Lucky Luke Book 51: The Painter
Lucky Luke Book 51: The Painter by Morris & Bob De Groot, Cinebook
RENOWNED AMERICAN frontier artist Frederick Remington is the painter about whom this book revolves, a real historical person pictured larger than life to accommodate this gently amusing storyline.
The plot is loose, Remington is off across the wild west painting and Governor Waterfalls has sent Luke to protect him. A polite, well mannered giant of a figure you wouldn't think Remington needed help, but with a propensity to drink and eat you out of house and home, he seems to walk into scenarios that requires the use of fisticuffs, less so the need for Luke to prove he can shoot faster than his own shadow.
The pair drift from one location to another, Remington stopping to paint (and that this book was first produced in 2001 we note by the manner in which technology allows photographs of the famous paintings to be suitably composed on the cartooned pages) and them having to deal with bar room brawls and red Indians alike, but most particularly a chap named Crazy Dan.
Taken at a leisurely pace, an amusing enough book.
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