Arrow Adds Vixen to the Huge Expanding Almost Never-Ending Roster

Off rip, I am here for Vixen being added to ANYTHING, fam. After CW announced they would be doing a web series on CW seed for Vixen’s debut, the (Black) nerd community was pretty excited to get one of the most popular Black Woman characters in comics into some new media. And then we all went to watch that first episode online and realized it was only 4 minutes long…

I too, illogically even, shoved it off because it wasn’t a “full-size” production, but I found my way back to it a few months later. I plowed through all five episodes in quick succession (did I mention that these episodes were 4 minutes long?) and was surprised to find how much I liked it. Even with the short run time, it told a brief, yet complete story and properly introduced Mari McCabe to fans of Arrow and The Flash that may not have known her from the comics themselves. Now it is announced that Megalyn Enchikunwoke will reprise what was originally just a voice acting role as the live-action version of Vixen when Arrow comes back in January. After watching the short series, I’m definitely excited to see Enchikunwoke don the (probably more modest) yellow jumpsuit and go safari on enemies on the small screen.

So…just how much Vixen are we likely to get? I don’t want to skirt over the fact that Arrow is actively working to combat the diversity issue it has had over the first couple of seasons, especially since its partner show in The Flash took the opposite approach. But the roster for Arrow is getting, li…