VIDEO : Black Lightning Showrunner Shares That He's Making A New Kind Of Superhero Show

Salim Akil's Black Lightning, which comes to The CW in January, is not going to look or feel like the rest of the network's DC superhero lineup -- in part becuase Akil wants to tell a different kind of story than other comic book shows are setting out to tell.
IN a recent interview with comicbook.com Akil revealed,
?I?m not really doing a show about a superhero,? Akil said. ?I?m doing a show about a man who has a family and is trying to affect his community.
He goes on to share,
"I could write a whole script without him ever using his powers, which nobody wants me to do.?