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KP 6: Blood on the stars That

Title: Blood on the stars
Date: November 1977

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

In the inside cover of a very sweet song from Acoma, with the usual pattern of Ivo Milazzo heading for "Footprints in the wind "

Design by Giancarlo Alessandrini

After two numbers masterpiece, Chemako and murder in Washington , Berardi fall ill: he is human and sometimes he makes some mistake. "Blood on the Stars" is an accredited definitely disappointing, far below the standard which the author has used so far and the pearls that will give us many more times along the necklace.
The subject is a classic: Ken, after spending the winter in hunting hides, arrives in the spring of 1872 in Paradise City, a city where the law does not because there is no sheriff and lord it where the cowboys of the local boss, Maverick, a large farmer and landowner. After being robbed of money obtained by selling their hides, and especially after witnessing the murder of a child, Ken accepts the offer to become Marshall, offered to the small town cowardly bourgeoisie, frightened both by the excesses of the cowboys but attracted to the other from their money. Even if you've seen, the ingredients for a fascinating history through a clever script and there would be measured. Unfortunately, instead we read a story trivial, sometimes rhetoric and in which you will discover a Ken unrecognizable at times.

Design by Giancarlo Alessandrini

Long Rifle in fact, wearing the clothes of marshall, he becomes even arrogant, always has the truth in his pocket and slams it with arrogance in front of everyone, has no doubts. It seems almost an infallible superhero, an avenging angel with courage and that defeats the security group of bullies cowboys arresting Maverick, facing the most dangerous of the herdsmen in a duel and almost medieval style of Sherlock Holmes to solve the case of the assassination of boy. Too much even for Tex Willer , let alone our Ken.
Even Ken's face is always portrayed with a serious frown and with eyes of ice, never a smile, even when there are rare and short scenes with a minimum of irony, thanks to Otis , the Classic old man a bit 'crazy so many western movies. Speaking of the drawings, the first evidence of the great Alessandrini is very small. Suddenly shows an unconvincing Ken always different, not expressive, sometimes with a Mascelloni which gives it a hard tone. Alessandrini is looking for a style in portraying Ken but it will only future issues that will be entrusted.

drawings Giancarlo Alessandrini

A register to be considered then a parenthesis, as it probably was a stopgap to fill a month on newsstands, no connection with the continuity and without their own value and character, waiting to find Ken drawn by Milazzo on the heels of Welsh, the murderess of Ely Donehogawa we met in a Murder Washington.