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I came across asterix mansion of the gods cartoon recently. I was apprehensive since I had read the comics first. maybe you can talk about any animated versions of comics and your general impressions?
Some kind of edition comparison video would probably be appropriate for a classic series like this? To help other readers with their purchase decisions? Obviously it would be silly to compare every edition of every single story in the series, but a more "general vintage" comparison of one album here and and another album there. Altough I admit that the re-coloring and re-lettering of this latest round of reprints is reasonably subtle, I myself was not a big fan and went to the trouble of collecting softcovers from the 70’s. While their glued binding can be weak, the richer original colors on thick matte paper make up for it. I wonder if this holds in the English language editions as well?
@@arvindramanathan3105 Ah, interesting! I generally don't talk about any other medium other than comics on this channel. This is not because I don't enjoy film and animation and video games etc, but I think they get a lot of coverage already, whereas comics still get talked about often as the 'source' for movies/TV more often than not. It's also a very slippery slope and once I do it for one thing, there's no reason not to do it for another etc. I know it sounds a bit precious and stiff, but I really wanted to make a corner of specifically celebrating the pleasure of reading comics, if that makes sense!
@@vellu5000 That's a great suggestion! I just wonder if my personal 'vintage books' would present a proper base of comparison, being as weathered and therefore altered as they are. And if they are hard to find, I may not do folks much service. But I would love to see what discrepancies or differences in the reading are wrought and perhaps explore that in a more discussion- oriented video. Thanks so much for the idea!
It really surprises me that Asterix is wordly famous considering that so many of the jokes are centered around french culture and history as well as complex word plays that I can't see being faithfully translated.
It's really universal! Like so much of art, it contains a universality outside of its specifics, allowing readers from all contexts to enjoy stories at the core about pride, freedom, silliness, competition, pettiness, and friendship. Great stuff!
Rene Goscinny did not just only write the best volumes of Asterix. His volumes of Lucky Luke are the best of that series as well. In fact, if you like Asterix, there's a good chance you will like Lucky Luke.
I've definitely enjoyed the Lucky Luke I've read (around 20-25 of the adventures) and you're absolutely right, I've loved the Goscinny ones of those by far the most! I really should look into finding more Lucky Luke...😁
Haha, that's great! I can completely see it being given that allowance on a number of fronts, including getting kids interested in history, geography, travel, and language 😁!
As a German, my father was never a fan of comics as an adult. He didn't ban them but he never encouraged me. But He was a fan von Asterix, therefore I knew Asterix from the early 70s on and my father did buy every issue till his death.
I had a friend with parents like that except he was only allowed to read Tintin comics, every other comics was deemed too dumb and banned (including Asterix).
One thing worth mentioning about the English translations by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge is Goscinny was of the opinion they actually improved the writing especially with regards to many of the jokes. High praise indeed!
I just wrote elsewhere in these comments that the English translations by Bell and Hockridge are some of the best translations I have ever read in any form. And I say this purely on the basis of the English, not having read (or being able to read) the original French. So to hear you say this just doubles my already significant admiration!
@@ftloc - Anthea Bell and Hockridge's translations are also one of the reasons why the newer books kind of fail for me. I can also see some stylistic personal choices made by the new artist.
I grew up reading them primarily in English (UK) but lived in Spain, so also had "La Residencia de los Dioses" - and with a French mother, occasionally had triplicates - in this case, also "Le Domaine de Dieux". English is and always was my primary language but both French and Spanish are tied for strong second. I always thought the English captions captured more of the nuances of the original French while adding a zest and wry wit that I sometimes missed in the original! - When it came to reading it in Spanish, for some reason I just treated it like any other Spanish comic (e.g., Tip y Col, etc) and don't remember the impression.
asterix is like tintin beloved by many of us euros, through generations.( im norwegian myself) and it has had a life outside comics as well. with some movies, animated and live action. and several video games.
Oh yes, I know it is HUGE! ANd I can completely see why - even all the way here in India, Asterix was the equal to Tintin, Mickey Mouse, Superman and Spider-Man for us growing up!
Haha, that is very sweet and kind of you to say! I think that it is next to impossible but I'm fine with my amateur status, it lets me do whatever I want. 😁
As a kid in England in the late 70s and 80s these were my prized treasures. I read and reread them must of been thousands of times…..I’m 46 now and still have them.
How lovely! Only two volumes of my 80s Dargaud books remain. The rest have either fallen apart through rereading and moving, or were never returned by fickle friends. I'd love to have those original editions of mine, but these are a decent substitute 😁
Hello from Greece, this is yet another great video about my favorite subject, comic books. I'm used to the quality of your videos by now but I can't help being pleasantly surprised each and every time I stumble upon one of your wonderfully made audiovisual treats. The Asterix comics in Greece are super popular since the late sixties, they even reach the same level of Disney publications popularity-wise which is a sort of royalty where I come from. I believe that every Asterix fan loves the Goscinny-written stories, myself included, his early passing was quite a loss for the ninth art community. Uderzo's artwork is simply beyond words in my humble opinion, his drawing hand was touched by Toutatis himself, I can't think of another logical explanation of this mesmerizing eye-candy. We have been through several Asterix publications throughout the years with various results in quality including translation. We have Asterix albums in hardcover now just like in France, there are translations in Ancient Greek and in a few Greek dialects, even in Latin..
Touched by Toutatis indeed! 😁 I've heard about those Latin editions - apparently they were created to help students learn Latin (back when Latin was taught in schools?)
My favourite comics of all time! I was collecting them since kindergarten and I couldn't wait to go to primary school and learn how to read, in order to read them all! And so I did and I was re-reading them every year and every time I got something new out of them, as I was growing up.
If someone has a reaction like "I couldn't wait to go to school to learn to read to read these books" you know the authors have done a great job, don't you? What an absolutely wonderful way to put it! ♥
Great video evoking so many fun childhood memories. You should give more credit to the English translations by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge. The translated jokes resonated so well even though I get the idea that the original French versions probably were intended more for French native speakers. Compare this to the English translations of Tintin by Cooper and Turner which are the most well known ones. Tintin in English sounds very simplistic and the jokes dont land with the same efficacy as they did when I was younger. Contrast this to the Bengali translations of the Tintin adventures which have personally still retained the charm. The English Asterix editions however continue to entertain me quite a lot by Toutatis!
Thank you and I'm glad you enjoyed the video! Yes, I did approach this as a more general view of Asterix, but Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge should indeed have gotten more adulation. In these comments, though, you can see the celebration of their work by not just me but so many others as well! 😁 I think I'll make a future video in which I may get to talk about the translation a bit more, stay tuned!
I'm so happy to finally see this Asterix video! I think Asterix is the first long-form comic I ever read having picked them up as a child in order to try to learn my French better (didn't help that much, but I went on to read quite a few in English and loved them). Since then, I had kind of forgotten about this series but recently rediscovered it last year. I'm lucky that my library has about half of these omnibus collections. I've only read the first one so far, but it was so charming and wonderful and just an absolute delight! I cannot wait to read more of these stories and I would definitely want to add them to my own collection down the line. Wonderful overview! I'm so glad you covered these books! They really hold up so well as an adult reader - the puns and humour, the bouncy energetic cartooning, and the charm. Such an infectious good time!
You're absolutely right in every single thing you've noted! Infectious and lighthearted, but there's also just enough meat and substance to satisfy an adult reader. The world that Goscinny and Uderzo created was unlike any other I've encountered, even till today. There were always consequences and stakes, but at the same time the adventures felt light and carefree. The observations on humans were gentle ribbing, and spoke of a universal human nature that I admire even more today!
Wonderful film. I am in my late 40's and I love Asterix. I have been a fan since I was a child around 8 or 9 years old. I still have all my books big and small including the fantastic story of how Obelix fell into the magic potion as a little boy. I also have the box set dvd films. Thank you for covering these books I would love to get them myself.
So glad you liked this video, especially as a fan of Asterix since childhood, just like me! 😁 These are good editions to have in English. I looked at the new US hardcover editions from Papercutz in another video and they are not as good, in my opinion. Good luck on adding to your already wonderful collection!
Here in Québec, that French-Speaking Canadian Province (State if you prefer), we have all of them used that date from my father and some of his brother's childhood. In French, the first books of the series had weird ugly colors and were published by Dargaud and had a font that changed and wasn't much consistent. Later now the first half of the books, when Gosciny was alive is published in French by Hachette, was recolored by computer mostly by Cerise and rewritten still by hand consistently. The other half of the books in French (after the death of Goscinny) are published by Albert René editions. A fun fact I know is that the English books were rewritten by the same person who rewrote the French BDs too accordingly. Those Omnibus English books look very interesting and I would like to know the BDs in English, and see how the multitude of riddles and puns were translated.
I've seen some of those oddly coloured ones, I believe. I wasn't aware of how many variations there have been to the colours over the year. I really do like the Hachette omnibuses. Even though they are not hardcover, they tick pretty much every other box for me. They even helped me overcome my bias against 'three-in-one' editions, haha. So glad you liked the video!
Just found this video. Great overview and definitely agreed on the last 2 volumes. Those 6 stories were never my favorite also. The last 3 I could only read once whereas the others, I have read multiple times.
Thank you, I'm so glad you enjoyed the video. I've heard the more recent books aren't that bad, but honestly I haven't been interested in checking them out at all. The new Lucky Luke books, on the other hand... 😁
I didn't read many Astrix growing up, but now I'm slowly but surely reading through them all chronologically. It's still early days, but it's been interesting and generally entertaining.
