MTV Geek: I can understand that experience! I lived in Europe for a few years and grew up with titles like Tintin and Asterix and Obelix.
Garth Ennis: I love Asterix and Obelix! It’s great and super sarcastic. The way the characters talk to each other is just wonderful.
Geek: It’s such an adult comic while also being suitable for kids. I love comics that can transcend the boundaries of age.
Ennis: It’s that classic multi layer thing. The kids see the brightly colored funny people and big fat Obelix doing ridiculous things, while the adults are looking at the beautiful dialogue and the clever subtext and historical aspects. What a wonderful comic!
Are these characters popular in wurope or something? No one in the states likes them except my dad, and there designs are fucking awful.
Nolan Taylor
Is this the true face of bait?
Also, yes they are insanely popular in Europe. Which is good, because the comics are fucking great. Well, only the older ones of course. But those were consistently great.
Jacob Jenkins
Yeah, they're pretty damn popular.
Colton Allen
They are popular all over the western world. People my age I know in Australia, England and the US all read Asterix and Tintin. They were the most borrowed books in the school library when I was a kid.
Also for a while Asteric and Obelix was the highest grossing movie of all time in France.
Anthony Brooks
I used to borrow these from my school library when I was a kid. In Australia
Liam Brown
Your dad should've thrown your mother off a staircase when she was pregnant with you.
Levi Davis
Asterix, Lucky Luke, Isnogud...are there any modern comics that are like those?
Ian Clark
>mfw my mother threw away my dad's Asterix collection because she thought comics were bad
It was 30 years ago, but still.
Mason Long
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Carter Martin
They are the only comic book characters my parents like, and they hate comic books with a passion
Xavier Butler
>and they hate comic books with a passion Can i ask why?
Jayden Anderson
They consider it violent garbage.
They never prohibited reading them, it's just that they considered it worthless garbage.
It's funny, because both of my grandparents think otherwise, and my grandma was a math teacher, and she liked them.
I tried to give Dylan Dog (Johnny Freak) to my mother, and she just couldn't read it, even if she liked the art. That's how deep the disgust is.
Meanwhile, both of grandmas liked, cried while reading, and enjoyed it.
Gavin Smith
cont. what makes it even funnier, because while my mother loved watching the Asterix animated movies, she never grabbed a comic, again, even if she liked the art.
My father just thinks the comics are for kids, and that they are just stupid.
Josiah Brown
>They consider it violent garbage. And they like Asterix?
Ethan Thomas
Asterix and Obelix are always fun, from learning some odd bits of actual history, to appreciating the irony and sarcasm ... all the way to the simple English-language pun names.
Unhygienix the Fishmonger. Perfect.
Juan Miller
Asterix might be the reason why I can't agree with Roman-boos in /his/.
Jaxon Hall
They never read it, they just like the look of it, because it looks very disney-family friendly.
Michael Evans
Underage shouldn't post here, get back to Sup Forums, cunt.
Ian Ward
>conqvest Gold.
Julian Jones
Who is best Asterix girl?
Aiden Cox
reminder
Jonathan Robinson
Lolyeah, this didn't happen, kthxbye
...I wish...
Robert Miller
NO! STOP RIGHT THERE, MOTHERFUCKTERIX!
Kevin Ward
Why did Uderzo have such a hateboner against Manga?
Dylan Moore
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Dylan King
manga's pretty big in france, lots of japanese-influenced artists
Jeremiah Campbell
If my wife did that to me, I would divorce her. Not even kidding. I would just straight up leave. So much disrespect.
Nolan Thompson
It's clear he knows nothing about it. The "Nagmas" were "parodies" of Mazinger Z and Beyblade. He forgot to include actual valid criticisms.
Jason Ortiz
>Well, only the older ones of course. But those were consistently great. I would say, Uderzo still managed to make some good one on his own.
Evan Howard
I grew up reading this, it's great. Ennis is right, as usual.
Colton White
Personal opinion, but I think one of his last one was my personal favorite.
A bit depressing, though. As kids, you read it as grown man cartoon characters acting all silly and being stupid, but once you grow up, you realize this is all way too true.
Daniel Gonzalez
He saw an hentai once and hated it.
Thomas Johnson
I would add those two as good "Uderzo solo" Asterix.
