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3: The gentlemen

Title: The gentlemen
Date: August 1977

Subject / Screenplay:
Giancarlo Berardi
Drawings / Cover:
Ivo Milazzo

The book "Footprints in the wind " in the inside front cover offers a prayer to the Pleiades Indian with a drawing of Ivo Milazzo.

Who is a gentleman? It 'a person of honor? In the sense that self- and the other a certain reputation, a lot of respect, a high idea of \u200b\u200bmorality? It 's all relative. The only respect that you can have is for human dignity, and the hero, Kirk Collins, would like him so much that this had instilled courage in a terrible moment of his life. Captain during the Civil War a Confederate garrison

Design by Ivo Milazzo: the Southerners were exterminated

Yankees destroyed by the guns, he fled leaving one of its soldiers to die. The word coward eccheggia pronounced man abandoned in the nightmares of the former captain years later.

Design by Ivo Milazzo: Collins leaves his dying soldier on the ground

We are in 1870, Collins and another "revolutionary" in the south want to create a casus belli by attacking a train that would travel a general big shot. All honor to the south and to the war upsurge.

Design by Ivo Milazzo: Collins speaks with a veteran Southern

Design by Ivo Milazzo: the honor of the South

Design Ivo Milazzo: the gentlemen

To accomplish this feat they use ruthless killers old gang Quantrill, making escape from prison. The honor can also get their hands dirty for a good cause. But things do not go the right way: in reality the ambush laid by the authorities, will be addressed by the soldiers who were hiding in a wagon.

Design by Ivo Milazzo: Ken revealed the source of his rifle

Ken finds himself on that train in Omaha and will be kidnapped by the ruthless gang, after the attack on the convoy, along with a young traveler and a funny Pinkerton agent incognito. Collins will lose the honor of again abandoning the ideal companion from the clutches of killers led by ruthless Lou Hendrik.

Design by Ivo Milazzo: Lou Hendrik ruthless decrees the death of the revolutionary idealist

But the weight of another death on his conscience he will retrace his steps to help Ken, the girl and the agent to save their lives. Died in a melee with Hendrik, wounding to death. The final redemption does not absolve him from his past cowardice, seems to suggest Berardi, and the price will be life.

Two beautiful tables Ivo Milazzo: Collins discovers the lifeless body of his companion. You can appreciate the cinematic language of these sequences

A first fact to note is that Ken is very late in history: the long opening space is reserved for the presentation of the other characters, the story of a characterizing element of choral che ritroveremo spesso lungo le avventure di Lungo fucile. Ken è sì il protagonista, ma la sua storia è fatta dalle persone che incontra, di cui si mette al fianco come compagno di strada.
Tornando all'albo, devo dire che il soggetto non è molto originale, la conclusione infatti è prevedibile. Ma la sceneggiatura è ben orchestrata, il racconto ha ritmo. I disegni sono del 1975 e i tratti di Ken si stanno avvicinando sempre di più a quelli classici che conosciamo. Rimangono impresse le scene iniziali della battaglia tra nordisti e sudisti, la faccia lombrosiana da assassino del capo della banda e quella da buffo damerino di città dell'agente della Pinkerton.

Design by Ivo Milazzo: the murderess Lou Hendrik

Design by Ivo Milazzo: The agent of the Pinkerton Oake Barnum

General a history of mid-level among the many very high standards which we have become accustomed Berardi and Milazzo. In any case, given that we are in 1977, it would be interesting to compare this book with a classmate of Tex and Zagor, but I have not at hand ... I believe, with all due respect to the two newspapers that still love very much, that even this album, despite not being the best pair of Berardi, Milazzo, have a freshness and vitality in the language and script that if it were released today for the first time, no one would notice the age.