Aahhh Asterix, I learned to read through these and Tintin - such lovable childhood memories. The whole set of Asterix stories is being launched I’m my country, as we speak, for several months. These special remastered editions include extra materials and contextual texts specially written for it, all in hardcover. As far as I know there are no equivalent English edition so, If you read French you might try the original editions...
@@ftlocAsterix really deserved better attention by English language publishers. I know it is a French inspired character and the multi level reading experience points out to specific local sociological and personality traits but, as a whole, it caters to a universal audience. Speaking of Asterix another gaule should earn you attention - I’m talking of Alix by Jaques Martin and since your are in “french” territory why not include Spirou & Fantasio, Gaston, Iznogoud, and many others... Cheers
Asterix is huge and has never been out of print in English so I really don't understand the lack of great deluxe editions (although most of the paperback editions are pretty high quality too) I have a bunch of Izhnogouds and Lucky Lukes and have had for many years. On the other hand I just got my first Spirou book a few months ago! 😁
@@ftloc Spirou is fantastic,, specially the Franquin period and the last albums are also very good. Looking forward to see reviews of those and others you might happen to come across.... And thank you for this homage to the work of the late Albert Uderzo (passed away last year...) and Goscinny.
I am a huge fan of Asterix. However, I was pretty peeved when the publishers decided not to publish ASTERIX : SECRET OF MAGIC POTION (2018) and ASTERIX: THE GOLDEN MENHIR in English. My repeated requests had fell on deaf ears and so along with a friend of mine- Vishnu Kanth- we decided to translate SECRET OF MAGIC POTION to English. Finally we achieved success on X'mas day 2020- and we have submitted the translation to the official Asterix publishers seeking to publish the same in English. Likewise I have also requested Asterix publishers to translate and publish in English 3 other series- JEHAN PISTOLET, LUC JUNIOR and BENJAMIN et BENJAMINE- three comic book series created by Goscinny and Uderzo which have had no English avatar so far. Narayan Radhakrishnan
Wow, that's such a great story! Be sure to let me know what the publishers say, please. (By the way, which publishers did you send your work to?) Also, I know a Vishnu Kanth on Facebook and the comments here - is your friend the same gentleman?
@@ftloc yes Vishnukanth himself. I wrote to the official Asterix publisher Edituons Albert Rene and Hachette to oublish same in English and if possible to make good use of our effort of passion. Keeping fingers crossed for a reply
I have to add that your body animation while talking and presenting is just so wholesome. Very sympathetic and always conveying interest and information. This is the first of your videos I've watched and you've added a German to your subscribers.
great run through... I think Goths, although early, is fabulous... You are spot on about Goscinny being the difference between "OK" and "Fabulous" in terms of the comedy. It is the same with Lucky Luke and Iznogoud for my money... where there is Goscinny there is hilarious mayhem. Love him.
Thank you so much and agreed and agreed; I love Goscinny's work both here and in the few Lucky Lukes by him that I have read. The quality of most of the Goscinnny - Uderzo Asterix books are so high and so consistent that picking favourites is always a matter of the smallest of edges being given or taken, and a truly challenging task. Doesn't stop me from attempting it though! Cheers!
What a coincedence! I literally completed my own Asterix collection yesterday when I got an excellent vintage hardback copy (published by Hodder and Stoughton) of The Twelve Tasks of Asterix from eBay in the post and now I'm finally done. For me the ONLY edtions that count are these old hardback versions for two reasons. The first is unquestionably nostalgia. The very first Asterix book I read was my late uncle's 1st edition hardback of Asterix in Britain (which I now own of course). I grew up with these hardbacks reading the copies from the public library multiple times as well as borrowing them (again multiple times) from an army guy who lived next door to my parents when I was about 7 years old. That guy had them all (in hardback form naturally) but would only let me borrow them one at a time so I was always knocking on his door! The second reason these old hardbacks are the only way is the use of the different font in the modern versions which I really can't abide at all. So I now have "vintage" copies of all the books in hardback form Asterix the Gaul to Asterix and the Black Gold. That's me done. Like you I think the series went downhill somewhat after Goscinney's death although I rate Asterix and the Great Divide as the best post Goscinney book, it's pretty good I think, rather well observed. I didn't care for Asterix and Son at all when it came out but obviously I was a lot older by then. When I read Asterix and the Falling Sky I remember being almost angry as it was just plain bad and broke the believability of the world of Asterix with the ludicrous aliens. I think the series was pretty much out of ideas at that point so I've never bothered with any of the other latter books. (Actually that's not quite true. I read Asterix and the Missing Scroll recently when a second hand paperback copy came into the comic shop where I work. It was okay, but rather flat). In terms of the actual books I like, I have to say that Asterix and the Secret Agent is my personal favourite and would probably make it into my top ten comic books of all time. It's a brilliant study of the dangers and destructive potential of gossip and rumour (and the cult of personality to some extent). All perennial subjects presented in a sophisticated, satirical and very funny way with one of the all term great Astrix characters, said agent. Regarding the use of stereotypes (both racial and national) in the books, I've never found anything offensive at all. The humour is really very gentle and affectionate regarding all its subjects I think. Leg-pulling and teasing is about as harsh as it gets and I'm pretty sure the creators intentions were completely honourable. That said, who am I to comment on the representations of other nationalities and races in the world of entertainment? Changing the subject slightly, I'm currently buying all the Lucky Luke books published here in the UK by Cinebooks in PB form. Most of them are written by Goscinney and they are a joy too. I've only bought a few various editions written by Morris only and by other writers and I have to say they were decent enough with plenty of good ideas but they do have a rather different "feel" to them which I guess is to be expected. As regards Tintin, I did plan to buy all the old hardback Methuen books of my childhood but they are £££s so I'm getting the new hardbacks one by one. The font in the new editions is also different to the one in the books I used to read as a kid but I did read somewhere or other that the new font is closer to the one used in the original French language versions. Anyway, thanks for another great video and I look forward to the next.
@@mehernoshtarapore8902 Yes I bought one recently (The Wicked Wiles) as it happens but it remains in my "to read" pile as of now. I'm trying to limit my buying so that it has the same frequency as my reading speed despite constant temptation. I'm failing mostly...
As happens so often when I hear you talk comics, I am incredibly jealous. That hardcover collection you describe would absolutely be the way I would dream of collecting this wonderful series. There's almost too much 'marketing' that can happen trying to get new readers hooked on to this classic series, and I would love the look and feel of the original packaging instead. With Tintin, the missing Hyslop lettering is definitely a bitter pill to swallow for readers of the classic editions, the new fonts fidelity to the original French notwithstanding. It is still a computer font and the absolute lack of variation, married to the relative thinness and italic-like slant, rob the text of its charm. I did not face such an issue with the Asterix albums, but now that you have pointed this out, I must run and check against my childhood copies. Are there menhir more original hardcovers our there in the wild, do you know?
@@ftloc Yes ideally I'd love to have all the 1970s Methuen hardback versions of Tintin rather than the new ones. I am not a fan of computer generated text in speech balloons either. I find it too sterile and rather fake. That said there's no way I'm going to try to get the old hardback Tintin books as they are just too expensive and I need too many. I just sold my smaller sized Tintin boxset (the blue one) as I just couldn't get on with the smaller format at all. It was a purchase mistake but not an expensive one as I sold it for what I paid for it luckily. Tintin books are best enjoyed album size whether paperback or hardback, a point you made in one of your Tintin videos I recall. Like I said, I'm slowly buying the Lucky Luke books in paperback album size and I have about 25 of the 78 available so far. I'm trying to limit myself to buying one per month just so I can pretend I possess a modicum of self-discipline when it comes to comic buying. After that it'll be Tintin as I have three old (and very battered) Methuen editions from childhood and four new editions. You'll have to forgive me Angshuman as I didn't understand your question at the end of your comment.
@@pysarlis pardon my lame attempt to mimic an Obelix joke. 'Are there many such books left to find?'' would have been a normal person's way of asking that question...
If you're up for it, here's a recording of my 1.5 hour livestream in which I do exactly that! My Personal Top 6 Asterix adventures: ua-cam.com/video/8TFqfpKcCoM/v-deo.html
Love Asterix not because they are good comics ( that they are) because bring the nostalgia of remember pick one from my dad's collection. I didn't read them as adult so I can't say now with a critical eyes if the comic are still good or not. Reviewing the Asterix in Spain, I remembered that I didn't like it for the stereotipes that produce that aren't real of spanish people. I know it was in a comedy and we have to read as it was intent but as kid didn't like that. I will try to find one or two of them and read them.
I'm completely with you! Every time I've picked them up I've wondered if they will have paled but luckily they still hold up for me, although given my disinterest in the later stories (which I read when I was older) I still wonder how much is nostalgia. And also like you, I did not like Asterix and the Magic Carpet's depiction of India. Maybe that shows that we are all OK with jokes until we become the subject of jokes? 😁 (That's a bit of a joke itself, I know it's more complex than that). Cheers!
To reassure you, as a Frenchman, there is a lot of self-mockery or stereotypes about each region of France in these stories. Especially "Asterix and the Banquet" ("Le Tour de Gaule d'Asterix" in French).
Asterix was at the absolute apex of the Francophone comics. I am Portuguese but I grew up with these and still to this day they are part of my life and became a source of shared experiences with family and friends. Goscinny was an absolute genious and brough to us, together with Uderzo, these exceptional stories. The newer stories, although slowly increasing in quality ("The Daughter of Vercingetorix" is quite good), never quite matched the creativity of Goscinny. He also created other exceptional characters/stories that were also part of my life: Iznogoud, Humpá-pá, many books of Lucky Luke,... Merci Mounsieur Goscinny.
