The 33rd Asterix Book is Released Today!!!!!!!

[Rambuchan]

Or when they went to America with the Vikings All those gobble-gobble-gobbles everywhere Not a patch on wild boar!

 

[MCdread]

Maybe this is a good time to revive this old classic.

 

[kryszcztov]

Could the ending of the fear of the sky falling be a subtle reference that this is the last album? The gauls loosing their fear would be an autobiographic signature of Uderzo himself, meaning that he too has lost his fear and is ready to go meet Goscinny...

YES !!! Exactly what I thought but I couldn't put into words. This album's title is very epic in a way, and that is why I expected something very special (as you can see in my post above). But indeed, you even think of the end of an era for our Gaul friends.

Anyway, the fans have tried to found hints like this in each of the 3 or 4 albums, and then he announces that is working on another one.

I saw him in interviews recently, and he said he would continue until he cannot do it anymore or until he dies. He's already drawing in a different way due to his age (position of the hand over the table...). He also told some children that he wouldn't allow anyone to continue the series after him, so basically he is the only master aboard and it will end with him.

Corsica is good. Goobles are great ! He calls them "glou-glou" (read : "gloo-gloo") in French.

 

[MCdread]

I can't really pick a favourite of mine, but lately I've been very fond of Astérix and Caesar's Laurels, I always laugh out loud when the Vikings in Astérix and the Normans say they only tremble when they get paludism in the summer, smile whenever the egyptian architect of Astérix and Cleopatra arrives at the village, greets the gauls and the druid replies that it is an alexandrin. I had to translate to french what the egyptian guy had said and count the syllables to understand what was going on. That's why I always say there there are several layers in the dialogues and the scenes, and each of them provides humour and fun to people from very different ages and cultural influences.
And many, many more gags and scenes.

 

[Steph]

Lately, I read again the Olympics game and discovered a pun I had never noticed before!

 

[mrtn]

Maybe this is a good time to revive this old classic.

Damn, that's older than time!

I always laugh out loud when the Vikings in Astérix and the Normans say they only tremble when they get paludism in the summer

Paludism? My confusion is probably due to both language and learning.

@Steph: Corsica is good, but I think there's some stuff in it that is very local, i e I don't know enough about Corsica to see all the jokes.

 

[MCdread]

Damn, that's older than time!
Paludism? My confusion is probably due to both language and learning.

Hmm... Paludism = malaria. Or not?

 

[Rambuchan]

@Steph: Corsica is good, but I think there's some stuff in it that is very local, i e I don't know enough about Corsica to see all the jokes.

Yeah Corsica was the crappest of the lot. I mean the real bottom of the cesspit. Utter trash. I'd hunt down and castrate anyone who worked on that one!

 

[MCdread]

@Steph: Corsica is good, but I think there's some stuff in it that is very local, i e I don't know enough about Corsica to see all the jokes.

As long as you can tell the difference between a wild pig and a corsican tribe leader, you should be alright.

 

[Steph]

During my time in the air force (I spend 10 months there), for one month, I was in a room of 20 people, among them 12 Corsicans...

Right from Asterix in Corsica!

 

[Rambuchan]

Now I am quoting posters who no longer exist here. (On the first page of that bumped thread I recognised maybe 3 names at most.

Asterix the Gaul
Asterix in Spain
Asterix in Britain
Asterix and Cleopatra
Asterix and the Goths
Asterix the Gladiator
Asterix the Legionary
Asterix in Switzerland
Asterix and the Big Fight
Asterix and the Roman Agent
The Mansions of the Gods
Asterix at the Olympic Games
Asterix and the Laurel Wreath
Asterix and the Soothsayer
Asterix and the Golden Sickle
Asterix and the Great Crossing
Asterix and the Cauldron
Asterix and the Chieftain's Shield
Asterix and Caesar's Gift
Asterix and the Normans
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (story book)
Obelix and Co.
Asterix and the Banquet
Asterix in Corsica
Asterix in Belgium
Asterix and the Great Divide
Asterix and the Black Gold
Asterix and Son

From here on they go downhill >>>>>>

Asterix versus Caesar (story book)
Asterix and the Magic Carpet
Operation Getafix (the book is based on the film Asterix and the Big Fight. The script is based on two books: Asterix and the Big Fight and Asterix and the Soothsayer).
Asterix and the Secret Weapon
How Obelix fell in to the Magic Potion (based on the Asterix comic strip of the 1960s)
Asterix conquers America (This title is a book of the film by the same name. The film is based on Asterix and the Great Crossing).
Asterix and Obelix All at Sea
Asterix Poster Book (12 posters)
Asterix Game Book: The Meeting of the Chieftains
Asterix Game Book: The Idol of the Gauls
Asterix Game Book: The Roman Conspiracy

 

[MCdread]

Now I am quoting posters who no longer exist here. (On the first page of that bumped thread I recognised maybe 3 names at most.

Lt. Killer M. is CarlosMM.

 

[Masquerouge]

Lately, I read again the Olympics game and discovered a pun I had never noticed before!

"les sangliers ont mange des cochonneries"

My favorite sentence from that album. It's what the village comes up with for an excuse when Asterix looses the first race : "the boars [that they ate the night before] had eaten trash".

 

[Steph]

"les sangliers ont mange des cochonneries"

My favorite sentence from that album. It's what the village comes up with for an excuse when Asterix looses the first race : "the boars [that they ate the night before] had eaten trash".

I use this sentence everytime a French sportsman lose a match or a contest : "il a du manger un sanglier qui avait mangé des cochonneries". But there another hidden pun (cochonneries / cochonailles )

No, the pun I discovered is when all the athletes are entering the stadium
"Ceux de Milo sont venus aussi".
Anyway, my favourite pun is
Numerobis : "Je suis cher ami très heureux de vous revoir"
Panoramix : "C'est un alexandrin".

I don't know the English versionk, but I find this one very subtile

 

[Masquerouge]

I use this sentence everytime a French sportsman lose a match or a contest : "il a du manger un sanglier qui avait mangé des cochonneries". But there another hidden pun (cochonneries / cochonailles )

No, the pun I discovered is when all the athletes are entering the stadium
"Ceux de Milo sont venus aussi".
Anyway, my favourite pun is
Numerobis : "Je suis cher ami très heureux de vous revoir"
Panoramix : "C'est un alexandrin".

I don't know the English versionk, but I find this one very subtile

He he nice one, Milo... he he he.

Anyway the alexandrin actually is "je suis tres cher ami heureux de vous revoir", I think. Sounds better, with "la cesure a l'hemistiche"

 

[MCdread]

Yeah, I mentioned that one a few posts above. It took me ages to notice it, and only when I got suspicious and tried to translate it to french and count the syllables.

 

[kryszcztov]

No, the pun I discovered is when all the athletes are entering the stadium
"Ceux de Milo sont venus aussi".

Didn't get it until I looked up for it on a website, but I find this one pretty weak, since it's not pronounced the same.

Also Steph, you'll be happy because the next movie is about the Olympic Games.