I have read the English(British) translations and the American as well. In terms of the humour and slick wordplay they seemed quite different if not poles apart

I have read the English(British) translations and the American as well. In terms of the humour and slick wordplay they seemed quite different if not poles apart. Those American editions did nothing for me, some of them almost felt like an act of sacrilege. I guess its a cultural thing -- to give a trivial example, the name Readymix just isn't as funny as Getafix. Apparently the notion of getting a fix was something that American children needed to be protected from. "He was called Readymix (the name of a British cement firm) in newspaper comics during the 1970s, as Getafix was considered inappropriate for children." [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asterix_characters#Getafix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asterix_characters#Get...