Created by onetime Luke Cage and Black Goliath scribe Tony Isabella in 1977, Black Lightning was the first DC Comics series to be headlined by a Black superhero.
Black Lightning does not yet have a confirmed release date for The CW.
The new series is expected to break ranks with other more Millennial-centered CW DCEU series by featuring an older adult superhero, framing Cress Williams’ Black Lightning (real name: Jefferson Pierce) as a veteran costumed-crimefighter who comes out of retirement in order to aid his vigilantism-inclined daughter and protect his city from crime.
On Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., her character of Agent Weaver was the head of the Agency’s Science & Technology Division and the mentor of series regulars Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons.