DC Entertainment will be launching Arrow: Season 2.5 and Flash: Season Zero digital comics this fall.
While Arrow season 3 and The Flash season 1 won’t premiere until October, fans will have digital comics of each series to tide them over, reports TV Guide.
Arrow debuted a digital comic series between seasons 1 and 2. The Arrow: Season 2.5 comic will “tell one continuous story that I’ve separated into two-different arcs,” says Arrow executive producer Marc Guggenheim.
Guggenheim will co-write the series with Arrow staff writer Keto Shimizu. The comic will feature art by Joe Bennett with inks by Jack Jadson.
“It will take us from the end of season 2 right up to the beginning of season 3,” Guggenheim previews. He also teases that it will feature “all the elements that people like about the show,” like banter between Oliver and Felicity.
It will also answer “[a] good chunk of the burning questions” from the end of season 2, like what happened after Detective Lance collapsed in the season finale.
Some new characters introduced in the comic are also expected also appear on the television series.
Meanwhile, The Flash: Season Zero will take place between the pilot and episode 2. Arrow executive producer and Flash showrunner Andrew Kreisberg will write the series alongside Brooke Eikmeier and Katherine Walczak. Phil Hester and Eric Gapstur will do the art.
“Barry will [already] be the Flash, he will have his team, everyone will be in that world, and we’ll introducing a new set of villains that we won’t be seeing on the TV show,” Kreisberg says.
“It’ll feel like the same heart, humor and spectacle that you get watching Flash,” though the villains will be a “little bit more costume-y and a little bit more outlandish” than on the television show.
Arrow: Season 2.5 will have its digital release on Monday, September 1. The Flash: Season Zero will release Monday, September 8. The two series will then alternate releases every Monday. They will be available at readdcentertainment.com and the DC Comics app as well as the iBooks, Nook, and Kindle stores.
Print editions will be available on Wednesday, October 1 and Wednesday October 8 for The Flash and Arrow respectively.
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