Side point... one rare exception I can think of: The Asterix comic books in English maintained and even in some cases enhanced the humor of the original French.

Side point... one rare exception I can think of: The Asterix comic books in English maintained and even in some cases enhanced the humor of the original French. The puns were completely reinvented, and fit the context so well that one often forgets they were translations (well, on the other hand, I guess they weren't faithful translations so much as they were paraphrases).