A Lucky Luke Adventure #32

Steam billows and feathers fly on this Morris-illustrated cover as Lucky Luke leans from the cab of a magnificent crimson locomotive — Engine No. 60 — while a thoroughly startled vulture gets blasted skyward by the train's whistle in a very undignified cloud of smoke. The sheer energy of the image, with its lovingly detailed period engine and the lone cowboy very much in charge at the throttle, makes "Rails on the Prairie" feel like the perfect collision of Wild West adventure and the roaring age of steam. A Lucky Luke Adventure #32, crafted by the Morris and Goscinny partnership, is a delightful entry in this beloved Franco-Belgian series brought to English readers by Cinebook in 2011.