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Lucky Luke (1996) with Dr. Queso de la Muerte

Lucky Luke might be the fastest gun in the West, but nobody warned him about being jammed into a tiny Game Boy cartridge where his biggest foes are stiff platforming and whatever that enemy AI is trying to do. This episode of Play Comics moseys into the dusty frontier where classic European comics meet tiny Nintendo screens, occasionally in glorious Game Boy Color if you were lucky enough to live in the right place or know the right import guy. It is pixel dust, cowboy hats, and the eternal question of “Is this a faithful adaptation, or did someone just hear ‘cowboy’ and wing it?”

Riding into town for this one is the legendary Dr Queso de la Muerte from Chris’s real life internet friend group, bringing a big-brained breakdown of handheld nonsense and exactly the sort of opinions you get when people have spent way too much time thinking about comics, games, and what happens when you mash them together. Together, they’ll pick apart what the game borrows from the Lucky Luke comics, what it completely makes up, and how well it all survives the journey into a two-button wild west. Expect detours into cultural differences, cartridge weirdness, and at least one moment of “why did they design the level like this on purpose?”

So grab your favorite handheld, adjust your imaginary cowboy hat, and get ready for a trip to the Old West filtered through green-ish screens, tiny sprites, and the unstoppable force of licensing. This is an episode for anyone who ever rented a random game from the video store, stared at the box art, and thought, “Yeah, this is either going to be secretly amazing or the funniest mistake I make all weekend.”

Learn such things as:

• Which comic story beats make it into the game and which are left wandering the prairie?
• Do we even want to introduce Lucky Luke to a new audience?
• How far can a character travel when the mythology is based so much on a specific geographical area of time and space?
• And so much more!

You can find Dr. Queso on BlueSky @drquesodelamuerte.bsky.social and nowhere else unless you already know where to find him.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube, or the Play Comics website.

If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.

A big thanks to Deconstructing Comics and Xandar Radio for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who really wants French toast all of a sudden.

Lucky Luke (1998) with Insane Ian



Have you ever wanted to live the cowboy life while staying comfortably parked on your couch with a controller in hand? Well dust off that old PS1 and join us on a tumbleweed-tossed adventure into Lucky Luke, the 1998 game that lassos the comic’s wild west flair and corrals it into glorious mid-poly action.

This week, Insane Ian from the comedy music frontier rides into town to help Chris figure out whether this comic adaptation shoots straight or ends up misfiring into nostalgic absurdity. We’re mixing comic books, cowboy clichés, and just enough slapstick to keep the saloon doors swinging.

It’s part retro gaming archaeology, part cartoon chaos, and part “why did this ever happen?” Come for the shootouts, stay for the laughs, and maybe learn a thing or two about how French cartoonists conquered the Old West one pixel at a time.

Learn such things as:

• How does Lucky Luke’s cheerful swagger hides a deep existential dread about polygon counts?
• Is Jolly Jumper one of the few horses that Chris isn’t afraid of?
• Can readers today look past the very of the time racial attitudes of the Luck Luke comics?
• And so much more!

You can find Insane Ian on BlyeSky @insaneian, his music on the Insane Ian Bandcamp page, his videos on the Insane Ian YouTube page (where you can hear if he’s played FF VII), and check out the Funny Music Project that he sometimes contributes to. Also give Ian the appropriate amount of crap for not having enough videos on that new channel, Insane Ian Comics Gaming,  yet.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads,  @playcomics on YouTube or the Play Comics website.

If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.

A big thanks to Gender Pop and The Last Comic Shop for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who probably needs a hug. It’s been a long year already.

Lucky Luke - Dakota 1880, Un Hommage par Appollo, Brüno et Croix Laurence, a paraître le 31 octobre !
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Dakota, 1880. Accompagné par Hank Bully et le jeune Baldwin, Lucky Luke escorte une diligence jusqu'en Californie. Un voyage du nord à l'ouest des États-Unis, conté en sept histoires pour autant de rencontres.
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