Asterix has humor on a variety of levels, some of which I completely missed as a child (one of my favorite jokes as an adult: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/

Asterix has humor on a variety of levels, some of which I completely missed as a child (one of my favorite jokes as an adult: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x67wk1z https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x67wk1z). The English translation seems to be quite good at capturing that. A different style of genius in translation was by Erika Fuchs, the German translator of Walt Disney cartoons. It has been argued that she added MORE nuance to the translated language than there was in the original.