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Definitely didn’t see this coming when I first saw new Zorro comics on the shelf. Or ever. After a successful comic book adaptation of his film Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino will be co-plotting a crossover series that will throw Django, ancestor of John Shaft, up against classic pulp hero Zorro. An artist has not yet been announced, but writing the series along with Tarantino will be Matt Wagner, who has been on and off writing for Dynamite’s Zorro since 2008, with Reggie Hudlin editing. Tarantino had this to say for the announcement:
I’m very very excited about both this story and the opportunity to work with Matt. It was reading his Zorro stories that convinced me what a good idea it was to join these two icons together. And the story idea we came up with is thrilling, and I think will be an exciting new chapter for both characters.
I actually couldn’t think of a better Western character to fit with Django in such a left-field crossover. Zorro’s always been very much a man of the people, helping the downtrodden, so it makes a lot of sense that he might run in similar circles to Django, who I hope is just going around the Wild West shooting slave owners and smoking cigars. If this goes over well, I’m also going to be the first to hope that comics will be the medium Quentin Tarantino uses to finally tell his Vega Brothers prequel story, or at least the Kill Bill sequel he’s talked about that’s probably never going to happen.
[via Comics Alliance]