Oscar-nominated scribe Daniel Clowes is adapting his Eisner-winning story DEATH RAY for Jack Black's Black and White shingle, says Variety.

Black will produce and take a small role.

DEATH RAY was published in the most recent issue of Clowes' EIGHTBALL comic. Scribe plans to update the protagonist from a teenager to an older man who has to deal with having super powers while living a normal suburban life.

Clowes is also developing an adaptation of Rudy Rucker's "Master of Space and Time," with helmer Michel Gondry, who owns the rights.

Clowes most recently wrote "Art School Confidential" for Sony Classics. He was nominated for an Academy Award with Terry Zwigoff for their screenplay "Ghost World."