"It's almost like a little mini episode after the pilot but before the next episode," Andrew Kreisberg (
Fringe), who co-wrote the story with Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Geoff Johns, tells
TV Guide. Mike Grell (
Green Lantern/Green Arrow) pencilled the cover which you can see to the right, while the interiors have been handled by Omar Francia (
Star Wars Legacy).
"People tend to think of Green Arrow as a little more lighthearted and sort of a ladies man," adds Kreisberg.
"And the Oliver Queen that we're doing a show about is a little bit more tortured, a little darker and lives more in the real world."
The story will apparently feature flashbacks showing more of Oliver Queen's past as a playboy before he became Green Arrow. There will also be a fair bit of time spent looking at Detectove Hilton; a character created by Kreisberg during his run on
Green Arrow for DC Comics and played by
24 star Roger Cross in the pilot. They also go on to tease that Deathstroke (spotted in one of the trailers for the
Arrow) will be involved somehow.
"To us those 10 pages are canon," Kreisberg conludes,
"and [for] anyone who grabs a copy: Hold onto it and as the series progresses, you'll appreciate it more and more."