You make me want to try an English translation of Astérix. This is all my childhood, especially since I was born in that part of France. I thought it gave me a special connection to The stories. 🤷🏻♀️
In my life I have read a fair number of translations and I rank the original Asterix stories' English translations as some of the best of any kind, ever! I am sure the original French will always be the best way to read them, but the English volumes were 9and continue to be) pure joy.
@@anneceferron4595 They're definitely some of the funniest things in there. I believe (but am not sure) that they're not so much 'translations' as they are completely new names, and to this day they make me giggle out loud, be they Valueaddedtax or Poisonusfungus! 😁
@@ftloc hahah, thanks, definitely love the poisonousfungus. The other one I don’t understand, cause... not my language... not related but my 3 favorite Astérix are zizanie, « le grand fossé » and « les 12 travaux d’astérix »which is a mix between hercule and Astérix trying to find informations in an administratif building... but I think it is an adaptation from a movie.... not sure I remember properly... 3 decades ago
My Dad took me to Parc Asterix in France when it opened in -89. I was eight years old and so happy. He died this summer and I will always be grateful for him buying me the comics and the cartoons when I was little boy. He loved Asterix too.
I'm so sorry for that irrecoverable loss, and i am happy for those lovely memories. I lost my father in 2020 and i feel the same way about the Tintin and He Man comics my parents got me in my childhood.
By Toutatis, this was a very interesting look at one of my all-time favourite series...I spent many happy hours reading Asterix as a kid, both in English and in my native tongue, namely Welsh, and it still holds up to this day, yes? Some of my favourites were Asterix and the Goths (loved that little spoof history of the Gothic civil war which is just a succession of Gothic chiefs hitting each other over the head with spiked clubs), Asterix the Legionary (especially the depiction of Obelix's doomed love for Panacea), Asterix the Gladiator, Asterix and Cleopatra, Asterix and the Magic Carpet and of course Asterix in Britain (which also made for a wonderful cartoon to boot)...mind you, with the exception of the first volume, Asterix the Gaul, which as you mentioned suffered a bit from the fact that the creators were still finding their feet artistically (a bit like the First Season of The Simpsons), the overall standard was consistently high for the vast majority of these delightful stories, yes? As far as favourite characters go, being a bit on the heavyset side, I tended to identify with Obelix, Roman helmet collection and all...as well as feeling a bit sorry for Cacofonix to boot...I mean, surely his singing can't be THAT bad, yes?!
I've only ever read Asterix in English and it's a testament to the quality of the writing and the translation that the jokes still do indeed hold up. The art, of course, has always been lovely. And I completely agree with you on Cacofonix - those Gauls are being quite mean and essentially depriving him of his livelihood! (But what a wonderful treehouse he has!)
A little; a handful of adventures gifted to me by a viewer! I talk about those in one of my 'mail time' videos, I believe. Alas, I have not been able to find more on my own...
Asterix, ideally, should be read in French to perceive the subtlety of Goscinny's texts - With the English version as a supplement of information - in short, a collector must have both 😁 *
I'm late to the party....but now that you have them complete in soft cover....you need them in Hard Cover! Just kidding....mmm, not really..lol! Good overview, by the way...Asterix and Obelix are pure French classics! Cheers! From Canada....
'No such thing as late to a party that's still on!' 😁 I have a couple of hardcovers, including one Dargaud one from the 70s, but the difficulty in getting them all in that form makes me reluctant to set myself down that path. Of course the idea is a great one! Greetings right back at you from India!
I don't know why this video popped up in my feed but it was good. I am always surprised to see how popular astérix can be outside of France. The puns in the original comics are not easily translated but I guess they got good translators. As a fan myself i also bought the books again to replace my old childhood albums and ended up getting buying a leather bound edition ; a classic like Astérix deserves this !
Welcome - glad you found this video! 😁 I wish such editions as you mention existed in English! And yes, the English translations by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge are very good. They also adapted things to be more relatable/ understandable to a non-French audience, and did a legendary job!
Brilliant video, thank you for sharing your opinions and nostalgic memories on UA-cam with us. Like yourself, I grew up with the original books and thought they dropped in quality circa Asterix & son. I even had the Gamebooks in the 1980s that came with dice and cards.
In New Zealand as a kid Asterix and Tintin books we all read in the school library, and they always in stock at every major book store in the country, usually next to Calvin and Hobbes.
I didn't know that they had printed omnibus collections of Asterix. My mom got me a few of the Asterix books when I was a kid. Asterix The Gaul, Asterix and Cleopatra, and Asterix The Legionary. When I got into comic books big time, I saw a review of Asterix in the Comics Journal, but it took some time before I started getting the rest of the Asterix books. As an adult, it still amazes me how well the English translators came up with the jokes and puns *in English* that worked so well in the stories.
You have only covered up till book 33 (Falling Sky) but book 34 (released in 2009)celebrates the Comic heroes’ 50th birthday,later books were written by Jean Yves Ferri and illustrated by Didier Conrad..you haven’t checked those out?
Yes, I haven't gone further because I found my enthusiasm waning, especially after Falling Sky! I did want to focus in this video on the team of Goscinny and Uderzo and they books they did together, which is why I titled the video that way! 😁 I'll check out some of the later books because a number of people have now told me that although not at the same level as the 'original' stories, they're not as bad as the ones I am probably reacting to!
I think the contemporary satire bears scrutiny. “When a man is tired of Lutetia” implies it’s a reflection of French frustrations at Parisian attitudes to the provinces. The banquet one is an easy set up for mocking various French regions and their delicacies. As for the Cleopatra cover, that’s a riff on the Burton/Taylor Cleopatra’s marketing. Oh and the thing about Corsican chiefs turning up after years of hiding reflected a contemporary story too. There must be plenty more that went over my head at the time. Which goes for the orientalism too, alas. Mea culpa.
Very insightful! I have to admit that most probably went over my head - for example, I think I always took "When a man is tired of Lutetia..." line to 'simply' being a reference to Samuel Johnson's line about London, not having the context of Parisian attitudes. I don't think I had even seen the Cleopatra movie poster until decades after I read the comic. The fact that these still feel dense and layered - evocative even for the contextless - speaks to the talent and craft of the authors!
I've mentioned it in a couple of videos, but I honestly I didn't grow up with it the way I did with Tintin and Asterix here in India, and it is a more adult discovery that I am still making my way through. This is more of a personal vlog of a channel than an exhaustive overview of anything, so the videos are all centered around my own experiences and limitations.
Hi , Recently, on Michael minneboo channel on You tube . He flipped through the Asterix album named Asterix chez les pictes ..the book showed the making /process of an Asterix comic from an artistic point of view ..I have been trying get a copy of it ..but all I am getting on Amoazon seems to be another issue of an album with same cover and name but the content is different ..ie it s an album done by Conrad , the new artist .whereas I am looking for the one with artistic insight. If you can throw some light as to how two albums exist with same title and cover design .
Sorry I missed this comment and am only seeing this now. Very interesting - I think this must be a European edition, but I'd love to check out the video. I'll search for it, but if you have a link, that would be great! 👍🏽
I love Asterix and have ever since I got bought my first ever book for myself (Asterix and The Goths) but Tintin is perhaps the most boring thing I read as a kid. They weren't funny, exciting or anything really.
The original Asterix stories are some of my most beloved childhood reads, but so was Tintin for me haha. It's hard to describe how much it opened up the world for me, and created a sense of adventure that encompassed politics, sci fi, fantasy and more. I can see why it won't be to everyone's tastes now, but it's impossible to ignore as an influence, personally.
I actually liked "The Great Divide" even though Goscinny didn't write it, but I appreciate it even more as an adult, since it is really about politics and even French politics. A Gaul village is split in two by a great trench, because after the death of their chieftain, the two candidates could not gain a clear advantage over the other. Therefore, they dug a big trench in the middle of town, and there are two gates, and two chieftains. Tournedix is the chieftain of the left side of the village, while Segregationix is chieftain of the right side (he is depicted in a Louis XIV pose and looks a bit like Charles de Gaulle). But Comix, the son of the leftist chieftain, is in love with Fanzine, the right side chieftain's daughter (yes it's a Romeo and Juliet story). He overhears Acidenitrix, Segregationix evil advisor, ploting to get the Romans' help against the other side. Tournedix then sends his son in Armorica, where a good friend with whom he has fought in Gergovia is the chieftain of a village which still holds out against the invaders... "Asterix and the Black Gold" I also found hilarious. I'm surprised to see it has not been written by Goscinny. Julius Caesar sends a "gallo-roman druid spy" to infiltrate the village, Dubbelosix (a caricature of Sean Connery). He learns that the druid Getafix has run out of precious "rock oil", petra oleum, an important ingredient for the magic potion. He send Asterix and Obelix in Mesopotamia to get some. Dubbelosix will try everything to sabotage their mission. They make an interesting halt in Jerusalem where they sleep in a certain stable under a starry sky... A caustic depiction of the situation in the Near East, as well as a nice spy movie spoof.
