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Lucky Luke – Volume 34 – gags over plot this time…

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

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Lucky Luke Volume 34 – The Daltons; Always On The Run By Goscinny and Morris Cinebook “A general amnesty puts the Daltons back on the streets, something Lucky Luke isn’t happy about. And, to make it worse, they seem to have become model citizens. It’s all an act, though, and it doesn’t take long for [...]

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The (comics) Wild, Wild West – Lucky Luke

Friday, May 11, 2012

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Lucky Luke Directed by James Huth Starring Jean Dujardin, Michael Youn, Sylvie Testud, Daniel Prevost, Alexandra Lamy Lucky Luke, the lonesome cowboy who can drawn and shoot faster than his shadow has been around for a long time – 1946, in fact, since the great Morris first drew his Wild West hero. Over the decades [...]

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Lucky Luke – bringing gambling to the West

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

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Lucky Luke Volume 33: The One-Armed Bandit Written by Bob de Groot, art by Morris Cinebook “Brothers Adolph and Arthur Caille are mechanical geniuses. They’ve just created one of the first slot machines and have presented it to their local senator, a notorious gambler. Much taken with the device, he agrees to send them on [...]

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Lucky Luke – back to the beginning

Monday, February 27, 2012

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Lucky Luke Volume 32: Rails On The Prairie By Morris and Goscinny Cinebook “The First Transcontinental Railroad is stopped dead near its starting point, both in the East and in the West. Repeated injunctions from the president of the “Transcontinental Railroad” are having no effect: His workers are constantly prevented from working by agents of [...]

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Lucky Luke …. but with a difference

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

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Lucky Luke Volume 31 – Lucky Luke Versus The Pinkertons By Daniel Pennac and Tonino Benacquista, illustrated by Achdé Cinebook Another couple of months and another volume of Cinebook’s English reprints of Lucky Luke comes out – but this time there’s a big difference. The names on the top aren’t Goscinny and Morris, as this [...]

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1,2,3,4…. The Daltons are back to annoy Lucky Luke

Thursday, September 29, 2011

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Lucky Luke Volume 30 – The Daltons’ Escape By Morris & Goscinny Cinebook Regular as clockwork, the next volume of Lucky Luke appears. It’s so nice to be able to say that, and hopefully by now you’ll be well aware of how much fun it is to be able to settle down every other month [...]

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Oh The Grand Old Duke Of Russia….

Thursday, June 30, 2011

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Lucky Luke Volume 29: The Grand Duke By Morris & Goscinny Cinebook In this latest volume of the adventures of the man who shoots faster than his own shadow, Lucky Luke finds himself called into public service as the Secretary of State requests his presence as a guide for visiting Grand Duke Leonid, in the [...]

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Lucky Luke – The Dalton Cousins

Monday, May 9, 2011

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Lucky Luke – Volume 28 – The Dalton Cousins By Goscinny & Morris Cinebook Lucky Luke; the fastest (and coolest) cowboy in the west, is a classic character for a good reason. Goscinny & Morris created a perfect template in Luke, allowing them to create stories where every volume relies on some new situation or [...]

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Monsters on the Mexican border, comics vigilantes in York, lonesome cowboys in the West and George Lucas

Friday, July 2, 2010

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After reporting on Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist earlier this week, here’s a round-up of some of the other genre-related, geek-friendly footage I managed to cram into my annual bash at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (it wasn’t all poncing around in a beret watching black and white films about human tragedy from Hungary, you know), [...]

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From our Continental Correspondent – Lucky Luke rides again

Friday, September 18, 2009

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Two new teasers were released last week for James Huth’s upcoming movie, Lucky Luke, based on Maurice De Bevere’s comic about the lonesome cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow.  The teasers focus on two of the main baddies from the movie : Calamity Jane and Billy The Kid.  Even though both characters are based [...]

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From our Continental Corresponent – Belgian Comics this Summer

Monday, July 6, 2009

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With summer finally here, and vacation on our minds, you may want to spare a few days for a stay in Belgium, and visits these quite unique exhibitions that are currently on… In the Foundation Raymond Leblanc, Avenue Paul-Henri Spaak,7 in Brussels, a small but very nice exhibition tells of René Goscinny’s years in Brussels, [...]

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From Our Continental Correspondent – Lucky Luke is alive!

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

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Eurocomics heroes are seldom superheroes, and the lack of capes, powers and similar visual Sturm Und Drang have quite often deemed hem less suitable for a general audience film, much unlike X-Men, Spider-Man or Hellboy.  Sure, there’s Steven Spielberg’s much awaited Tintin adaptation, and there are lots of smaller-scale projects, aimed at a more local [...]

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