Massive Publishing will publish Sean Gordon Murphy’s Zorro: Man of the Dead, an updated take on the classic pulp hero, as a four-part comics miniseries that will be available to the direct market as well as a prestige collected edition that will be available only on Kickstarter. Both the series and the Kickstarter will launch in October.

“The idea for this book is Don Quixote meets Narcos, told in a contemporary setting,” Murphy said in a statement accompanying the announcement. “Diego is a young man who's convinced that he's Zorro—as a child, he had a psychotic break after witnessing the murder of his parents by the drug cartel in his village. To cope with the trauma, he embraces the 200 year old legend of Zorro by putting on the mask, training with the sword, and waging a war against the Narcos to free his people.”

Massive announced the launch of its flagship line in May with another Murphy project, The Plot Holes (see “Exclusive: Massive Announces New Imprints, Flagship Line Launch Title”).

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