Mondragon
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Dynamite's Lone Ranger origin was an interesting take, much better than the modern Disney movie which went out of its way to clown him, and literally drag him through s#!+.
Dynamite's origin introduced a much younger version of Reid, developing him a bit further, and you see him more evolve and grow into the inevitable role, rather than just emerging almost fully formed the day after the Canyon massacre.
Tonto's past was further developed, the capture of Silver and the hunting down of Cavandish which completes the first arc, were all pretty good, although it strays some from the original and goes a bit dark, it's an understandably more modern perspective, and if you are already familiar with the story it helps that it feels "new", otherwise what's the point of telling the exact same story.
It was a bit slow (over decompressed) at times while purchasing the monthlies, but I do recommend it in one go as in the trade above, it looked beautiful too, covers by John Cassaday , art by Sergio Cariello.
Dynamite's Zorro take was ok, introduced a bit of an origin (which Zorro lacked) borrowing heavily from the Allende Zorro novel.
Main elements being he's a product of both worlds, half Spanish (father) educated and trained with a sword in Spain, part Native American(mother) raised among Chumash, adopts their skills, and introduced the vision quest, where he is guided by a black fox, as his spirit animal.
Yeah, Zorro kind of had one foot in the swashbuckling pirate adventure, and the other in the Western genre. I guess he's a bit of both. Or rather fits right in-between, which makes him so unique.I also own the Blitzway Zorro, which I consider part of my western collection. ...
In the original McCulley pulps, the second Zorro tale is a pirate adventure, he has an ally who is a somewhat reformed pirate who tells Zorro he would have made a great Pirate, and refers to him as a "land-pirate". Which is pretty much what he is.
After Argosy he was published regular in West Magazine, and Disney positioned him in Frontier Land.
Would love some classic 1:6 Zorro and Lone Ranger figures
Possibly my most wanted 1:6 figuresI would still love a legit Guy Williams Disney era Zorro,
...and Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) and Tonto ( Jay Silverheels) some of my most wanted.
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