Rita Candela. On the banks of Joan Mundet, it is the second album of the adventure of a Spanish orphan in the hard American deserts, where death chases from any angle and aridity dominates everything

Joan mundet The second adventure of Rita Candela, On the banks of luckPublished by Cartem Comics; The first story with Rita took place 2021entitled Under the steel skywhere the young woman had been kidnapped by some Indians, who massacred her caravan and released by Busc Horace In the desert of Sound.

In that first story of our protagonist, Rita asks Horace to swear to satisfy her mother’s last desire: take her in a remote place away from the Colorado river, to meet her uncle Vicente Candela, wins, the only living relative of the protagonist. Here the Apache, the native fauna and the suffocating southern desert of some young United States of America must avoid.

The plot

In Rita Candela. On the banks of luckThe orphan born in the province of Barcelona will be only without his savior Horace Bayoualthough in the company of his “family”: the Tito Candela, Alma Stocker y Gus Stanton in the inn of Jiloca passNext to the boats that allow you to cross from one coast to another from the river.

The events that are happening in the four walls of the new house of Rita That the girl begins to feel that something is not going well in her new family. The fact that a horse appears dead in a well near or that the garden is often discovered, just like the grave of his beloved Horace, further complicates things.

In this situation, the work of Alma as a healer and medium means that Rita accompanied the other woman at home to sell her products and attends her sessions to deceive the suspicion that believes in the powers of Mrs. Stocker, a free soul in a very closed society.

In a Not very western to useWhere nothing is what it seems, nor are they all those who say they are, the figure of Rita rises like a bulwark of heroicity in an unsecured place, which has its sheriff, the plains of the southern United States, the procedures and the great adventures.

The author

Catalan Joan mundet born in Castellar del Vallés (Barcelona) and studied Fine artsAlthough, in turn, his work in the ninth art began with the age of the majority. This author is one of the national representatives in the comic, such as Cabrusand worked with large European publishers, as well as in the design of the adaptations of the Captain Alatriste to the comic.

The narrative To Rita Candela. On the banks of luck Is agileThen he is solving the plot with precision and clarity, where he knows Combines with large action scenesvivid and intense, With pages where the drawing is the only one presentDo not be the necessary conversations among the characters to develop the script and that the reader takes it ever.

This time the drawing by Joan Mundet keeps his own Excellent qualityShowing the spectacularity in the cartoons to which he has become accustomed to his readers, with his innate bold and ability to summarize great doses of action on a single page. Once again, both the Entry to color Are applied by optimal form.

The desert, as one of the great protagonists from the first Spaniards who admitted him knew part of the road to the principals such as the day of the dead, also mortifies Rita Candela and the rest of the characters on the banks of luck. The colors used by the author know how to reflect the immensity of the desert.

The daronic color of the desert turns into various types of blue, purple and black when the night falls and even large snowfalls, identifying the cold that puts the dust in the dark. These changes in the color palette are highlighted with Great use That Joan Mundet does of the Contraddiintensifying the cartoons in which they use them.

Edition

Rita Candela. On the rise of luck, it belongs to the collection Spanish bombsPublished by Cartem Comics In axisA colorwith measures of 29×21 and a length of 102 pagesWith some interviews with the characters as extra, who are a great contribution to the volume, as if it were a red carpet in which the stars of the work is asked.

In 2025With Cartem Comics in a new stage in the solo, he presented how his first works in the present Rita Candela. On the banks of luckSet in the American West of the nineteenth century, as well as Charley’s war. I and the World War II.

In the aggregate Jiloca, where the wind brings with it echoes from the past and the earth maintains the forgotten secrets, a mystery is managed in the shadows. This western section is witnessing inexplicable events that challenge logic and the well -known.

Each whisper and every gaze hide something bigger, something that remains hidden under the surface. In this place, the boundaries between the truth and the lie are blurred and what seems to be safe can turn into a lethal threat.

A corner lost in the West

In the aggregate and dusty landscape of the passage of Jiloca, a stop on the platform in the heart of the West, a story develops that is not formed with the traditional limits of a genre. The aridity of the landscape not only reflects the physical environment, but also the emotional tensions and secrets that bound the characters.

The heat of the desert is not only felt in the air, but also in the relationships intertwined in this forgotten corner, where calm is fragile as the dry earth that covers it.

A veteran gold seeker and the young woman who brings more questions than answers

Tito Candela, known as Vince, is a golden seeking veteran who, after years of adventures, has found in the passage of Jiloca a refuge that is quickly disturbed by the dark secrets of what surrounds him.

His partner Alma Stoker, healer and spiritist with mysterious skills, generates both admiration and distrust, especially in Rita, Vince’s nephew.

Rita arrives at the pass sent by Horace, a messenger whose bond with the family is uncertain. His arrival unleashes a series of strange events that drag her to discover the hidden secrets of the place.

As he explores, he faces the whispers at night, objects that disappear and interrupted the conversations, which leads it to suspect that something much more dangerous is hidden behind the quiet facade of the passage.

The presence of Gus Stanton, a stranger whose identity is a mystery, adds more uncertainty. His reserved attitude causes the distrust of Rita, intensifying the atmosphere of secrets and tensions between the inhabitants of the passage of Jiloca.

A story on the border between the West and psychological thriller

The western classic, with its atmosphere of loneliness, survival and justice in a territory without law, is intertwined with the elements of psychological astigo, in which the real battlefield is not the duels of the sun, but the minds and hearts of the protagonists.

Each character, from Gus Stanton reserved for the spiritist Alma Stoker, represents a key piece in a puzzle that Rita Candela, the new arrival, is forced to solve. But the answers do not arrive easily and the cost of discovering the truth could be higher than what it imagines.