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-If you haven't reread them as an adult, do yourself a favour and get started. I, too, loved them as a kid - but have found that Asterix resonates on many level
by lb1lf 7y ago
-If you haven't reread them as an adult, do yourself a favour and get started. I, too, loved them as a kid - but have found that Asterix resonates on many levels. It is definitely a comic for grown-ups too, gently mocking the grown-up world in oh so many ways.
I'll pour myself a generous helping of calvados and reread a few of the albums tonight. RIP, Albert.
- cryptonector 7y agoThey tend to have different jokes in different languages. If you can read more than one language, then read Asterix in all of them for which there are translations (or originals).
- 205guy 7y agoIt didn't just gently mock the grown-up world, some of the characters were straight-up caricatures of political figures and other famous people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asterix_characters#Caricatures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asterix_characters#Car...
- iliasku 7y ago"Alain Prost — Appears as Coronavirus, the Roman champion chariot driver in Asterix and the Chariot Race." say what now?