Geekologie I Watch Stuff The Superficial

John Woo Adapting Comic About This Really Rad Gun

caliber-john-woo.jpg

Variety is reporting that John Woo has plans to direct an adaptation of Radical Comics' Caliber. What is Caliber, you ask? It's a comic that takes Arthurian legend and places it in the setting of the Wild West. And how have they done that? By replacing Excalibur with the stupidest gun ever. From the Radical Comics website:

Caliber itself is a tattooed six-gun, given to Arthur by the Indians and imbued with supernatural power.

I thought it was considered a bit uncouth to still refer to to Native Americans as Indians, but OK, ignoring that, a supernatural gun sounds kind of neat. So what's its power?

The secret of the gun is that it is never loaded with bullets, but when a man with Justice on his side is holding it, it can fire.

Just like only Arthur could wield the sword. OK, that makes sense.

Wait, there's more?

When it does [fire], it fires Thunder itself...

Whoa, whoa, whoa. What? Like the sound, capitalized? Even if you mean lightning, you're seriously saying the gun shoots lightning (or Thunder)? Fine, that's pretty stupid, but still not quiet the stupidest gun ever.

and [it] never misses.

What? So the gun is supernatural, requires no bullets, only fires when "Justice" is on the side of the shooter, shoots "Thunder," and never misses. That is officially the stupidest gun ever. At least until I finish my comic about a ghost gun (literally the ghost of a dead gun) that makes wisecracks, can morph into a car, and shoots living shuriken.

  • January 27, 2011
    Deadline is reporting that Javier Bardem has been offered the lead in Universal's planned adaptation of Steven King's The Dark Tower. The seven-novel series, thought to be unfilmable (I just made that up, but considering it's seven books long--not counting the prequel comics an... / Continue →
  • June 20, 2011
    On The Hobbit's official Facebook page, Peter Jackson has announced the addition of two more names to his cast of millions. Lost actress and uncredited White Chicks partygoer Evangeline Lilly will lend her elf-like, Kate Beckinsale-esque features to Tauriel, a newly-created Woo... / Continue →
  • June 17, 2011
    Filling in some crucial Hobbit casting that's been keeping the high fantasy community up all night, Peter Jackson has officially filled the parts of Bard and Smaug in his Tolkien adaptation. Welsh actor Luke Evans, whose apparent god-like appearance got him the role of Apollo i... / Continue →
  • There are Comments