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"Lucky Luke," along with "Tintin" and "Asterix," is one of the top three most popular Franco-Belgian comic books in the world. The total number of copies of books in the series has passed 300 million. "Lucky Luke" has already been translated into more than 25 languages, and finally appeared in Russian! Lucky Luke is a charming and fearless lonely cowboy of the times of the conquest of the American Wild West. He is a real hero, and even a superhero, honest and fair, defender of all the weak and helpless. He always stands on the side of the law, helping local authorities to resist bandits and other villains. Like a true superhero, he has his own superpower: to shoot faster than his own shadow! Each Lucky Luke story is a thrilling and highly educational comedy western that reflects real-life events surrounding the exploration of the Wild West. In the seventh book, Luke helps the Western Union Company lay the first transcontinental telegraph line. On the way, the heroes are undergone not only natural dangers, but also hostile Indians. And readers are kept in suspense until the very end of the detective story line: in the team of builders of the telegraph clearly turned traitor. Who is this scoundrel? Comics about Lucky Luke are designed for the widest audience. Both children and older readers will be delighted with the adventurous storyline, virtuoso cartoon drawing, good irony and humor in literally every frame. The humor, based, as a rule, on wordplay and principles of situation comedy, never falls below the belt. And despite the fact that the heroes now and then waving guns and making piffle, in these stories there is neither rudeness nor violence. The protagonist shoots, only to deftly knock the weapon out of the hands of opponents with a skillful shot. And the opponents, naturally, always miss. It is safe to say that not a single character is harmed in any story. Unless you count the bruises and bumps that
periodically deservedly get negative heroes. Especially worth noting
easy to read large print, thanks to which the comics about Lucky Luke will be suitable for beginners and will become for them the first step to
reading novels of Fenimore Cooper and Mein Reed. The creators of "Lucky Luke" are two brilliant humorists, Belgian artist Maurice de Bever, who worked under the pseudonym Morris, and Frenchman René Gosinni, well known to Russian readers for his "Little Nicolas" series of stories and the Asterix comics, where he also acted as a screenwriter.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Lucky Luke