Asterix comics (the best ones, with Goscinny) are parodies about the French society in the 60s and 70s and France's stereotypical view of its European neighbors

Asterix comics (the best ones, with Goscinny) are parodies about the French society in the 60s and 70s and France's stereotypical view of its European neighbors, so it's not hard to think that a lot of it is lost in translation.