When Black Lightning arrived on The CW in 2018, fans of the network’s existing franchise of DC Comics inspired television series, the Arrowverse, were surprised. Black Lightning wasn’t a part of the ...
Black Lightning debuted on The CW on January 16 ... re doing,” series co-creator Salim Akil said in 2018. “The great thing that Warner Bros. And CW allowed us to do was create our own world.