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And Finally… When Jack Black Would Have Played Muktuk Wolfsbreath: Hardboiled Shaman

Muktuk Shallow Hal Premiere L.A.

Recently I had cause to revisit one of my favourite nineties comics, Muktuk Wolfsbreath, which appeared in Terry Laban's Cud, then in a series from DC/Vertigo drawn by the wonderful Steve Parkhouse. The central conceit was that the world of an ancient shaman was real, exactly as believed, with demons and spirits abound. And that Muktuk, our star, was the equivalent of a private detective, solving crimes, rescuing the lost, saving the needy.

I bloody loved it. And I took the opportunity of being reminded to read the webcomic from a few years ago. Whereupon I found out that the comic had been optioned, for a while, by Jack Black's people as a movie vehicle for him.

And, I can totally picture it. He'd have been great. But it was not to be, and it joined the Green Lantern movie that never was as well (and despite some fan outrage, it would have to have been better than the one we got, and the ending was killer.)

Anyway. A look at something that never was.

 


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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