Django Unchained #1 – Review

By: Quentin Tarantino (story), R.M. Guéra & Jason Latour (art), Giulia Brusco (colors)

The Story: It figures a dentist’s unflinching tolerance for pain makes him an ideal bounty hunter.

The Review: I don’t have too many unreasonable prejudices—I don’t think—and the ones I do have I usually try to suppress whenever possible, but I’ve got to say: I am not a fan of adaptations of any kind, from any one medium to another medium.  Almost always the original intent of the original author gets lost (see the Lord of the Rings films, or 2001: A Space Odyssey, the novel), even when the original author is involved.

Still, I decided to give Django Unchained a shot.  True, I’d never seen the movie (but then, none of us has at this point, presumably) and I really had no idea what the story was even about, but what the heck—live dangerously, I say, especially when the only thing it’ll cost you is three bucks.  I figured an adaptation which basically lifts the original script and provides some nice visuals ought to have a pretty good chance of being as faithful as possible.