After a year of begging for more “Jericho,” fans are going to get their wish … kind of. The canceled CBS show will return as a comic book.

Devil’s Due Publishing has made a deal with CBS Consumer Products to publish a “Jericho” comic that picks up where the cult-favorite series left off. The project pledges to answer many of the story’s lingering questions and is aimed at appealing to the show’s famously devoted fans.

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“It’s not high. It’s a decent gross for the [two-and-a-half-hour-plus] running time,” says Jeff Bock, a box-office analyst for the company. The numbers, he adds, “don’t tell us it’s going to be a huge blockbuster.”

Bock says the take signals somewhere around a $46 million to $50 million three-day gross, a debut that would put it in the neighborhood of Batman Begins, Superman Returns and Wanted, to name three comic-book releases, but leave it out of the reach of director Zack Snyder’s 300, which bowed with $70.8 million in 2007.

Among other recent midnight-launched movies, Watchmen came up short of Twilight ($7 million), and, unsurprisingly, a very long ways away from The Dark Knight (record $18.5 million.)

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