Two years after "Un cowboy à Paris", Jul and Achdé are back for their third album by Lucky Luke, which will be released this Friday: "Un cowboy dans le coton".
An opus that could surprise readers, in more than one way.
Two years after Paris, it is in cotton that Lucky Luke finds himself in the new album released this Friday (Dargaud editions), still with Jul and Achdé in the script and drawing.
The most anticipated comic book of the end of the year,
Un cowboy dans le coton
has a circulation of 400,000 copies and should again surprise readers, in more than one way.
After Paris, which he visited for the first time, Lucky Luke discovers in this new adventure a new country unexplored by him until then: Louisiana.
The famous vigilante is invited there after having inherited from a secret admirer of a cotton plantation.
Lucky Luke is determined to bequeath it to his decades-long black farm workers, but other white planters around do not hear it that way.
A black marshall that really existed to the rescue
Fortunately, Lucky Luke is going to be able to count on the help of Bass Reeves, a black marshall who really existed and is featured on the cover.
"We weren't going to be the great savior, who was suddenly going to abolish the questions of race and segregation. That's why we went looking in History for Bass Reeves, the first great black marshall. who arrested in his career more than 3,000 criminals ", explains screenwriter Jul, at the microphone of Europe 1." He was a bit of a precursor of Lucky Luke, he shot almost faster than his shadow with both hands ", continues he at the microphone of Europe 1.
This black hero is not the only novelty of these new adventures, since Lucky Luke can here count on the unexpected help of the Dalton ... against their will, of course!