I suspect "Le Grand fossé" to have been slightly influenced by "Asterix chez les belges" seeing as it was done not long after it.
Bentley Mitchell
Cleopatra's nose.
Adrian Robinson
No wonder this talentless hack likes this shit.
Michael Foster
@85488781
Cameron White
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Aaron Perez
>having kancolleshit on your computer Makes sense you like Ennis and Asterix. You have no taste.
Matthew Turner
I... don't recognize that cover. What's the story?
Chase Hughes
There are plenty of reasons to disagree with Roma-boos. I mean, they fetischize a culture that never gave up on human sacrifices or on hating on science. Their population had to be replaced on a genetic level before we could restart our thousand-year ascend back to the heights hellenist greece commanded.
Ryder Lee
Aliens. No, I'm serious. Aliens from space visit the Gauls and someshit happens. In the end they hit the village with amnesia beam to make them forget it all.
Nathan Hughes
Manga invade their village, but then cape comics an disney cartoon come to help them, then everyone forget that it ever happened.
AND I MEAN FUCKING EVERYONE, INCLUDING THE READERS.
Adrian Phillips
This happens.
Jack Barnes
Lel that sounds hilarious in a NOT MUH CANON way.
Any of you happen to know if it's scanlated and/or happen to have a link?
>yfw you reading The Boys and the female literaly fell into a bucket of Compound V in Dr.Uderzo's lab >yfw the Female is Obelix
Bentley Campbell
i do wonder what camel taste like. also >when you realise that the bureaucracy task wasn't much of an exaggeration youtube.com/watch?v=JtEkUmYecnk
Connor Martin
Tastes a little like beef. A bit fattier though, especially depending on the cut. Though in some preparation methods that's the entire point (camel hump is served in a way that melts the fat making it soft and oily)
Older camel gets a slightly tangy game taste to it.
Logan Clark
the european comic industry is stronger than ever. way more than the cape comics one.
Jose Richardson
are you putting this on equal ground with Sentry ripping someone in half in a full color page?
Kevin Mitchell
It almost killed the franco-belgium tradition. Even Moebius himself threw a rant in the same vein.
Juan Lewis
because he saw the shitty ones in the 80's and 90's that flooded the market with shit his generation consider obscene and illegal.
Elijah Perry
It's kind of more complex than that. His generation for instance had a blast with the arrival of American comics, their freshness and more adult tones were extremely mind blowing in post war Europe. Gosciny himself worked at early Mad and Morris did his carreer living in the US as well. I think his problem with mangas, as shown in the book, is that he made his opinion based on animes, grendizer and other crude ones. He was probably badly surrounded at the time, and followed the media anti manga craze of the 90's instead of the open minded curiosity he had with American products 30 years before.
Anthony Allen
Holy shit, does anyone have that page ?
Anthony White
>haven't read Asterix & Obelix in years >randomly happen to see this in a shop >oh cool, they're still making these, guess I'll have some fun and relive my childhood >mfw I'm done reading
Henry Thomas
I have the Polish edition of it and the comic itself is so bad its hilarious, complete with LOL, MEMORY WIPE following the climax.
Also, it was a sure sign of Asterix being turned to shit after Goscinny's death when text boxes with explainations for inter-issue references began to pop up.
Luke Stewart
The two last one (Asterix and the Picts and Asterix and the Missing Scroll) weren't as bad. They were made by a new writer and artist. The writting isn't as good as Goscinny but they are way better than the last one Uderzo made.
Ian Davis
>traditional french village in the middle >invading mangashit on the left >invading capeshit on the right >everything is fucking ruined, forever asterix was always social satire, the reason this one hurts is because it's satirizing itself
Jose Perez
Not him, but can you tell me more? This sounds quite interesting.
Ryder Wood
Would you, user?
Daniel Fisher
Only if she pegs me with that nose
Anthony Scott
Chapter 38, page 6-7
Jacob Butler
Okay so, this has been bugging me for a while, and I REALLY don't want to sound full tumblr here, but does Uderzo hate women?
Every woman in the Asterix comics is either a complete bitch, a manipulative lying cunt, or a damsel in distress. I was reading "Caesar's Gift" and the newcomer's daughter is thinking about how her parents are tearing apart the village and her mom says "It's okay we can go to parisium and I'll get you some dresses and jewelry" and she's like "DRESSES AND JEWELRY!?"
