Mother Dalton

"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 exceeded 300 million. "Lucky Luke" has already been translated into more than 25 languages, and it has finally appeared in Russian!

Lucky Luke is a charming and fearless lone cowboy from the time of conquering 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 to confront bandits and other villains. Like a true superhero, he has his super ability: 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 development of the Wild West.

In the fifth book of the series, Luke learns that his archenemies, the Dalton brothers, have an old mother. The seemingly harmless elderly lady turns out to be the leader of the entire criminal family and causes Luke a lot of trouble.

The comics about Lucky Luke are designed for the widest audience. Both children and older readers will be delighted by the adventurous storyline, the virtuoso caricature drawing, and the kind irony and humor found in literally every frame. The humor, which is usually based on wordplay and principles of situational comedy, never descends below the belt. And despite the fact that the characters often swing guns and go bang-bang, there is neither rudeness nor violence in these stories. The main character shoots only to skillfully knock the weapon out of the opponents' hands with a precise shot. And the opponents, of course, always miss. It can confidently be said that in none of the stories does a single character get harmed. Except for the bruises and bumps that the negative heroes sometimes justly receive.

It is particularly 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 Maine Reid.

The creators of "Lucky Luke" are two brilliant humorists, Belgian artist Maurice de Bevere, who worked under the pseudonym Morris, and Frenchman René Goscinny, well known to Russian readers from the "Little Nicholas" stories and from the comics about Asterix, where he also acted as a scriptwriter.