In the middle of the black

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In the middle of the black (French original title: Kid Lucky - Suivez la Flèche ) is a Lucky Luke album from 2018. The band, which again - as most recently in Martha Pfahl - contains episodes from the life of young Luke, was written by Achdé both drawn and texted. In Germany it appeared in the well-known series of the Ehapa Verlag as volume number 96.

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The volume consists mainly of one- and two-page short stories from the life of the young Lucky Luke and his friends. In a framework narration, the grown-up Luke meets an orphan boy in a village who has been left in the dark about his true origin by his foster mother. Luke remembers his own childhood and how difficult it was for his foster mother Martha to reveal the truth to him that he was an orphan himself. Luke closes his story with the advice that one day the child will ask about his origin and his teacher will be ready.

On the following pages, the boys and girls in the village are in a lot of trouble. They have to wear sailor suits against their will , can not stand the chewing of lobelia and get the riot act read when they play rodeo in the room . Once the Lucky Kid even goes to the gravedigger to have a coffin made for himself. The people, dismayed, see the horses trotting through the village in the black cart and they take off their hats. But Kid doesn't want to go to the cemetery, instead he builds a pirate ship from the coffin on the nearby river. Another time the Indian boy thinks “little cactus”, the newly arrived French barber, is a bloodthirsty warrior, because there are lots of scalps (actually wigs ) to be seen in his shop window .

On the last page the young Luke rides on his horse to sunset, with his I'm a poor lonesome on his lips - but at a gallop and with a cursing Martha on his heels, because she has seen his testimony ...

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