I mean I'm not asking for feminist literature but at least write a lady who isn't a vapid cunt.
Julian Barnes
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Asterix started in 1959, norms were a bit different back then.
Adrian Williams
I bet you love this character then.
Anthony Fisher
First for "Caesar's Gift" Uderzo was the artist, Goscinny was the writer. Second Caesar's Gift was written in 1977, so mentality weren't the same.
Dylan Wilson
>Uderzo turned Asterix into a woman-beater just to forward a le feminism storyline
O I am laffin'
Angel Myers
>>everything is fucking ruined, forever Nah, everything got retconned. The US Hegemony is safe once again.
Jason Campbell
With those lips and nose?
Yes. A thousand times yes.
Daniel Walker
I believe Tommy said it best, last panel.
William Brooks
Goscinny struck me as the kind of guy who was just raised in a different time, with different social norms. In context, none of the female villagers felt any more foolish than the male villagers, and you had some characters, like Cleopatra, who did exhibit a sense of dignity- at least within the confines of a comedic work.
Uderzo, though, holy shit, the only thing that seems to scare Uderzo more than Asians is women.
Landon Harris
That's hilarious.
Matthew Johnson
>when you realise that the bureaucracy task wasn't much of an exaggeration Exaggeration? I wish it was that easy...
Ryder Lopez
Sadly it's a shoop.
Evan Sullivan
When I was younger and didn't know that Le grand fossé was a Uderzo solo, I really disliked it. I found L'odysée d'Astérix and Astérix chez Rahazade pretty cool though.
>Moebius >Hating on Manga He named his daughter Nausicaä after Miyazaki's character (who is itself named after a character from Homer's Odyssey)
He may have complained of poor quality Manga, but probably not more or less than about the pile of extremely shitty European and American comics.
Also > It almost killed the franco-belgium tradition Just no
Liam Davis
>In context, none of the female villagers felt any more foolish than the male villagers Yeah, it's not like the male half of the village is made up of paragons of reason who stand above wordly desires and common strife.
Xavier Thompson
Why are you lying are on the internet?
Christopher Morris
Are you implying it didn't, lad? The only thing coming out of France and Belgium these days is Weeaboo trash and 3d-pixar shit.
Andrew Richardson
>The only thing coming out of France and Belgium these days is Weeaboo trash and 3d-pixar shit. You're full of shit. I actually live there and read new BD all the time.
Alexander Morgan
But that's wrong, just look at any editor like soleil,dellcourt,glénat, dargaud... But let me guess the only thing you know about "thing coming out France and Belgium these days" are Wakfu and Ladybug.
Gabriel James
Eh, it wasn't *that* bad.
As a kid you wouldn't get the mango references anyway.
I'll agree the memory wipe ending was lame though.
>the scan is a library book At least that explains why the scan is less than great.
Thomas Parker
My number one question is, did FRANCE even like it? Do they have the same distaste for Uderzso's writing we Americans do?
Joseph Johnson
But Grendizer was at least as good said American comics of the time.
Easton Gomez
No, it's considered by most people as the worst Asterix album.
James Carter
Maybe the comic is just, I dunno, taking place in BC 50 or so, and they had different norms for women at the time.
Josiah Perez
>is either a complete bitch, a manipulative lying cunt I think he just wanted to keep at least some things believable and realistic.
Camden Green
I feel like Asterix and Son was supposed to be the series finale.
Andrew Carter
Dude was born in a much different time, of course he going to a different view on women.
Joshua Price
What? Are you one of those idiots who believes in the "dark ages"?
Hunter Gonzalez
The next Eagles volume of that should be out this year.
I guess if it were made today there would be female warriors in the village but it's too late to introduce them now.
Not sure if that would be more of a Briton thing because of Boudicca and all but aren't they all Celtic.
Caleb Russell
Because all the characters in the village outsied of Asterix and Panoramix were vapid cunts, even Obelix was like that at times. Outside of that there were decent women, see Cleopatra.
And why would a gaul NOT be a woman-beater, tumblr?
Kayden Morris
Holy fuck no, people shat bricks when it came out.
Liam Young
I still remember TF1 going on like "hourra, Un nouvelle Astérix!!". I pity the reporter who was tasked to report on it and try to make it look good.
Mason Allen
I love Asterix.
Noah Hill
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