Graphic Novel Review... Lucky Luke Book 43
Lucky Luke Book 43: The Bluefeet Are Coming! By Morris, Cinebook
WHEN MEXICAN card shark Pedro Cucaracha is run out of Rattlesnake Town, he’s captured and about to be scalped by Injuns, until he makes a deal with Chief Parched Bear of the Bluefeet Tribe...
The promise of booze by the keg-full puts the chief on the warpath, and he also sends smoke signals out to neighbouring tribes to come join the party. But until they do, Licky Luke and his six shooters are there to save the day.
A couple of racial stereotypes aside, this old fashioned humour holds together as well as it did in 1971 when first produced by Morris. That the cartooning art displays sequential skills of the first order, and more action scenes on a single page than most US superhero comics can achieve in a whole series’ story arc is a sad sign of our times.
The Lucky Luke theme of running gags are present (the town’s sherrif and his superstitions for one), and that the plot semi-resolves itself by way of that old cowboy film cliché with those you-know-whos arriving to save the day being most unexpected because we’re too busy reading and having a laugh to prepare ourselves for that inevitability.
Lucky Luke is generally good fun for all ages, and this is a particularly good book in the series.
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