which is entitled “Cold Dead Hands” and I have to say that I’m excited. I’ve always enjoyed reading Black Lightning comics so this miniseries will be a great jumping point to get back into the character before his CW Series. Writing the book is Tony Isabella who is one of the co-creator of Black Lightning along with Trevor Von Eeden. So seeing him getting to write a character he helped create is…

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Black Lightning Trailer

We have the first trailer for the upcoming Black Lightning series. I have to say that I’m excited for this new series to drop. Going by Entertainment Weekly, this series will not be in the Arrow-verse. To quote the article from EW. CW chief Mark Pedowitz revealed to reporters on Thursday morning ahead of the network’s upfront presentation that Black Lightning does not take place in the Arrowverse — the same shared universe that the other four series call home. Couple that with the fact that Black Lightning films in…

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