Django/Zorro #2 Review

Written by: Quentin Tarantino, Matt Wagner Art by : Esteve Polls The Django/Zorro series is still living up to a boyhood fantasy I never knew I had– seeing two of my favorite characters working side-by-side. But the latest issue of Django/Zorro didn’t really feature these two that much. Instead, it took a completely different turn and focused on the villain of the series, Gurko Langdon, a.k.a. the “Archduke of Arizona.” (….really?) I’m honestly a sucker for origin stories (Godfather Part II > Godfather Part I), and that’s essentially what this issue was. Through the eyes of Alric Langdon we learn that Gurko Langdon is highly ambitious, meticulous in his planning and has insane amounts of foresight. At first he comes off as a fairly-decent man with a pocket full of dreams that looks on as his son plays with a child his own age, a young “peasant girl” named Conchita, for the first time in months. He then chooses to become a surrogate father to the girl. Very respectable.

Langdon then goes through with a plot that includes him dropping the kids off at a boarding school, nearly going bankrupt to make up a fake family for Conchita, who he’s renamed, and joining a monastery to gain access to their most secure secrets and knowledge. Yeah, this dude’s determined. Then sh*t got weird… So, Papa Langdon pops back up on the scene and sees Alric and Conchita, now grown and most likely in love, for the first time in 11 years. What does he do? He tells Conchita that he did all of th…