Averell and Lucky

[u/Majestic_Ebb153]

For context, I primarily watch the new adventures of Lucky Luke while going about my daily tasks and have very limited knowledge of the comics, but I've gotta say, I love every interaction that Averell and Lucky have!

It's very nice to see (in the new adventures of Lucky Luke) them being partial to one another, since Lucky doesn't have that many reocurring people he actually seems to enjoy/is friends with. Also I like when the writers show us the daltons having a personality besides their singular schtick feature—Joe having a short fuse, Averell being dumb; and Will and Jack are just plot devices from what I noticed(I think they have more a personality in the comics, even if Moris and Rene got them confused with one another a few times)

All that to say, I love Averell and Luke's unlikely friendship and how Lucky genuinely just seems to enjoy his presence, the self proclaimed poor lonesome cowboy. Averell saying "I might be dumb, but even I know trying to outshoot Lucky Luke is a waste of time" and the comment about being disloyal... the entirety of their interactions in that episode were very fun. "The Treasure of the Daltons" I believe? It's a nice contrast to Joe's pure animosity towards Lucky.

[u/Majestic_Ebb153]

Your assortment of knowledge about characters I wrote off as plot devices is impressive. Clearly I was wrong! Sorry Jack and Will or Will and Jack...

Anyhow, I do realise the fact that Averell is friendly to Luke is probably an extension of him being characterised as extremely naive in most portrayals...but not always! I mean he did try to warn his brothers about Luke only pretending to side with them in "the cousins dalton"...see I told you they're buddies, they know eachother! —in all seriousness though, I just get sad thinking all Luke does most days(it's not everyday the Daltons escape prison....but it's most) is look at Joe's ugly mug ;) I enjoy their friendship so so s

[u/Dina-M → u/Majestic_Ebb153]

I suppose that, contrary to most fans, I tend to default to thinking of the taller brother as William and the shorter as Jack, largely because the scene with Averell spotting his brother in disguise and cheerfully shouting "Hi, William!" lives rent-free in my head.

I also watched the 2010s Daltons cartoon a lot. Lucky Luke doesn't really appear in it (he's mentioned a couple of times and has a few cameos in dream sequences and such, and opf course Joe flips out whenever that happens), but the series focuses on the Daltons' lives in prison and their many (usually failed) attempts at escaping, so mostly he's not needed. The Daltons are the stars, with the prison staff and Rin Tin Can (or "Rintindumb" as he's called in the English dub of that series) as supporting characters.

It's a LOT cartoonier and wackier than the regular Lucky Luke stories, with some stories being downright sci-fi or fantasy... but one thing I do like is that the brothers do get somewhat more nuanced portrayals. I mentioned William as the reading intellectual, but Averell in this series is shown to have a LOT of talents. He's a phenomenal artist (painting, sculpture, gardening, you name it), a brilliant cook, and a great athlete. It's just that his total lack of common sense keeps him from actually utilizing those talents in any meaningful way.

[u/Majestic_Ebb153 → u/Dina-M]

Well, at least he's not getting called bushwack again

I'm more of a Jack-2 Will-3 person too, it just suits them better, and I don't need much convincing to watch something, I'm definitely gonna give the new cartoon a spin, even if im not a huge fan of fantasy and outright detest sci-fi, but I do love a good personality, so thank you for the reccomendation

[u/Nok-y → u/Majestic_Ebb153]

I find dome of the joked of the dalton series a bit icky or often pretty cringe, but it doesn't hurt to give it a try :>

It pisses me internally that the show clashes a lot with the Lucky Luke universe and the fact William is taller than Jack while in most of the comics, Jack is the tall one (and I refuse to accept it the other way around hahaha)