Thanks for the great comment! I do have a soft spot for The Great Divide myself because I like the way the split is done. But I found the central characters in the romance a bit bland (reminded me a bit of the couple in Legionary but with larger roles) and the rift, being around new characters, seemed to come out of nowhere in a place I thought I knew as a reader. A bit jarring but perhaps I should go back and see what I think now. The story also shares some similarities with Peyo's Smurf Vs Smurf, both in plot points (a divide running through the village) and real-life inspiration (in the case of the Smurfs story, about tensions between French and Flemish speaking groups in Belgium, I think?). But the Smurfs story feels a bit more organic as well as better metatextual fun, and I think having read that before Great Divide also may have robbed the Asterix adventure of its freshness a bit in my eyes. Still, I think Great Divide would probably be the highest ranked, for me, of the non Goscinny stories that I have read. Cheers!
Oh interesting! Yes, the Uderzo-only ones did slide pretty badly after Great Divide (which, as someone else said in these comments, is the best of the bunch). The new ones seem to have mixed feedback but I wonder if that is our nostalgia interfering. Nothing can equal childhood memories, after all, but I wonder what kids today will think of all of them!
Hey bro, I have followed your videos...and must say your content & delivery is top notch. Don't know if you would be interested in making a video on the vocabulary used in Asterix comics. The names of characters have inherent meanings too...you would know that too... please give it a thought...it would be fascinating to hear / watch you throw light on those aspects.
Thank you s much! And you're absolutely right, the Wordplay in Asterix is great. The names and places, and puns, seem straightforward if you just say them aloud, so I've wondered if i have anything new to contribute. However, I am sure there's a fun video one can carve out, I just need to work it out 😁
I think the falling sky is terrible, a shame because it is the last of Uderzo's work. Although it is an interesting satire of the European Asterix vs the American comics (Disney and DC) and the Japanese manga, it just feels not that Asterix, having aliens in Asterix while there is so much still to explore in the roman world they are set. That being said, the new albums after that (there are 4 of these now) are written and drawn by a new duo, with Uderzo's blessing, Jean-Yves Ferri writing and Didier Conrad drawing. I really like them, they are of course different than the Goscinny and Uderzo works, but they feel a bit more grounded in history. Asterix and the Picts have them go to Scotland, for their first album a decent start but not that special. Their second Album Asterix and the Missing Scroll is very interesting, it puts up the question why Asterix and his village are not mentioned in Caesar's Bello Gallico. Then Asterix and the Chariot Race, which has as the title suggest a racing premise, a chariot race around current Italy. What I really liked about this album is that they've shown how there are more tribes of people living in Italy than only the Romans. A bit like Asterix and the Banquet, but then for Italy. The latest one is Asterix and the Chieftain's daughter, which tells the story of the missing daughter of Vercingetorix, an interesting clash between youth and the older villagers. As it is written in 2019 I think also very actual, as most Asterix albums also where in their days. I think it is worth checking them out, also the Golden Book could be part of the omnibus collection, I don't really know this collection, that is a celebration story with some characters from long ago. To close this long comment off, an interesting fact: After Asterix and the Big Fight, the Asterix album have a pattern of albums switching between albums set in Gaul/regional or albums set outside of Gaul.
Yes, I like that alternating between Gaul and abroad, as I mention in the video; it's a wonderful way to spread the jokes and targets of the gentle fun-making across countries/people! 😁 And thanks for the notes on the subsequent books. I agree with you that the Falling Sky was very disappointing, which is also what I felt about _Asterix and the Actress_. I've heard some people say good things about the newest books and some people say not-so-good things, so I've been on the fence. I well say that The Chariot Race is the one that sounded most appealing, simply because it felt most like a "classic Asterix" premise, as you say. Maybe I'll take aa look, what's the worst that could happen? 😁
I set out to collect replacements for some of my tattered Asterix books last year, but was saddened to see that the fonts used by Orion, and more recently Hachette, have taken a drastic drop from what the lettering used to be. On the Tintin side, I've seen a lot of people complain about the new digitised lettering, but in all honesty that looks very much okay to me compared to the Asterix font-change, which now seems almost a physical eye strain to read. :( I've since abandoned my plan of any Asterix upgrades.
I think I was in a worse position than you - only a couple of my tattered childhood comics remained, so I needed to have the books on my shelves at the very least. The font, while initially off putting, stopped bothering me once the familiarity kicked in. I was happy the translation was left untouched, perhaps the most disappointing thing about the US Papercutz editions.
Unfortunately I'm just a reader, not a seller/shipper. 😁 But these books are all imports, coming into India from the UK or the US so hopefully they should be easy to get in other countries as well?
Long before I recognised what the difference was, as a child I experienced that disappointed bafflement upon reading the later albums. Goscinny was an outstanding satirist, skewering the 'tempora' and the 'mores' of politics and people then as now with affection, precision and the right dash of devil-may-care honesty. Uderzo could draw but never match the tone of Goscinny's writing. He ended up recycling national stereotypes with no satirical point and no narrative purpose. Thanks for this video - it reminded me of how many wonderful Asterix albums I have to reread!
So glad you enjoyed the video, and I completely agree with how you've represented the talents of Goscinny and Uderzo. Personally, as a child I may not have known the context of what was being (lovingly) skewered, but found the characterizations just complex enough to provide me that background at the same time as seeing it lampooned! That is a sign of mastering the craft, I think, and one of the prime reasons I consider Goscinny's work here so good!
@@ftloc Uderzo drawn the first 8 "Tanguy et Laverdure" but because of the success of Asterix he ceased to draw any other series and Tanguy and Laverdure was retook by Jijé (real nameJoseph Gillain who drawned Valhardi, Jerry Spring, Blondin et Cirage and some episodes of Spirou and Fantasio)
I'm glad that Uderzo handed over the right to continue writing Asterix to another artist and author. the series therefore continues. it however sadly wasn't the same with Herge author of The Adventures of Tintin who died before completing his last work Alph Art and someone has to come up with their own made up stories in order to complete the episode. but then again, coming back to Asterix, with both Goscinny and Uderzo gone, the new episodes are no longer the same. and people don't value it as much as before.
@@ftloc I have that feeling. Depends on how much effort and hard work the new author will put into keeping the original author's legacy alive. the episodes of Asterix too were different after Goscinny was gone.
@@EngPheniks Yes, there's always a balance of the old and new that is very hard to figure out. Recent successes in Blake and Mortimer as well as Lucky Luke show that it doesn't always have to be poorly received though...
I got a couple for 500 but most cost me around 600-700. Any more than 700 and I would wait and see if the price drops (I just got them out of order, as you see in the video) The only problem is if they become hard to find or our of print, then the regret is terrible! 😁
@@ftloc Thanks for letting me know. One of the books is currently at 682, the rest are above 700. So I'd rather wait for the prices to get lower. And thanks for your lovely videos regarding Asterix and Tintin that I got back to my love for comics which I left long back and now I am looking to complete the collection for both.
The only solo Uderzo album I liked was Chez Rahazade. The others were pretty disappointing indeed (when they weren’t outright terrible and insulting like Le Ciel Lui Tombe Sur La Tête). EDIT: Was that Hilda in your intro? Oohboy, I must check if you talked about that one as well, I love this comics.
They're only disabled from public view - I still get to see every like and dislike. I just had some random thoughts about public scoring and why people hit dislike etc (that I won't get into here) so I made the likes and dislikes non public. I still appreciate all the likes, and even more I appreciate the conversations! 🙂
I don't know what this video has, but I just come back to this again and again! Love your videos and it has elevated my urge to collect all the volumes, especially with these Omnibus ones.
Thank you very much for your video. Very enjoyable. Been a fan of Asterix for about 35 years and my whole family for maybe 45-50 in all. I’m my house we have them in Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese,ñ, and English!
Wow, that sounds like an amazing collection! Do you have pictures somewhere inline I could look at? 😁 So glad you enjoyed this video, that's such high praise coming from a superfan like you!
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I'd love to know what other Asterix-oriented videos you'd like to see!
I think you should introduced us with new comics.
I came across asterix mansion of the gods cartoon recently. I was apprehensive since I had read the comics first. maybe you can talk about any animated versions of comics and your general impressions?
Some kind of edition comparison video would probably be appropriate for a classic series like this? To help other readers with their purchase decisions? Obviously it would be silly to compare every edition of every single story in the series, but a more "general vintage" comparison of one album here and and another album there. Altough I admit that the re-coloring and re-lettering of this latest round of reprints is reasonably subtle, I myself was not a big fan and went to the trouble of collecting softcovers from the 70’s. While their glued binding can be weak, the richer original colors on thick matte paper make up for it. I wonder if this holds in the English language editions as well?
@@arvindramanathan3105 Ah, interesting!
I generally don't talk about any other medium other than comics on this channel. This is not because I don't enjoy film and animation and video games etc, but I think they get a lot of coverage already, whereas comics still get talked about often as the 'source' for movies/TV more often than not. It's also a very slippery slope and once I do it for one thing, there's no reason not to do it for another etc. I know it sounds a bit precious and stiff, but I really wanted to make a corner of specifically celebrating the pleasure of reading comics, if that makes sense!
@@vellu5000 That's a great suggestion! I just wonder if my personal 'vintage books' would present a proper base of comparison, being as weathered and therefore altered as they are. And if they are hard to find, I may not do folks much service.
But I would love to see what discrepancies or differences in the reading are wrought and perhaps explore that in a more discussion- oriented video. Thanks so much for the idea!
Growing up in Germany "Asterix" and "Tintin" is like pepper and salt to me. EVERY household had them
I love how many thousands of people that is true for all over the world!
Same here in Finland, Asterix, Tintin, Lucky Luke, Spirou & Fantasio etc comics from France and Belgium.
In Sweden to
I'm from Australia and grew up in the 90s with Asterix and Tin Tin
same here in Viet Nam
I am south african my brother. And i gotta say, i really enjoy the asterix comics so much. Love them.
