In 1984, Daddy Cool was turned into a graphic novel, with text by comics veteran Don Glut and illustrations by Filipino artist Alfredo Alcala.

[2] A film adaptation was greenlit by ContentFilm in 2004, to be helmed by Never Die Alone director Ernest R. Dickerson, and rapper DMX expressed interest in a starting role.

The novel tells the story of a Detroit hit man who, like the patriarch of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, has high aspirations for his daughter and teaches her in the arts he knows best, in this case knife wielding.

Daddy Cool agrees, but only kills Tiny and Jimmy, sparing Buddy because he forced the other two men to leave before raping the child a second time.

The final scene of the novel sees the daughter using the knife-wielding lessons her father gave her to kill Daddy Cool.