In anticipation of the Transcontinental Railroad, Archduke of Arizona Gürko Langdon has enslaved the natives for labor on a state-wide railway, while he waits for the United States to honor his claim as sovereign of the territory, per the Treaty of Hidalgo-Guadalupe. Learning of the archduke's injustice to the people of Arizona, Don Diego de la Vega enlists the bounty hunter Django as his personal bodyguard as he sets off to undo Langdon's schemes. All too familiar with the cruelties of slavery, Django is eager to assist Diego on this mission, though it is more political than the gunslinger prefers... even so, there seems to be more to the old fox than his fussy millionaire persona lets on.
Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an Academy Award- and Palme d'Or-winning American film director, screenwriter and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and stylized violence. His films include Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill (Vol. 1 2003, Vol. 2 2004), Death Proof (2007), and Inglourious Basterds (2009).
This issue shows the reader the backstory of the character that will undoubtedly become the villain of this story. The archduke of Arizona. And what a backstory it is. He spent years and years of perfecting a lie, a lie that made him the archduke of Arizona and owner of 120 000 square miles. Like it's said in this issue, the archduke is a man of vision.
How someone comes to this kind of plan, beats me. But it makes for a great story. Can't wait to see Django and Don Diego de la Vega aka Zorro taking on this villain. We'll see what'll happen in issue 3.