DC Comics will be collecting Kevin Smith’s first Green Arrow story arc in Green Arrow: Quiver, a 232-page hardcover, on March 13.

The book features art by Phil Hester and Ande Parks and a new cover painting by Matt Wagner.

Here’s how DC describes the story:

“Oliver Queen’s mysterious reappearance in the DC Universe will have fans constantly guessing about how Queen survived seeming death aboard an exploding airplane. What really happened on that fateful day? In Quiver, readers get a chance to uncover the truth for themselves, as they follow Green Arrow along his quest for the media-dubbed ‘Star City Slayer.’

“Quiver features several guest-stars who have questions that demand answers, including Queen’s ex-teammates in the JLA, his ex-lover Black Canary, his ex-partner Arsenal, and the son he hardly knew, Connor Hawke – who adopted the mantle of Green Arrow after Queen’s ‘death.’ A certain Dark Knight from Gotham City has some questions of his own, but he won’t like the answers…

“Displaying Smith’s masterly characterization, brilliantly engaging dialogue and eye for action, Quiver follows Oliver Queen through man’s most uncharted realms – life, death, and back to life.”

The book will cost $24.95, and DC said it will not offer a trade paperback version earlier than September.

On Friday, Variety reported that “The Six Million Dollar Man” was coming to the big screen from an adaptation of Martin Caidin’s “Cyborg” at Universal Pictures. The news included word that writer/director Kevin Smith (”Dogma”) turned in a script in 1995 and may still be involved. Now Moviehole tells us the opposite….

I had the chance to talk to Kevin Smith today. Contrary to internet speculation, Smith will not be involved in the new version of THE 6 MILLION DOLLAR MAN, reported by Variety yesterday. Smith’s got no idea of the new project so looks like it’s unrelated to the draft he did a few years back.