It's not like WKA (Women Kicking Ass) hasn't been done before. James Cameron launched the underwhelming career of Jessica Alba as a WKA in the short-lived Dark Angel and more recently J. J. Abrams made a star (and a tabloid regular) out of Jennifer Garner in Alias.

We've also seen WKA in westerns in the form of J. T. Edson's recurring character of Calamity Jane. And robots we are familiar with (anyone remember George Lucas). And it is not as if sci-fi and westerns haven't been combined either: Joss Whedon did that on TV (Firefly) and later adapted it to the big screen (Serenity).

But a WKA in a sci-fi western? That was a bit new for me, although only just.

Daisy Kutter is like the version of Calamity Jane romanticized by popular literature. She is a reckless adventuress, a sharp-shooter with nerves of steel. Her blond hair is curled under her ears, her head covered by a Wyatt hat decorated with a band made of oval buckles. She has bid farewell to her former life of robbing banks, stagecoaches and trains and now runs a small supplies store in a small unnamed town.

When her job bores her to tears she picks up some toy dart guns and nails every object in the store. She dismisses her ex-partner, still romantically inclined towards her, and consigns him to a heap of other things she wants to forget along with her past. She is desperately trying to turn over a new leaf. But it goes so against her grain that she is clearly struggling.

In the graphic novel Daisy Kutter: The Last Train, writer and illustrator Kazu Kibuishi does a marvelous job sketching out the essentials of Kutter's character using clean, well-defined lines PhotoShopped to perfection in various hues of gray. As a writer, Kibuishi keeps his dialogues short and lets his drawings do most of the narration.

And as in all good sci-fi westerns, robots show up all over the place and play an important role in the action.