The Dalton Brothers

Lucky Luke is a charming and fearless lone cowboy of the American Wild West era. He is a true hero, and even a superhero, honest and just, a defender of all the weak and helpless. He always stands on the side of the law, assisting local authorities in opposing bandits and other villains. Like a true superhero, he has a superpower: to shoot faster than his own shadow! Each story about Lucky Luke is an exciting and quite educational comedic western that reflects real events related to the conquest of the Wild West. In "The Dalton Brothers," the main hero faces off against the quartet of bandit brothers, the Daltons, wicked but not very smart. They want to take revenge on Luke for their cousins, who are even bigger bandits than they are, but defeating the lucky cowboy is not that easy. The Dalton Brothers will appear many more times in the stories about Lucky Luke, as they are the main comedic characters of the entire series, with their surname becoming a household name, synonymous with stupidity and clumsiness. The comics about Lucky Luke are aimed at a very wide audience. Both children and older readers will be delighted by the adventurous plot, the virtuoso caricature drawing, the kind irony, and the humor present in every frame. The humor, usually based on wordplay and the principles of situational comedy, never goes below the belt. And despite the heroes often waving guns and making pow-pow sounds, there is neither rudeness nor violence in these stories. The main character shoots only to dexterously knock the weapon out of the hands of opponents with a precise shot. And the opponents, of course, always miss. It can be confidently said that in no story has any character been harmed. If we do not consider the bruises and bumps occasionally deserved by the negative characters. Notably, the large, easy-to-read font makes the comics about Lucky Luke suitable for beginner readers, serving as their first step towards reading the novels of Fenimore Cooper and Mayne Reid. The creators of "Lucky Luke" are two brilliant humorists: the Belgian artist Morris de Bever, who worked under the pseudonym Morris, and the French René Goscinny, well-known to Russian readers for the series of stories "Little Nicholas" and for the comics about Asterix, where he also acted as a screenwriter.