48pp
colour
A4 comic album
UK £8.99
US $12.95
Lucky Luke enters a small town to drop off at the sheriff's office a young man who tried to steal Jolly Jumper. A few miles down the road, in the middle of nowhere, he suddenly finds himself threatened... by a little girl! Young Rose and her brother are currently alone in their cabin after the mysterious disappearance of their parents. Luke will have to investigate, but also take care of two particularly wild and undisciplined children!
Well this is why reviewing can be a pain in the bum. This album dos not appear on Cinebook's webpage so I cannot give a link to order from there. So I spend an hour scouring the internet and find details on Amazon -a company I prefer not to give any publicity to. However, it does state: "This title will be released on July 1, 2024." I see what you did there, Cinebook....
Anyway, first thing I noticed was the cover and my first thought was "That is Lucky Luke?"
Blutch, pen name of Christian Hincker (born 27th December, 1967 in Strasbourg) is a French comic book author. He is considered one of the main authors of French comics since the early 1990s. After studying at the École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg, Blutch was discovered through a competition organized by the monthly magazine Fluide Glacial. He got his nickname from a classmate due to his physical resemblance to Corporal Blutch, one of the characters of the comic series Les Tuniques Bleues (or The Blue Coats if you read Cinebook's UK reprints).
Seeing another artist take over from one you already know is a little jarring but this book is not part of the regular Lucky Luke series but "A HomageTo Morris's Lonesome Cowboy" and once that is clear the old man with a beard can sit back and breath easily!
There is a good script with lots of comic bar fighting, gunplay and this crosses over to the always present visual gags and, to be honest the sheriff in Rubbish Gulch is not up to the job...or any kind of job other than...being held prisoner?
The gun-slinger having to take care of two troublesome kids is straight out of a 1960s Western movie (just substitute James Garner or Glenn Ford for Lucky Luke). It was an enjoyable read and a new style that worked so no complaints from me. The reader -you- well, you gotta wait til July😛
Recommended.
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