The Escape of the Dalton Brothers

“Lucky Luke,” along with “Tintin” and “Asterix,” is among the top three most popular Franco-Belgian comics in the world. The total number of copies of this series has surpassed 300 million. “Lucky Luke” has already been translated into more than... 25 languages, and it has finally arrived in Russian!Lucky Luke is a charming and fearless lone cowboy of the American Wild West. He is a true hero, even a superhero, honest and just, a protector of the weak and helpless. He always stands on the side of the law, helping local authorities combat bandits and other villains. Like a true superhero, he has his own super ability: to shoot faster than his own shadow!Each story about Lucky Luke is an exciting and highly educational comedic western that reflects real events related to the settling of the Wild West. This time, Lucky's sworn enemies, the Dalton brothers, escape from prison and return to their life of robbery. However, their main goal is to take revenge on Luke, and they are ready to do anything to achieve it.The comics about Lucky Luke are aimed at a very broad audience. Both children and older readers will be delighted by the adventurous plot, virtuoso caricature drawing, good irony, and humor found in every frame. The humor, based usually on wordplay and the principles of situational comedy, never stoops to below-the-belt jokes. And despite the fact that the characters frequently brandish guns and make bang-bang sounds, there is neither rudeness nor violence in these stories. The main character shoots only to skillfully knock weapons out of his opponents' hands. And naturally, the opponents always miss. It can be confidently said that in none of the stories does a single character get hurt. Unless we consider the bruises and bumps that the negative characters occasionally deserve.It is especially worth noting the large, easy-to-read font, which makes the comics about Lucky Luke suitable for beginner readers and serves as their first step towards reading the novels of Fenimore Cooper and Mayne Reid.The creators of “Lucky Luke” are two brilliant humorists, Belgian artist Morris de Bever, who worked under the pseudonym Morris, and Frenchman René Goscinny, well-known to Russian readers for the series of stories about “Little Nicholas” and for the Asterix comics, where he also served as a writer.