The new Asterix will be in Portugal. Pic related is the preview cover.
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Merch is a different thing. I thought about the comic side. You have some additional stuff that are more meta books or activity books.
The only spin-off you have is Idefix and that is a constant kid stuff.
Nice to see such diverse representation
How are those newest Asterix books anyway?
Fine.
Just fine. No bite, but fine.
Huh. Can't believe it finally happened. I read all of the books when I was a kid, and always wondered why there wasn't one set here. Neat.
Its kinda funny how they are in Italia several times and noone manages to murder them.
They are good. Not great like Asterix in Helvetia but similar to early Goscinny or Uderzo good ones.
That one was released shortly before the invasion and aged like milk with the "lel they aren't that bad" message. But the orange haired one is hot.
Probably because not enough knowledge to come up with a story set there and not in spain again.
Or enough ideas or stuff that sounds as a better story so you put Portugal on the back log.
It's amazing that this series is still insanely popular and widely available to but in Poland. But it really needs a compendium. I am not buying all 35+ books one at the time.
What are you talking about? They are pre-soviet, pre-Russian Slavs, Russians or Ukrainians.
Where did it age like milk? You could say that it is too much girl power because it was released when the girl power was trending.
They're Ukrainians, though
There are some omnibus collections. But i only know English, French and German ones
Goscinny and Uderzo> The newest books> Uderzo.
Uderzo solo is pretty much total garbo aside from Asterix and the Flying Carpet and Asterix and the Black Gold.
The new show looks amazing too, we are definitely winning
youtu.be
I disagree with you. The great divide and the actress are really good. Even Son of Asterix is good, even if it feels more like a cartoon or movie. Secret Weapon isnt that bad.
something a goth would say
Asterix animation stuff is really good. The only problem i got with the Netflix series is that it is a series based upon only one book. Feels like they will bloat it up?
Or from Cathay!
No as I wrote in my fucking post, it was supposed to be like "Hey Russia is a pretty cool country amirite, why dont we all love each other?"
But hey the Russians would probably hate the truth bomb of their women being the competent ones while the guys are drunk fucking idiots.
The comic juggles two stories so its fine, since it was underdeveloped there (especially the main plot next to the druid plot).
nice. my portuguese grandpa would've love to hear that.
Okay yeah, Asterix and Son is great too. The rest are pretty bad, though.
I enjoyed this movie right up until like the last ten or fifteen minutes.
They did a great job adding obstacles, but not that great a job resolving them.
No, it is all about Amazons. They are not really Russian. They are mostly East European. You even could insist they are polish.
Do you have any proof from the comic that it is Russian? Not mythic Amazons and the Roman east expansion?
But we already got that story in the movie and they had to put another story into it.
Great Divide is a good one too.
It is the DNA of Asterix that it ends with a big fight and everything is resolved.
Are Kajko and Kokosz still popular?
See, that's the thing. It always ends with a big fight, but HOW they get to the fight is the interesting part.
The book was very clever because it made it so Asterix couldn't just have a big punch up. First the slaves had to be freed, and then there were civilians that it would be wrong to punch up. So they weaponized Cacofonix to nonviolently (arguably, given Cacofonix's music) drive the civilians out and replace them with very punchable soldiers.
The movie eliminates the Cacofonix possibility and I was like "Wow, it's not going to play out like the book, they need to find another way to drive the civilians out."
Then they just kinda... forget their earlier reservations and have a punch up, just navigating AROUND the civilians. It added a new wrinkle, but didn't really resolve it.
I didnt really like the white iris, it was like two plots mixes together and neither achieved anything memorable.
Typical Kalashnikova, she was off like a shot!
Kek
Modern stories have really unsatisfying, rushed endings imo.
Yes, yes but have any of you considered Alesia?
I miss those simple days of my mum taking me to the library on the weekend and me getting loads of Asterix and reading them all weekend, even better was when you got the big anthologies of six stories because it still only counted as taking one book out. Also always rented the animated films. Simpler times ;-;
I found it the weakest of the new Asterix books, yeah. So much of the plot happens just because.
Isivertiuus has the entire village eating out of the palm of his hand, and he totally abandons it because Asterix was snarky to him once? The villagers all go back to normal in the end because... because they just do? I can appreciate the bigger focus on satire, but it was still pretty weak overall.
Wait it's a series? Thought it was a movie
No, not really. It is mosly seen as the "communist ripoff of Asterix", because communist Poland had no access to Western media, keep that in mind. And why should we entertain a ripoff, when now we have an access to a real thing?
Did they do anything interesting with the premise?
I don't know what that is.
Nobody knows what that is.
Stop asking about Alesia.
It's kinda wild that there is a german Nazi rewrite/ripoff of Asterix.
Show me
You even could insist they are polish
There was a time in Polish history when nobility claimed to be Sarmatians. In Polish "Sarmata" usually refers to that period rather than the ancient people. Interesingly it's also the winged hussar period.
They never were popular to my knowledge.
Asterix was created in 1959, so if there is a Nazi rewrite it's probably a fake/troll.
It's the Rolf Kauka translation of 1965. Kauka got sued over the nazi shit he put in and lost the rights, so he tried to make his own version with Fritze Blitz und Dunnerkiel/Siggi und Babarras. Kaukas apparently eventually figured out that he gotta make money to live, so his Fix und Foxi was a pretty okay Mickey Mouse-comic equivalents.
Ok. I interpreted you wrong. The fight and destruction of the building is more important than solving the problem by cleverness.
Guess more action was needed.
Sarmata
Thanks anon. That book is at least trying to show that it is more focused on myths in that region than pure East European flavour.
The Lutetia part really became too big and the Asterix outsmarting was a little bit too rushed (unlogical). And it was a little bit too much soothsayer.
Well put.
It was from a West Germany, Nato, conservative view.
Goths belonged to a now extinct division of the Germanic people. Eastern Germanic the same category that encompassed Vandals and Suevians, these groups originated in Sweden and spread out from there throughout the Migration Period. Geographically adjacent peoples like “Amazons” would be ancient fair featured Iranics.
It’d be a mistake to understand these groups as “Russians”