THE DALTONS' ESCAPE
BY Morris & GoscinnY Original title: L’évasion des dalton
Original edition: © Dargaud Editeur Paris 1971 by Goscinny and Morris © Lucky Comics www.lucky-luke.com
English translation: © 2011 Cinebook Ltd
Translator: Erica Jeffrey Lettering and text layout: Imadjinn sarl Printed in Spain by Just Colour Graphic
This edition first published in Great Britain in 2011 by Cinebook Ltd 56 Beech Avenue Canterbury, Kent CT4 7TA www.cinebook.com
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 978-1-84918-091-7 THETHE DALTONS’DALTONS’ ESCESCAPEAPE
HERE’S YER LUCKY LUKE?… YOU THE ONE DRINK, LUCKY AND ONLY LUCKY LUKE… LUKE?… UH, YES…
I HAPPEN TO KNOW MM?… I’M THE WARDEN AT THE NEARBY THEY HAVE ONE DREAM: TO GET FOUR OF YOUR CLOSEST PRISON WHERE THE DALTONS REVENGE ON THE MAN WHO PUT ENEMIES: THE DALTONS… ARE LOCKED UP, CONDEMNED TO THEM THERE. THAT IS 367 YEARS EACH… THE SENTENCE TO SAY, ON YOU, WAS 500 YEARS, BUT THEY GOT LUCKY LUKE… BAH… IT REDUCED ON ACCOUNT OF GOOD BEHAVIOUR.
BUT, DON’T YOU WORRY! THEY’RE AT THAT MOMENT, WELL-GUARDED, AND THEY’VE GOT A NICE, NOT FAR AWAY… SOLID BALL AND CHAIN AROUND EACH LEG…
3 IT WAS NICE OF YEAH, ’SPECIALLY YEAH, A STILL, SHE COULD MA TO SEND US SINCE IT’S A SOUVENIR REAL FAMILY HAVE WARNED US THAT IT WAS THAT FILE… FROM ONE OF HER HEIRLOOM… IN THE CAKE… ESCAPES…
HIYA… HIC! JOE, WILLIAM, JACK HI, BOSS! EVERYTHING GO WELL LOOK SHARP! AND AVERELL… MY LITTLE ON YOUR LEAVE TO WHATTA THE WARDEN!… CAGED BIRDS! GULCH?…
CLICK CLACK CLICK
THERE! VERY WELL! I SAW ONE OF YOUR GOODNIGHT, LUCKY LUKE!! LUCKY LUKE!!! GOOD FRIENDS, LUCKY LUKE, WHO BOYS! JUST WAS PASSING THROUGH… 19,000 MORE WEEKS ’TIL YOU’RE FREE!
CLICK CLACK
… LUCKY LUKE!… JOE!… WE NEED TO ESCAPE, AND FAST! BUT… UH… THEY FEED LUCKY LUKE! YOU KNOW WE CAN’T LET PASS SUCH A GOOD US WELL HERE, AND THIS IT’S NOT OPPORTUNITY TO AVENGE IS THE ONE PLACE WHERE GOOD FOR OURSELVES!!… THE SHERIFF DOESN’T EASY, JOE… YOU TO BE IN BOTHER US… SUCH A STATE!… … OK, OK, SURE, JOE… JOE…
4 THE NEXT DAY… JOE’S YEAH… I’M NERVOUS… A-FEARED HE’S COME ON! HALLUCINATING GET TO WORK, AGAIN… MEN!
ACTUALLY… WHEN ALL THE ROCKS ARE BROKEN JOE DALTON! UP, WHAT WILL YOU DO THEN, HUH? I’VE ALREADY THERE’LL BE NO MORE WORK FOR TOLD YOU TO THE OTHER INMATES!… WE’LL HAVE RESTRAIN TO GO GET MORE ROCKS FROM YOURSELF! ANOTHER PRISON, AND THAT’S GONNA BE EXPENSIVE!
BESIDES, IT’S QUITTIN’ TIME! WE’RE ESCAPING TONIGHT… YOUR CHAINS BACK TO YOUR ARE FILED OFF… CELLS! WE JUST HAVE TO DO MINE…
YES, JOE… IN THE NEXT CELL… PASS ME I… I CAN’T FIND IT!!!… THE FILE, WHAT ARE AVERELL… YOU IN FOR?
PICK- POCKETING…
5 WE’RE ESCAPING TONIGHT SOME NICE, YUMMY NO MATTER WHAT, AND I’M GONNA SOUP!… MAKE YOU SWALLOW THIS BALL SOON AS I CAN GET IT OFF! SHUSH! EVERY- CLONK! ONE! SPLASH!! GLUG GLUG…
PITY ABOUT THE SOUP… IT SMELLED DELICIOUS…
COME ON!
NO ONE!
ALERT! PRISONERS HAVE ESCAPED!!… NOT SO WELL GUARDED, HUH?… QUICK! BEAT IT! I CAN’T, WITH THIS SHHH… BALL!!…
MEANWHILE, AT WHATTA GIVE IT HERE. GULCH… I’LL CARRY IT FOR YOU!… STRANGE… I JUST GOT A CHILL DOWN MY SPINE, JOLLY NO! JUMPER…
6 I HEAR HORSES!…
PHEW… QUICK! IN THE RIVER!… PHEW…
IT’S A LITTLE DEEP FOR YOU, DON’T MOVE… JOE… YOU’LL HAVE HERE THEY COME… TO FLOAT… GLUB… GLUB…
GLUB…
ASH SPL
JOE HID THE BEST!…
THEY DIDN’T SEE US…
GLUB… GLUB… GLUB… GLUB… GLUB…
YOU’RE GONNA BUT… IT WAS WHAT A PAIN… GET A FACEFUL WHAT HAP- WELL… I DON’T THIS BALL… IF ONLY WE HAD PENED? RIGHTLY KNOW… I COULDN’T A FILE… OF THIS BALL!!! I STEPPED ASIDE, FLOAT… AND THE BALL AND JOE THREW THEM- SELVES IN THE RIVER…
7 WHATTA GULCH… YES, MR LUKE… WE FOLLOWED THEM WITHOUT SUCCESS… TEXAS WE NEED IS BIG AND THEY MAY HAVE CROSSED TO CATCH THEM INTO ANOTHER STATE… BEFORE THEY I WONDER IF WE’LL DO ANY MIS- EVER CAPTURE CHIEF, JOLLY THEM… JUMPER…
WE’VE BEEN WALKING PEOPLE WHEN ALL NIGHT, JOE! WHAT IF ARE STILL ARE WE WE TAKE A LITTLE REST? ASLEEP… WE NEED GONNA GUNS AND EAT? HORSES… NOT YET! WE’RE COMING UP ON A TOWN…
I’M GONNA THROW THIS BALL THROUGH THE WINDOW… BUT… JOE… LOOK!
AND SOON… LUCKY FOR US WE I ALWAYS FOUND THESE FOUR FORGET THIS HORSES… CHAIN!
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