Greetings from India! Isn't it amazing how popular these comics are all over the world?
@@ftloc so true man.
Love asterix and the books childhood memories
Very good and informative video
Glad you liked it
It really surprises me that Asterix is wordly famous considering that so many of the jokes are centered around french culture and history as well as complex word plays that I can't see being faithfully translated.
It's really universal! Like so much of art, it contains a universality outside of its specifics, allowing readers from all contexts to enjoy stories at the core about pride, freedom, silliness, competition, pettiness, and friendship. Great stuff!
Rene Goscinny did not just only write the best volumes of Asterix. His volumes of Lucky Luke are the best of that series as well. In fact, if you like Asterix, there's a good chance you will like Lucky Luke.
I've definitely enjoyed the Lucky Luke I've read (around 20-25 of the adventures) and you're absolutely right, I've loved the Goscinny ones of those by far the most! I really should look into finding more Lucky Luke...😁
I know families in europe where comics were banned for their children, but of course they had Asterix. It was widely known as "the good comic".
Oh, sweet!
Haha, that's great! I can completely see it being given that allowance on a number of fronts, including getting kids interested in history, geography, travel, and language 😁!
@@ftloc Alix Jacques Martin
As a German, my father was never a fan of comics as an adult. He didn't ban them but he never encouraged me. But He was a fan von Asterix, therefore I knew Asterix from the early 70s on and my father did buy every issue till his death.
I had a friend with parents like that except he was only allowed to read Tintin comics, every other comics was deemed too dumb and banned (including Asterix).
One thing worth mentioning about the English translations by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge is Goscinny was of the opinion they actually improved the writing especially with regards to many of the jokes. High praise indeed!
I just wrote elsewhere in these comments that the English translations by Bell and Hockridge are some of the best translations I have ever read in any form. And I say this purely on the basis of the English, not having read (or being able to read) the original French. So to hear you say this just doubles my already significant admiration!
@@ftloc - Anthea Bell and Hockridge's translations are also one of the reasons why the newer books kind of fail for me. I can also see some stylistic personal choices made by the new artist.
Yep these were excellent the Hu our really worked especially the names…….
Same for the Italian translation
I grew up reading them primarily in English (UK) but lived in Spain, so also had "La Residencia de los Dioses" - and with a French mother, occasionally had triplicates - in this case, also "Le Domaine de Dieux". English is and always was my primary language but both French and Spanish are tied for strong second. I always thought the English captions captured more of the nuances of the original French while adding a zest and wry wit that I sometimes missed in the original! - When it came to reading it in Spanish, for some reason I just treated it like any other Spanish comic (e.g., Tip y Col, etc) and don't remember the impression.
I can't believe you just made this a few hours ago! I just read my first 3 asterisk comics yesterday!
The world moves in mysterious ways! 😁
asterix is like tintin beloved by many of us euros, through generations.( im norwegian myself)
and it has had a life outside comics as well. with some movies, animated and live action. and several video games.
Oh yes, I know it is HUGE! ANd I can completely see why - even all the way here in India, Asterix was the equal to Tintin, Mickey Mouse, Superman and Spider-Man for us growing up!
Thank you for doing this one! Asterix has been one of my favourite comics of all time....It felt soo good seeing you review them!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! 😁
I cant wait ’til the day you get enough money from UA-cam to do this as a living!
Haha, that is very sweet and kind of you to say! I think that it is next to impossible but I'm fine with my amateur status, it lets me do whatever I want. 😁
Thank you a lot for making this informative video about the quintessential Franco Belgian comics.
My pleasure, thanks so much!
My father bought these in the 90s and we still have them..😊
Books make the best heirlooms, I've always thought! 😁
As a kid in England in the late 70s and 80s these were my prized treasures. I read and reread them must of been thousands of times…..I’m 46 now and still have them.
How lovely! Only two volumes of my 80s Dargaud books remain. The rest have either fallen apart through rereading and moving, or were never returned by fickle friends. I'd love to have those original editions of mine, but these are a decent substitute 😁
Hello from Greece, this is yet another great video about my favorite subject, comic books. I'm used to the quality of your videos by now but I can't help being pleasantly surprised each and every time I stumble upon one of your wonderfully made audiovisual treats. The Asterix comics in Greece are super popular since the late sixties, they even reach the same level of Disney publications popularity-wise which is a sort of royalty where I come from. I believe that every Asterix fan loves the Goscinny-written stories, myself included, his early passing was quite a loss for the ninth art community. Uderzo's artwork is simply beyond words in my humble opinion, his drawing hand was touched by Toutatis himself, I can't think of another logical explanation of this mesmerizing eye-candy. We have been through several Asterix publications throughout the years with various results in quality including translation. We have Asterix albums in hardcover now just like in France, there are translations in Ancient Greek and in a few Greek dialects, even in Latin..
Touched by Toutatis indeed! 😁 I've heard about those Latin editions - apparently they were created to help students learn Latin (back when Latin was taught in schools?)
@@ftloc Maybe it started back then but I am not certain..
I love asterix did you know that there is even a asterix theme park in french
I've heard of it! Maybe one day I'll get to visit it...😁
You deserve more subscribers keep it up man‼️
Much appreciated!
My favourite comics of all time! I was collecting them since kindergarten and I couldn't wait to go to primary school and learn how to read, in order to read them all! And so I did and I was re-reading them every year and every time I got something new out of them, as I was growing up.
If someone has a reaction like "I couldn't wait to go to school to learn to read to read these books" you know the authors have done a great job, don't you? What an absolutely wonderful way to put it! ♥
Great video evoking so many fun childhood memories. You should give more credit to the English translations by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge. The translated jokes resonated so well even though I get the idea that the original French versions probably were intended more for French native speakers. Compare this to the English translations of Tintin by Cooper and Turner which are the most well known ones. Tintin in English sounds very simplistic and the jokes dont land with the same efficacy as they did when I was younger. Contrast this to the Bengali translations of the Tintin adventures which have personally still retained the charm. The English Asterix editions however continue to entertain me quite a lot by Toutatis!
Thank you and I'm glad you enjoyed the video! Yes, I did approach this as a more general view of Asterix, but Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge should indeed have gotten more adulation. In these comments, though, you can see the celebration of their work by not just me but so many others as well! 😁
I think I'll make a future video in which I may get to talk about the translation a bit more, stay tuned!
I'm so happy to finally see this Asterix video! I think Asterix is the first long-form comic I ever read having picked them up as a child in order to try to learn my French better (didn't help that much, but I went on to read quite a few in English and loved them). Since then, I had kind of forgotten about this series but recently rediscovered it last year. I'm lucky that my library has about half of these omnibus collections. I've only read the first one so far, but it was so charming and wonderful and just an absolute delight! I cannot wait to read more of these stories and I would definitely want to add them to my own collection down the line. Wonderful overview! I'm so glad you covered these books! They really hold up so well as an adult reader - the puns and humour, the bouncy energetic cartooning, and the charm. Such an infectious good time!
You're absolutely right in every single thing you've noted! Infectious and lighthearted, but there's also just enough meat and substance to satisfy an adult reader. The world that Goscinny and Uderzo created was unlike any other I've encountered, even till today. There were always consequences and stakes, but at the same time the adventures felt light and carefree. The observations on humans were gentle ribbing, and spoke of a universal human nature that I admire even more today!
@@ftloc yes sir
Wonderful film. I am in my late 40's and I love Asterix. I have been a fan since I was a child around 8 or 9 years old. I still have all my books big and small including the fantastic story of how Obelix fell into the magic potion as a little boy. I also have the box set dvd films. Thank you for covering these books I would love to get them myself.
So glad you liked this video, especially as a fan of Asterix since childhood, just like me! 😁
These are good editions to have in English. I looked at the new US hardcover editions from Papercutz in another video and they are not as good, in my opinion. Good luck on adding to your already wonderful collection!
Here in Québec, that French-Speaking Canadian Province (State if you prefer), we have all of them used that date from my father and some of his brother's childhood. In French, the first books of the series had weird ugly colors and were published by Dargaud and had a font that changed and wasn't much consistent. Later now the first half of the books, when Gosciny was alive is published in French by Hachette, was recolored by computer mostly by Cerise and rewritten still by hand consistently. The other half of the books in French (after the death of Goscinny) are published by Albert René editions. A fun fact I know is that the English books were rewritten by the same person who rewrote the French BDs too accordingly. Those Omnibus English books look very interesting and I would like to know the BDs in English, and see how the multitude of riddles and puns were translated.
I've seen some of those oddly coloured ones, I believe. I wasn't aware of how many variations there have been to the colours over the year. I really do like the Hachette omnibuses. Even though they are not hardcover, they tick pretty much every other box for me. They even helped me overcome my bias against 'three-in-one' editions, haha. So glad you liked the video!
Glad I clicked on this video, you have a very charismatic demeanor and I'm enjoying this alot.
Thank you so much for your kind words, and I'm thrilled you enjoyed this video! A warm welcome!
Just found this video. Great overview and definitely agreed on the last 2 volumes. Those 6 stories were never my favorite also. The last 3 I could only read once whereas the others, I have read multiple times.
Thank you, I'm so glad you enjoyed the video. I've heard the more recent books aren't that bad, but honestly I haven't been interested in checking them out at all.
The new Lucky Luke books, on the other hand... 😁
I didn't read many Astrix growing up, but now I'm slowly but surely reading through them all chronologically. It's still early days, but it's been interesting and generally entertaining.
