Comics
[Comic Book Review] “Django/Zorro” #1
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.
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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‘Curse of the Where Wolf’ Bites Into August Release With Trio of Werewolf Theatrical Screenings [Exclusive Preview]
Larry Chaney‘s hairy misadventures are continuing in the sequel graphic novel Curse of the Where Wolf from creative team Rob Saucedo, Debora Lancianese, and Jack Morelli, and its author is celebrating with a trio of horror’s greatest werewolf films.
The Curse of the Where Wolf hits shelves on August 7 from Encyclopocalypse Publications.
That coincides with the launch of a theatrical screening event in Houston, Texas, featuring a trio of seminal werewolf flicks turning 45 this year: The Howling on August 7, Wolfen on August 14, and An American Werewolf in London on August 21.
Each screening features a “werewolf in film” presentation as well as a book signing from Where Wolf author and River Oaks Theatre artistic director Rob Saucedo.
In the new graphic novel, “Being a werewolf sucks. Reporter Larry Chaney wanted to be a hero. Instead, he became a werewolf. Now, caught between incredible new powers and a desire to eat everything (and everyone) in sight, Larry must find a cure for his curse. Or die trying.”
“With Where Wolf, I wanted to tell a whodunit set in a furry convention, so the story was pretty contained within a very specific setting and genre. With Curse of the Where Wolf, I wanted to celebrate everything I love about the possibility of comic books. Curse of the Where Wolf is a funny book, in every sense of the phrase, but it’s also an earnest look at a person’s struggle to become a better version of themselves, especially when the alternative is to become a literal monster,” Saucedo says of Curse.
The original graphic novel was previously serialized as the first webcomic hosted on Fangoria before being collected by Encyclopocalypse Publications in 2023 and has already been optioned for film, podcast, and television development ahead of launch by producers James Fino (“The Freak Brothers” for Tubi, “Rick and Morty” for Adult Swim) and Charles Horak (First Date for Magnolia Pictures).
Expect Larry to find himself in even weirder situations in the 362-page full color sequel; Saucedo has provided Bloody Disgusting with exclusive art pages from the upcoming graphic novel that showcase lupine humor.
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