Graphic Novel Review... Lucky Luke Book 45
Lucky Luke Book 45: Tying the Knot, by Achdé & Gerra, Cinebook
48 PAGES of corny running gags, exaggerated cartooning calamities and social subtext that’s relevant but doesn’t get in the way in this Lucky Luke collection, first produced in 2006 on mainland Europe.
It begins with the Dalton Brothers getting ready to swing from the gallows pole, when the president of the US of A decides there’s only one way to prevent prison’s becoming overpopulated. Fortunately for our bad guys there’s an old legal clause in the state they’re gaoled up in that declares that if they’re married they can be allowed to live. Thus it falls to their old Ma to seek four willing females to save her kin. She fails, and badly. Then Cheerful Eagle, chief of the Flat Heads Tribe comes to the rescue and offers his daughters’ hands in marriage.
Craftily, as we find out, he seeks to make deal with The Daltons himself, but not until the less than glamorous squaws put their new husbands through their paces. It’s one of those books were Lucky Luke tends to be an observer to the absurdities that ensue, and despite a rash of Daltons-related Lucky Luke books in recent times a pretty good one.
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