Cowboy Ninja Viking

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Safe to say this one should be seen high on something

Variety....

Disney gets 'Cowboy Ninja Viking'

Company nabs feature rights to popular comic book

Disney's looking for a triple threat, purchasing feature rights to comic book "Cowboy Ninja Viking" with Mark Gordon and Management 360 combining to produce through their joint venture MG/360.

The writing team of Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese ("Zombieland") will write the film as well as produce. Management 360's Ben Forkner and Guymon Casady will also produce along with Mark Gordon and The Mark Gordon Co.'s Bryan Zuriff.

MG/360 was formed earlier this year by Gordon and Management 360 to develop and produce projects by taking advantage of Gordon's extensive experience as a producer and Management's 360 talent roster.

Image Comics has been publishing the Cowboy Ninja Viking series through its Shadowline imprint.

The Cowboy Ninja Viking character in the series is the birth child of Doctor Sebastian Ghislain, a psychotherapist who recruits Multiple Personality Disorder patients to create a unit of counter-intelligence agents called the Triplets. Problems arise when the Triplets become out of control assassins -- leading to the deadliest Triplet of them all, Cowboy Ninja Viking, being called in to take down his own brethren.
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[a_lost_packet_]

Techno-Viking is NOT amused!

Seriously though.. There's a comic character called Cowboy Ninja Viking? What? No Cowboy Pirate Vikings?

 

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Yup, it's real -

From Publishers Weekly

The American cowboy, the ninja, and the Viking form a triumvirate of toughness seldom equaled in world-to say nothing of pop culture-history. Each is superbad in his own right, but what about when the most deadly attributes of each can be found in one man? Duncan is such a man, the result of a secret government program to create soldiers for the war on terror. This experimental regimen conscripts people suffering from multiple personality disorder and turns them into "triplets," highly lethal operatives possessing three distinct personalities drawing from warrior/tough guy archetypes. Duncan serves as the reader's entry point into a complex web of espionage and violence that grows more intriguing as we are let in on exactly what's up with Duncan, the people who want to drag him back into the fold, and the rest of the triplets that remain at large. Lieberman crafts a tight and darkly funny plot while Rossmo's scratchy linework perfectly captures the jangled psychological state of its protagonist. This is one of those series whose title alone practically heralds outright narrative stupidity, but it's far more odd and entertaining than expected.

 

[a_lost_packet_]

You know, comic book readers come in all shapes, sizes and ages. The one thing I think they have in common is that they're willing to suspend disbelief in the search for fun, often going to extreme lengths.

When you have an audience like that, willing to accept that one man can contain synergy of machismo that would be Cowboy, Ninja and Viking... combined.. Heck, you can write anything!

I don't mean that you can write crap. You simply don't have to worry too much about your subject matter or where you decide to take the story. If your readers will accept that CNV guy is on Earth, but is then whisked away to Alpha Centauri B by babaliscious aliens who want him to solve their underpopulation problems, the only limits you have is your imagination. Who cares how he got there? Heck, he's Cowboy Ninja Viking for cryin' out loud. Even Chuck Norris would have to give him a nod.

There's a certain appeal, I suppose, in not having to worry about anything but internal consistency. But, I just don't see it being more than a type of cult classic B movie, or something.