I'd love to know what you think when you've read more of the series; come back here and keep updating! 😁
Is the quality of the paper similar to the old hardcovers?
It's not as 'rough' feeling, or matte, as some of the oldest editions, but it is thick and not too glossy.
Really appreciate your detailed review. From the quality of each book to the content inside it. Excellent work!
Much appreciated; I'm so glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Aahhh Asterix, I learned to read through these and Tintin - such lovable childhood memories. The whole set of Asterix stories is being launched I’m my country, as we speak, for several months. These special remastered editions include extra materials and contextual texts specially written for it, all in hardcover. As far as I know there are no equivalent English edition so, If you read French you might try the original editions...
That sounds lovely and makes me very sad that no such effort exists in English, at least as far I know!
@@ftlocAsterix really deserved better attention by English language publishers. I know it is a French inspired character and the multi level reading experience points out to specific local sociological and personality traits but, as a whole, it caters to a universal audience. Speaking of Asterix another gaule should earn you attention - I’m talking of Alix by Jaques Martin and since your are in “french” territory why not include Spirou & Fantasio, Gaston, Iznogoud, and many others... Cheers
Asterix is huge and has never been out of print in English so I really don't understand the lack of great deluxe editions (although most of the paperback editions are pretty high quality too)
I have a bunch of Izhnogouds and Lucky Lukes and have had for many years. On the other hand I just got my first Spirou book a few months ago! 😁
@@ftloc Spirou is fantastic,, specially the Franquin period and the last albums are also very good. Looking forward to see reviews of those and others you might happen to come across.... And thank you for this homage to the work of the late Albert Uderzo (passed away last year...) and Goscinny.
I am a huge fan of Asterix. However, I was pretty peeved when the publishers decided not to publish ASTERIX : SECRET OF MAGIC POTION (2018) and ASTERIX: THE GOLDEN MENHIR in English. My repeated requests had fell on deaf ears and so along with a friend of mine- Vishnu Kanth- we decided to translate SECRET OF MAGIC POTION to English. Finally we achieved success on X'mas day 2020- and we have submitted the translation to the official Asterix publishers seeking to publish the same in English. Likewise I have also requested Asterix publishers to translate and publish in English 3 other series- JEHAN PISTOLET, LUC JUNIOR and BENJAMIN et BENJAMINE- three comic book series created by Goscinny and Uderzo which have had no English avatar so far. Narayan Radhakrishnan
Wow, that's such a great story! Be sure to let me know what the publishers say, please. (By the way, which publishers did you send your work to?) Also, I know a Vishnu Kanth on Facebook and the comments here - is your friend the same gentleman?
@@ftloc yes Vishnukanth himself. I wrote to the official Asterix publisher Edituons Albert Rene and Hachette to oublish same in English and if possible to make good use of our effort of passion. Keeping fingers crossed for a reply
Jesús Christ the production quality is incredible
Much appreciated kind sir!
I have to add that your body animation while talking and presenting is just so wholesome. Very sympathetic and always conveying interest and information. This is the first of your videos I've watched and you've added a German to your subscribers.
@@needfoolthings sorry I'm just now seeing this - thank you much, and a very warm welcome!
@@ftloc That's because you're humble, too.
great run through... I think Goths, although early, is fabulous... You are spot on about Goscinny being the difference between "OK" and "Fabulous" in terms of the comedy. It is the same with Lucky Luke and Iznogoud for my money... where there is Goscinny there is hilarious mayhem. Love him.
Thank you so much and agreed and agreed; I love Goscinny's work both here and in the few Lucky Lukes by him that I have read.
The quality of most of the Goscinnny - Uderzo Asterix books are so high and so consistent that picking favourites is always a matter of the smallest of edges being given or taken, and a truly challenging task. Doesn't stop me from attempting it though! Cheers!
What a coincedence! I literally completed my own Asterix collection yesterday when I got an excellent vintage hardback copy (published by Hodder and Stoughton) of The Twelve Tasks of Asterix from eBay in the post and now I'm finally done. For me the ONLY edtions that count are these old hardback versions for two reasons. The first is unquestionably nostalgia. The very first Asterix book I read was my late uncle's 1st edition hardback of Asterix in Britain (which I now own of course). I grew up with these hardbacks reading the copies from the public library multiple times as well as borrowing them (again multiple times) from an army guy who lived next door to my parents when I was about 7 years old. That guy had them all (in hardback form naturally) but would only let me borrow them one at a time so I was always knocking on his door! The second reason these old hardbacks are the only way is the use of the different font in the modern versions which I really can't abide at all. So I now have "vintage" copies of all the books in hardback form Asterix the Gaul to Asterix and the Black Gold. That's me done. Like you I think the series went downhill somewhat after Goscinney's death although I rate Asterix and the Great Divide as the best post Goscinney book, it's pretty good I think, rather well observed. I didn't care for Asterix and Son at all when it came out but obviously I was a lot older by then. When I read Asterix and the Falling Sky I remember being almost angry as it was just plain bad and broke the believability of the world of Asterix with the ludicrous aliens. I think the series was pretty much out of ideas at that point so I've never bothered with any of the other latter books. (Actually that's not quite true. I read Asterix and the Missing Scroll recently when a second hand paperback copy came into the comic shop where I work. It was okay, but rather flat). In terms of the actual books I like, I have to say that Asterix and the Secret Agent is my personal favourite and would probably make it into my top ten comic books of all time. It's a brilliant study of the dangers and destructive potential of gossip and rumour (and the cult of personality to some extent). All perennial subjects presented in a sophisticated, satirical and very funny way with one of the all term great Astrix characters, said agent. Regarding the use of stereotypes (both racial and national) in the books, I've never found anything offensive at all. The humour is really very gentle and affectionate regarding all its subjects I think. Leg-pulling and teasing is about as harsh as it gets and I'm pretty sure the creators intentions were completely honourable. That said, who am I to comment on the representations of other nationalities and races in the world of entertainment? Changing the subject slightly, I'm currently buying all the Lucky Luke books published here in the UK by Cinebooks in PB form. Most of them are written by Goscinney and they are a joy too. I've only bought a few various editions written by Morris only and by other writers and I have to say they were decent enough with plenty of good ideas but they do have a rather different "feel" to them which I guess is to be expected. As regards Tintin, I did plan to buy all the old hardback Methuen books of my childhood but they are £££s so I'm getting the new hardbacks one by one. The font in the new editions is also different to the one in the books I used to read as a kid but I did read somewhere or other that the new font is closer to the one used in the original French language versions. Anyway, thanks for another great video and I look forward to the next.
Have you tried izonogoud by gosciny and tabary cinebook has published them
@@mehernoshtarapore8902 Yes I bought one recently (The Wicked Wiles) as it happens but it remains in my "to read" pile as of now. I'm trying to limit my buying so that it has the same frequency as my reading speed despite constant temptation. I'm failing mostly...
As happens so often when I hear you talk comics, I am incredibly jealous. That hardcover collection you describe would absolutely be the way I would dream of collecting this wonderful series. There's almost too much 'marketing' that can happen trying to get new readers hooked on to this classic series, and I would love the look and feel of the original packaging instead.
With Tintin, the missing Hyslop lettering is definitely a bitter pill to swallow for readers of the classic editions, the new fonts fidelity to the original French notwithstanding. It is still a computer font and the absolute lack of variation, married to the relative thinness and italic-like slant, rob the text of its charm. I did not face such an issue with the Asterix albums, but now that you have pointed this out, I must run and check against my childhood copies.
Are there menhir more original hardcovers our there in the wild, do you know?
@@ftloc Yes ideally I'd love to have all the 1970s Methuen hardback versions of Tintin rather than the new ones. I am not a fan of computer generated text in speech balloons either. I find it too sterile and rather fake. That said there's no way I'm going to try to get the old hardback Tintin books as they are just too expensive and I need too many. I just sold my smaller sized Tintin boxset (the blue one) as I just couldn't get on with the smaller format at all. It was a purchase mistake but not an expensive one as I sold it for what I paid for it luckily. Tintin books are best enjoyed album size whether paperback or hardback, a point you made in one of your Tintin videos I recall. Like I said, I'm slowly buying the Lucky Luke books in paperback album size and I have about 25 of the 78 available so far. I'm trying to limit myself to buying one per month just so I can pretend I possess a modicum of self-discipline when it comes to comic buying. After that it'll be Tintin as I have three old (and very battered) Methuen editions from childhood and four new editions. You'll have to forgive me Angshuman as I didn't understand your question at the end of your comment.
@@pysarlis pardon my lame attempt to mimic an Obelix joke. 'Are there many such books left to find?'' would have been a normal person's way of asking that question...
Please make a video on top 5 asterix book
If you're up for it, here's a recording of my 1.5 hour livestream in which I do exactly that!
My Personal Top 6 Asterix adventures: ua-cam.com/video/8TFqfpKcCoM/v-deo.html
Love Asterix not because they are good comics ( that they are) because bring the nostalgia of remember pick one from my dad's collection. I didn't read them as adult so I can't say now with a critical eyes if the comic are still good or not. Reviewing the Asterix in Spain, I remembered that I didn't like it for the stereotipes that produce that aren't real of spanish people. I know it was in a comedy and we have to read as it was intent but as kid didn't like that. I will try to find one or two of them and read them.
I'm completely with you! Every time I've picked them up I've wondered if they will have paled but luckily they still hold up for me, although given my disinterest in the later stories (which I read when I was older) I still wonder how much is nostalgia. And also like you, I did not like Asterix and the Magic Carpet's depiction of India. Maybe that shows that we are all OK with jokes until we become the subject of jokes? 😁 (That's a bit of a joke itself, I know it's more complex than that). Cheers!
