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[Comic Book Review] “Django/Zorro” #1

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Throw a classic cinematic icon with a modern interpretation of the western gun-slinging hero and you get Django / Zorro #1. After reading this debut issue, I now want to go dig up the mini-series of DJango Unchained that Vertigo Comicsreleased last year. It’s as if anyone can meet anyone in comics. Oh wait, that’s the best part about comics! Anything can and will happen which makes it a fun read indeed.

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WRITTEN BY: Quentin Tarantino and Matt Wagner

ART BY: Esteve Polls

PUBLISHER: Dynamite Entertainment / Vertigo Comics

PRICE: $3.99

RELEASE: 12 November 2014

Reviewed by: Your Friendly Neighborhood Brady
Twitter: @mrbradysteele

Once upon a time in the Old West, the unlikeliest of team-ups happened. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a mute Indian, an aged, wealthy Mexican and an African American bounty hunter roll into a town. Of course they do. Why not? I had to double-check the credits for this story to make sure I wasn’t reading things wrong.

Legendary film maker Quentin Tarantino and veteran comic book creator Matt Wagner have started another tale for the man with the mark of “Z” and the deadliest gun in recent cowboy cinema start a quest of justice. The dialogue is pretty crisp as you would expect from these storytellers. Tarantino and Wagner seem to work well together as establishing who can do what and how cool they can sound doing it early on.

Artist Esteve Polls is new to me but impresses in this first chapter nicely. The action is straight out of the movies of both characters. It’s crisp when it needs to be. Polls also makes his work simple and direct as needed with great effect. This collaboration seems to be a well thought-out one and I look forward to seeing more from them.

Anytime you see Zorro in action, you can’t help but see how influential a hero he is throughout pop culture. Comics fans should definitely recognize where one of THE most popular heroes (that rhymes with…Ratman) and see how brilliant this classic hero’s mythos really is. I imagine it’ll be quite the tale to see as a newer hero like Django learns from this legend. I truly believe you will enjoy this story if you like any of the creators or characters in these pages. To me, it feels like we’ve only just started and it looks like it’ll be a really stylish story.

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‘Witchblade’ is Getting Resurrected This Summer in New Comic Series from Top Cow and Image Comics

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Witchblade, the popular comic series that initially ran from 1995 to 2015 and launched a TV series, is getting resurrected in a new comic series from Top Cow and Image Comics. It’s set to unleash heavy metal, black magic and blood this summer.

Look for the new Witchblade series to launch on July 17, 2024.

In Witchblade #1, “New York City Police Detective Sara Pezzini’s life was forever fractured by her father’s murder. Cold, cunning, and hellbent on revenge, Sara now stalks a vicious criminal cabal beneath the city, where an ancient power collides and transforms her into something wild, magnificent, and beyond her darkest imaginings. How will Sara use this ancient power, or will she be consumed by it?”

The series is penned by NYT Best-Selling writer Marguerite Bennett (AnimosityBatwomanDC Bombshells) and visualized by artist Giuseppe Cafaro (Suicide SquadPower RangersRed Sonja). The creative duo is working with original co-creator Marc Silvestri, who is the CEO of Top Cow Productions Inc. and one of the founders of Image Comics. They are set to reintroduce the series to Witchblade’s enduring fans with “a reimagined origin with contemporary takes on familiar characters and new story arcs that will hook new readers and rekindle the energy and excitement that fueled the 90’s Image Revolution that shaped generations of top creators.”

Bennett said in a statement, “The ability to tell a ferocious story full of monsters, sexuality, vision, and history was irresistible.” She adds, “Our saga is sleek, vicious, ferocious, and has a lot to say about power in the 21st century and will be the first time that we are stopping the roller coaster to let more people on. I’ve loved Witchblade since I was a child, and there is truly no other heroine like Sara with such an iconic legacy and such a rich, brutal relationship to her own body.”

“The Witchblade universe is being modernized to reflect how Marguerite beautifully explores the extreme sides of Sara through memories, her personal thoughts, like desire and hunger, in her solitude and when she is possessed by the Witchblade. So, I had to visually intersect a noir True Detective-like world with a supernatural, horror world that is a fantastic mix between Berserk and Zodiac,” Cafaro stated.

Marc Silvestri notes, “This is brand new mythology around Sara, and I can’t wait for you to fall in love with her and all the twists and turns. Discover Witchblade reimagined this summer, and join us as we bring all the fun of the 90s to the modern age and see how exciting comics can be. I can’t wait for you to read this new series.”

Witchblade#1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, July 17th, for $4.99 for 48 pages. And it’ll come with multiple cover variants.

  • Cover A: Marc Silvestri and Arif Prianto (Full Color)

  • Cover B: Giuseppe Cafaro and Arif Prianto (Full Color)

  • Cover C: Blank Sketch Cover

  • Cover D (1/10): Dani and Brad Simpson (Full Color)

  • Cover E (1/25): Marc Silvestri and Arif Prianto, Virgin Cover (Full Color)

  • Cover F (1/50): J.Scott Campbell (Full Color)

  • Cover G (1/100): Bill Sienkiewicz. (Full Color)

  • Cover H (1/250): Line art by Marc. Virgin Cover, Inks (B/W)

Witchblade #1 will also be available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.

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