Lucky Luke & The One-Armed Bandit
Lucky Luke Book 33: The One-Armed Bandit, by Bob De Groot & Morris, Cinebook
IT'S POSSIBLE this may be the final book that Lucky Luke creator Morris worked on, before he passed away, and that De Groot concluded the unfinished tale.
Out in Michigan two brothers have become inventors, the results of which – like a mechanical cockerel cockadoodling at all hours – has sent their mother quite mad.
When they devise a gambling machine, the one-armed bandit of the book’s title, Senator Ball is impressed and thinks they can make a small fortune hiring the machines out to various towns’ saloons, only the brothers are as innocent as they are inventive and have barely left their own family homestead. Thus old friend Lucky Luke is called upon and the odds are on that misadventures can be expected, calamities will occur and some running gags pulled out along the way.
And so it goes.
If De Groot did complete this book, rather than work in tandem with Morris, he does an unenviable but good job. While some subplots conclude briskly negotiating a different feel of pacing near the end, most of the Lucky Luke motifs and traditions are kept in place.
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