To reassure you, as a Frenchman, there is a lot of self-mockery or stereotypes about each region of France in these stories.
Especially "Asterix and the Banquet" ("Le Tour de Gaule d'Asterix" in French).
Asterix was at the absolute apex of the Francophone comics. I am Portuguese but I grew up with these and still to this day they are part of my life and became a source of shared experiences with family and friends.
Goscinny was an absolute genious and brough to us, together with Uderzo, these exceptional stories. The newer stories, although slowly increasing in quality ("The Daughter of Vercingetorix" is quite good), never quite matched the creativity of Goscinny. He also created other exceptional characters/stories that were also part of my life: Iznogoud, Humpá-pá, many books of Lucky Luke,...
Merci Mounsieur Goscinny.
The Goscinny Lucky Lukes are my favourites of what I've read too!
@@ftloc Thank you for this channel. I really appreciate your work.
Nice job mate!
Thank you; glad you enjoyed it!
You make me want to try an English translation of Astérix. This is all my childhood, especially since I was born in that part of France. I thought it gave me a special connection to The stories. 🤷🏻♀️
In my life I have read a fair number of translations and I rank the original Asterix stories' English translations as some of the best of any kind, ever! I am sure the original French will always be the best way to read them, but the English volumes were 9and continue to be) pure joy.
@@ftloc thanks for the answer! Definitely gonna try it, then! I am especially curious about the translation of the names
@@anneceferron4595 They're definitely some of the funniest things in there. I believe (but am not sure) that they're not so much 'translations' as they are completely new names, and to this day they make me giggle out loud, be they Valueaddedtax or Poisonusfungus! 😁
@@ftloc hahah, thanks, definitely love the poisonousfungus. The other one I don’t understand, cause... not my language... not related but my 3 favorite Astérix are zizanie, « le grand fossé » and « les 12 travaux d’astérix »which is a mix between hercule and Astérix trying to find informations in an administratif building... but I think it is an adaptation from a movie.... not sure I remember properly... 3 decades ago
@@ftloc value dead tax!!! God, took me time but I finally got it ( did I, though????) Thanks again, anyway!!!
Make more video like this
Glad you liked it!
Sadly the current asterix is a shadow of its past self the cheiftans shield was horrible
Did you mean the Chieftain's Daughter? I really like the Chieftain's Shield! 😁
@@ftloc your right cheiftans daughter
PLEASE MAKE AN INTRODUCTION VIDEO FOR LUCKY LUKE
One day it will happen, I'm just not sure when! 😁
Asterix were great stories, second only to Tintin. Some of the humour and running gags were inspired.
I found that the whole original series holds up very well indeed!
Thanks for making a video of my request.👍
I may be slow, but I will eventually get there! 😁 Hope you like the video!
My Dad took me to Parc Asterix in France when it opened in -89. I was eight years old and so happy. He died this summer and I will always be grateful for him buying me the comics and the cartoons when I was little boy. He loved Asterix too.
I'm so sorry for that irrecoverable loss, and i am happy for those lovely memories. I lost my father in 2020 and i feel the same way about the Tintin and He Man comics my parents got me in my childhood.
@@ftloc ❤
The new series is ok
That's what I hear. I'll see if I can borrow one maybe.
Thank you for this! This is amazing! Not enough Asterix love on youtube. Keep it up :D
Glad you liked it! There will definitely be more!
what will it take to animate all these books and do it accurately?
By Toutatis, this was a very interesting look at one of my all-time favourite series...I spent many happy hours reading Asterix as a kid, both in English and in my native tongue, namely Welsh, and it still holds up to this day, yes?
Some of my favourites were Asterix and the Goths (loved that little spoof history of the Gothic civil war which is just a succession of Gothic chiefs hitting each other over the head with spiked clubs), Asterix the Legionary (especially the depiction of Obelix's doomed love for Panacea), Asterix the Gladiator, Asterix and Cleopatra, Asterix and the Magic Carpet and of course Asterix in Britain (which also made for a wonderful cartoon to boot)...mind you, with the exception of the first volume, Asterix the Gaul, which as you mentioned suffered a bit from the fact that the creators were still finding their feet artistically (a bit like the First Season of The Simpsons), the overall standard was consistently high for the vast majority of these delightful stories, yes?
As far as favourite characters go, being a bit on the heavyset side, I tended to identify with Obelix, Roman helmet collection and all...as well as feeling a bit sorry for Cacofonix to boot...I mean, surely his singing can't be THAT bad, yes?!
I've only ever read Asterix in English and it's a testament to the quality of the writing and the translation that the jokes still do indeed hold up. The art, of course, has always been lovely. And I completely agree with you on Cacofonix - those Gauls are being quite mean and essentially depriving him of his livelihood! (But what a wonderful treehouse he has!)
Bravo! Excellent video, to the point, clear and well explained, super enjoyed listening to this video.
Much appreciated! So glad you enjoyed it!
Speaking of Franco-Belgian comics, have you read Spirou and Fantasio?
A little; a handful of adventures gifted to me by a viewer! I talk about those in one of my 'mail time' videos, I believe. Alas, I have not been able to find more on my own...
I love asterix and tintin there amazing 😻
Asterix, ideally, should be read in French to perceive the subtlety of Goscinny's texts - With the English version as a supplement of information - in short, a collector must have both 😁
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And learn French! 😁
I'm late to the party....but now that you have them complete in soft cover....you need them in Hard Cover! Just kidding....mmm, not really..lol! Good overview, by the way...Asterix and Obelix are pure French classics! Cheers! From Canada....
'No such thing as late to a party that's still on!' 😁
I have a couple of hardcovers, including one Dargaud one from the 70s, but the difficulty in getting them all in that form makes me reluctant to set myself down that path. Of course the idea is a great one! Greetings right back at you from India!
I don't know why this video popped up in my feed but it was good. I am always surprised to see how popular astérix can be outside of France. The puns in the original comics are not easily translated but I guess they got good translators.
As a fan myself i also bought the books again to replace my old childhood albums and ended up getting buying a leather bound edition ; a classic like Astérix deserves this !
Welcome - glad you found this video! 😁
I wish such editions as you mention existed in English!
And yes, the English translations by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge are very good. They also adapted things to be more relatable/ understandable to a non-French audience, and did a legendary job!
Brilliant video, thank you for sharing your opinions and nostalgic memories on UA-cam with us.
Like yourself, I grew up with the original books and thought they dropped in quality circa Asterix & son.
I even had the Gamebooks in the 1980s that came with dice and cards.
Thank you so much; I'm so glad you enjoyed it! And those game books sound wonderful, i wish I could play one! 😁
Dude spot on. I have been an Asterix fan all my life. Got all of them except the last four. Not going to collect them anymore.
A perfectly valid and understandable choice, since that is exactly where I am too! 😁
In New Zealand as a kid Asterix and Tintin books we all read in the school library, and they always in stock at every major book store in the country, usually next to Calvin and Hobbes.
As it should be, everywhere! ❤️
Papercutz publishing are doing the asterix albums omnibuses
I know! But they're Rs 1700-ish each instead of the 500-700 I was picking these up for! 😥
my fave is always black gold with secret agent dubblosix from rome M.I.VI 😁
It took me until my second read of it to recognise Sean Connery, i don't think i had seen any movies with him when I first read it...😁
Boars,Boars best prime Booooaarrrs!
I didn't know that they had printed omnibus collections of Asterix. My mom got me a few of the Asterix books when I was a kid. Asterix The Gaul, Asterix and Cleopatra, and Asterix The Legionary. When I got into comic books big time, I saw a review of Asterix in the Comics Journal, but it took some time before I started getting the rest of the Asterix books. As an adult, it still amazes me how well the English translators came up with the jokes and puns *in English* that worked so well in the stories.
Perhaps some of the best translations I've ever read! 😁
You have only covered up till book 33 (Falling Sky) but book 34 (released in 2009)celebrates the Comic heroes’ 50th birthday,later books were written by Jean Yves Ferri and illustrated by Didier Conrad..you haven’t checked those out?
Yes, I haven't gone further because I found my enthusiasm waning, especially after Falling Sky! I did want to focus in this video on the team of Goscinny and Uderzo and they books they did together, which is why I titled the video that way! 😁
I'll check out some of the later books because a number of people have now told me that although not at the same level as the 'original' stories, they're not as bad as the ones I am probably reacting to!
I think the contemporary satire bears scrutiny. “When a man is tired of Lutetia” implies it’s a reflection of French frustrations at Parisian attitudes to the provinces. The banquet one is an easy set up for mocking various French regions and their delicacies. As for the Cleopatra cover, that’s a riff on the Burton/Taylor Cleopatra’s marketing. Oh and the thing about Corsican chiefs turning up after years of hiding reflected a contemporary story too. There must be plenty more that went over my head at the time. Which goes for the orientalism too, alas. Mea culpa.
Very insightful! I have to admit that most probably went over my head - for example, I think I always took "When a man is tired of Lutetia..." line to 'simply' being a reference to Samuel Johnson's line about London, not having the context of Parisian attitudes. I don't think I had even seen the Cleopatra movie poster until decades after I read the comic. The fact that these still feel dense and layered - evocative even for the contextless - speaks to the talent and craft of the authors!
why is on your channel NO Lucky Luke ? i mean its basicly one of the most famous European Comic on the same level like Asterix or Tin Tin
I've mentioned it in a couple of videos, but I honestly I didn't grow up with it the way I did with Tintin and Asterix here in India, and it is a more adult discovery that I am still making my way through.
