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Un pueblo pequeño

A lone rider crosses the desert and reaches a small town. Four short lines, a caption and three thoughts, with simple verbs like poder and ver, each voiced and translated.

A page from La carta negra, in the El rey negro collection — an original Comigo comic, voiced line by line.

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Three comic panels in the New Mexico desert in 1883: a cowboy on a black horse rides along a dusty road past cacti, thinking to himself, and arrives at the wooden sign of the small town of Santa Roja, with a saloon behind it.
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Transcript and translation

  1. Territorio de Nuevo México, 1883New Mexico Territory, 1883
  2. Por fin... ya no queda mucho...At last... not far now...
  3. Puedo verlo...I can see it...
  4. Un pueblo pequeño...A small town...

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