A Lucky Luke Adventure #17

The cover of this seventeenth Lucky Luke Adventure sets an immediately striking tone: two figures in red work busily at an enormous skull-shaped rock formation while a vulture perches atop it, dripping with dark humor, and Lucky Luke himself peers in from the upper corner. Morris and Goscinny's long-running western series always balanced wit with genuine frontier atmosphere, and this image captures both qualities perfectly. "Apache Canyon" promises the kind of sun-baked, slyly comedic adventure that has made this beloved series a cornerstone of European comics.