Title: Murder in Washington
Date: September 1977
Subject / Screenplay:
Giancarlo Berardi
Drawings / Cover:
Ivo Milazzo
And the number 4 cup Berardi-Milazzo square the first bomb of the series. Murder in Washington is one of the books that I like better for several reasons. E 'revolutionary in terms of graphics, for some choices that we will see, the story is very compelling and is on two completely different scenarios, Ken Berardi does express the important concepts of his way of seeing the world and finally happens, the first fact which will mark a turning point in the following events. But first things first.
In the previous issue, I gentlemen, we left Ken traveling on a train headed east. Here we discover the final destination of Washington, the capital, and the beautiful table Our opening shows at the station with a look a bit 'dazed. Ken is pictured dressed as a trapper, complete with a rifle, saddle bag: her figure is superimposed on the two horizontal cartoons under the title, creating a detachment from the background noise and chaos of the station.
Ken is in Washington to meet with a historical character really existed, Donehogawa Ely, an Iroquois (who graduated in engineering and law) that President Grant has given the post of Commissioner of the Office for Indian Affairs. Ken has to urge him to appoint an Indian agent in the reserve is located in Fort Dakota Smith. In ultmi periods, in fact, there have been continuous provocations by whites against the Dakota with the intent to cause a new Indian war. Reason? The usual ... the recent discovery in the reserves of mineral deposits that are coveted by companies ...
Donehogawa met Ken and he does partecpare a parliamentary session during which the Commissioner about the meeting. And this brings an extraordinary sequence of tables, just to the drawings, as for content, culminating in the tables:
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| Design by Ivo Milazzo: Eli Donehogawa pronounce his act charge of the classroom parliamentary |
Queste sono tavole storiche: per la prima volta nella storia della Bonelli, un unico disegno copre completamente due pagine. E l'eccezionalità grafica è giustificata dalla grandiosità delle tavole che abbraccia tutta l'aula parlamentare, partendo dal primo piano del pubblico rumoreggiante nel loggione, per scendere sui deputati negli scranni fino a Donehogawa che, davanti alla Presidenza, in piedi sta declamando il suo discorso. Le parole del Commissario sono importanti ed esplicite: accusa gli Stati Uniti d'America di genocidio verso il popolo rosso .
Di grande pathos è anche la tavola successiva, più tradizionale graficamente, ma di enorme impatto per la scena rappresentata e le parole pronunciate Ken:
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| Design by Ivo Milazzo: Ken ashamed to be an American citizen |
The reader's heart beats with that of Ken, blurted out to the indignation of be represented by individuals who can not be called men. And 'the indignation of the common man, who may not have studied, but know the values \u200b\u200bof honesty and loyalty. Each vignette of this table is memorable for expressions that take Milazzo is the face of Ken, the strength and clarity of words that makes him say Berardi, and finally to the output of only contemptuous of the classroom that can dire di avere una dignità.
In tre sole tavole sono condensati quindi molti sentimenti e molte idee di Ken che sono sufficienti per far innamorare il lettore al personaggio.
Rispetto all'interpretazione grafica di Ken, si può notare che il tratto di Milazzo è evoluto rispetto ai numeri passati: c'è ancora qualche isolata vignetta in cui l'espressione del viso di Lungo fucile è un po' incerta ma, in generale, si può dire che Ken abbia raggiunto la sua rappresentazione grafica classica. Anzi, in questo numero ho osservato che lo spettro di espressioni diverse assunte dal viso di Ken è molto ampio. L'abbiamo già visto nella tavola in cui Ken sbotta al Parlamento, ma ce ne sono altre lungo tutto l'albo che rivelano several different moods. Here are some:
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| Design by Ivo Milazzo |
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| Design by Ivo Milazzo |
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| Design by Ivo Milazzo |
back to the story, the unscrupulous businessmen in cahoots with corrupt politicians are murdered Donehogawa Ely: This is a license that takes Berardi as the Commissioner of Indian Affairs actually died di morte naturale. In ogni caso Ken viene accusato dell'omicidio e finisce in galera, dalla quale viene tirato fuori da Oake Barnum, l'agente della Pinkerton che Ken aveva conosciuto lungo il viaggio in treno. A queso punto c'è una bella sequenza in cui un Ken triste esprime la sua difficoltà nei confronti dell'ambiente cittadino.
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| Disegno di Ivo Milazzo: Ken è solo |
C'è poi una tavola interessante in cui Ken rifiuta la pietà di una ragazza di città (la stessa che aveva conosciuto lungo il viaggio in treno) che le si sta per concedere, interessata più che a lui, alla figura di Trapper Ken is brave of him. Pleasant, the final conclusion ...
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| Design by Ivo Milazzo: Ken rejects the amorous advances of an attractive city girl |
Meanwhile a common criminal is caught and charged with the murder of Ely Donehogawa Ken knows that the real culprit is not the scapegoat but is silenced for ever ....
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| Design by Ivo Milazzo: false guilty of is eliminated from the police |
Ken has nothing to do in Washington: the bad experience makes him return to Montana very bitter. Unfortunately, disasters do not end there. The real murderess, Donald Welsh, took the clothes of the new agent Dakota Indian reservation, with the intent to unleash hidden, due to continued provocation, the ire of the Dakota tribe, whose chief Ohiewa in the following vignette, we show very skeptical about the possible coexistence with whites:
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| Design by Ivo Milazzo: Ken smoke the calumet with the Dakota Chapter Ohiewa |
In greeting the Indian chief, Ken used to the first Once its classic greeting
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| Design Ivo Milazzo: So long! |
The provocations of Welsh are successful, the Dakota fall into the trap and the army, while imagining the dirty game that is happening, threatening surgery. The excuse infamous executable orders, which the military often washed false consciousness while losing the dignity of men, causing irreparable damage.
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| Design by Ivo Milazzo: The commander of Fort Smith does the bidding |
battle ensues and is a hell, brilliantly represented by Ivo Milazzo that always stands out in its ability to draw scenes of this kind.
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| Design by Ivo Milazzo: The Dakota attacked |
In particular, the following table recalls those of the seventeenth century Dutch paintings which were represented in complex battle scenes.
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| Design by Ivo Milazzo: the battle rages |
Despite the chaos that is generated, Ken is able to distinguish Welsh, pursues him, but the catch is affected by treachery. The final vignette is very worrying. Ken lay on the ground with a bullet in the body, while Welsh leaves undisturbed a horse.
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| Design by Ivo Milazzo: Ken ground |
This sticker is very important. Represents the first breakthrough in the history of Ken. One of the innovations introduced by the series is this: the protagonist is not always equal to itself as happens in other collections Bonelli. Happen because of events that leads to the change, sometimes radically, the life of Ken. On the other hand is what happens in real life to us all: change over time because of the facts happen to us more or less important. From this point of view, like many others, Ken is one of us.
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