This is more of a personal vlog of a channel than an exhaustive overview of anything, so the videos are all centered around my own experiences and limitations.
Hi ,
Recently, on Michael minneboo channel on You tube . He flipped through the Asterix album named Asterix chez les pictes ..the book showed the making /process of an Asterix comic from an artistic point of view ..I have been trying get a copy of it ..but all I am getting on Amoazon seems to be another issue of an album with same cover and name but the content is different ..ie it s an album done by Conrad , the new artist .whereas I am looking for the one with artistic insight.
If you can throw some light as to how two albums exist with same title and cover design .
Sorry I missed this comment and am only seeing this now.
Very interesting - I think this must be a European edition, but I'd love to check out the video. I'll search for it, but if you have a link, that would be great! 👍🏽
I love Asterix and have ever since I got bought my first ever book for myself (Asterix and The Goths) but Tintin is perhaps the most boring thing I read as a kid. They weren't funny, exciting or anything really.
The original Asterix stories are some of my most beloved childhood reads, but so was Tintin for me haha. It's hard to describe how much it opened up the world for me, and created a sense of adventure that encompassed politics, sci fi, fantasy and more. I can see why it won't be to everyone's tastes now, but it's impossible to ignore as an influence, personally.
I actually liked "The Great Divide" even though Goscinny didn't write it, but I appreciate it even more as an adult, since it is really about politics and even French politics. A Gaul village is split in two by a great trench, because after the death of their chieftain, the two candidates could not gain a clear advantage over the other. Therefore, they dug a big trench in the middle of town, and there are two gates, and two chieftains. Tournedix is the chieftain of the left side of the village, while Segregationix is chieftain of the right side (he is depicted in a Louis XIV pose and looks a bit like Charles de Gaulle). But Comix, the son of the leftist chieftain, is in love with Fanzine, the right side chieftain's daughter (yes it's a Romeo and Juliet story). He overhears Acidenitrix, Segregationix evil advisor, ploting to get the Romans' help against the other side. Tournedix then sends his son in Armorica, where a good friend with whom he has fought in Gergovia is the chieftain of a village which still holds out against the invaders...
"Asterix and the Black Gold" I also found hilarious. I'm surprised to see it has not been written by Goscinny. Julius Caesar sends a "gallo-roman druid spy" to infiltrate the village, Dubbelosix (a caricature of Sean Connery). He learns that the druid Getafix has run out of precious "rock oil", petra oleum, an important ingredient for the magic potion. He send Asterix and Obelix in Mesopotamia to get some. Dubbelosix will try everything to sabotage their mission. They make an interesting halt in Jerusalem where they sleep in a certain stable under a starry sky... A caustic depiction of the situation in the Near East, as well as a nice spy movie spoof.
Thanks for the great comment!
I do have a soft spot for The Great Divide myself because I like the way the split is done. But I found the central characters in the romance a bit bland (reminded me a bit of the couple in Legionary but with larger roles) and the rift, being around new characters, seemed to come out of nowhere in a place I thought I knew as a reader. A bit jarring but perhaps I should go back and see what I think now.
The story also shares some similarities with Peyo's Smurf Vs Smurf, both in plot points (a divide running through the village) and real-life inspiration (in the case of the Smurfs story, about tensions between French and Flemish speaking groups in Belgium, I think?). But the Smurfs story feels a bit more organic as well as better metatextual fun, and I think having read that before Great Divide also may have robbed the Asterix adventure of its freshness a bit in my eyes.
Still, I think Great Divide would probably be the highest ranked, for me, of the non Goscinny stories that I have read.
Cheers!
The new stories with the new authors are quite good imho, at least they are much better than the last ones Uderzo did by himself.
Oh interesting! Yes, the Uderzo-only ones did slide pretty badly after Great Divide (which, as someone else said in these comments, is the best of the bunch). The new ones seem to have mixed feedback but I wonder if that is our nostalgia interfering. Nothing can equal childhood memories, after all, but I wonder what kids today will think of all of them!
Hey bro,
I have followed your videos...and must say your content & delivery is top notch. Don't know if you would be interested in making a video on the vocabulary used in Asterix comics. The names of characters have inherent meanings too...you would know that too... please give it a thought...it would be fascinating to hear / watch you throw light on those aspects.
Thank you s much! And you're absolutely right, the Wordplay in Asterix is great. The names and places, and puns, seem straightforward if you just say them aloud, so I've wondered if i have anything new to contribute. However, I am sure there's a fun video one can carve out, I just need to work it out 😁
I think the falling sky is terrible, a shame because it is the last of Uderzo's work. Although it is an interesting satire of the European Asterix vs the American comics (Disney and DC) and the Japanese manga, it just feels not that Asterix, having aliens in Asterix while there is so much still to explore in the roman world they are set.
That being said, the new albums after that (there are 4 of these now) are written and drawn by a new duo, with Uderzo's blessing, Jean-Yves Ferri writing and Didier Conrad drawing. I really like them, they are of course different than the Goscinny and Uderzo works, but they feel a bit more grounded in history.
Asterix and the Picts have them go to Scotland, for their first album a decent start but not that special.
Their second Album Asterix and the Missing Scroll is very interesting, it puts up the question why Asterix and his village are not mentioned in Caesar's Bello Gallico.
Then Asterix and the Chariot Race, which has as the title suggest a racing premise, a chariot race around current Italy. What I really liked about this album is that they've shown how there are more tribes of people living in Italy than only the Romans. A bit like Asterix and the Banquet, but then for Italy.
The latest one is Asterix and the Chieftain's daughter, which tells the story of the missing daughter of Vercingetorix, an interesting clash between youth and the older villagers. As it is written in 2019 I think also very actual, as most Asterix albums also where in their days.
I think it is worth checking them out, also the Golden Book could be part of the omnibus collection, I don't really know this collection, that is a celebration story with some characters from long ago.
To close this long comment off, an interesting fact: After Asterix and the Big Fight, the Asterix album have a pattern of albums switching between albums set in Gaul/regional or albums set outside of Gaul.
Yes, I like that alternating between Gaul and abroad, as I mention in the video; it's a wonderful way to spread the jokes and targets of the gentle fun-making across countries/people! 😁
And thanks for the notes on the subsequent books. I agree with you that the Falling Sky was very disappointing, which is also what I felt about _Asterix and the Actress_.
I've heard some people say good things about the newest books and some people say not-so-good things, so I've been on the fence. I well say that The Chariot Race is the one that sounded most appealing, simply because it felt most like a "classic Asterix" premise, as you say. Maybe I'll take aa look, what's the worst that could happen? 😁
I remember borrowing them from the school library in high and middle school ,
Those days were fun
I would have LOVED my school library to have comics, but alas I grew up in a different time 😁
I haven't read many of its comics but i loved asterix the legionary
That's a great one! I think you'll enjoy many of the others, if you get to give them a shot!
I set out to collect replacements for some of my tattered Asterix books last year, but was saddened to see that the fonts used by Orion, and more recently Hachette, have taken a drastic drop from what the lettering used to be. On the Tintin side, I've seen a lot of people complain about the new digitised lettering, but in all honesty that looks very much okay to me compared to the Asterix font-change, which now seems almost a physical eye strain to read. :( I've since abandoned my plan of any Asterix upgrades.
I think I was in a worse position than you - only a couple of my tattered childhood comics remained, so I needed to have the books on my shelves at the very least.
The font, while initially off putting, stopped bothering me once the familiarity kicked in. I was happy the translation was left untouched, perhaps the most disappointing thing about the US Papercutz editions.
Hi, do you think you can get me the full set of Asterix from India? I've seen some sellers online but am afraid they are scams....
Unfortunately I'm just a reader, not a seller/shipper. 😁
But these books are all imports, coming into India from the UK or the US so hopefully they should be easy to get in other countries as well?
"...Overly enamoured or romantically attached."
Beautiful ❤️
Long before I recognised what the difference was, as a child I experienced that disappointed bafflement upon reading the later albums. Goscinny was an outstanding satirist, skewering the 'tempora' and the 'mores' of politics and people then as now with affection, precision and the right dash of devil-may-care honesty. Uderzo could draw but never match the tone of Goscinny's writing. He ended up recycling national stereotypes with no satirical point and no narrative purpose. Thanks for this video - it reminded me of how many wonderful Asterix albums I have to reread!
So glad you enjoyed the video, and I completely agree with how you've represented the talents of Goscinny and Uderzo. Personally, as a child I may not have known the context of what was being (lovingly) skewered, but found the characterizations just complex enough to provide me that background at the same time as seeing it lampooned! That is a sign of mastering the craft, I think, and one of the prime reasons I consider Goscinny's work here so good!
Please make an introduction video for Palastine
I'd love to do a Joe Sacco retrospective some time this year! Definitely high up on the list!
Do you read Manga and if you read what is your favourite manga
I do! Check out my Q&A videos for some small lists!
These Romans are crazy.
*Toctoctoc*
Zigackly!
excellent review! Thank you
Much appreciated, so glad you liked the video!
yo i got the complete collection like 3 days ago neat!!
Nice! Have you started reading/ re-reading them yet?
Just waiting for this video
Hope you like it!
Two also interesting comics drawn by Albert Uderzo "Oumpah-Pah the Redskin" and "Tanguy and Laverdure"
Yes, I've read one Oumpah-Pah story but never any Tanguy. I'll check it out!
@@ftloc Uderzo drawn the first 8 "Tanguy et Laverdure" but because of the success of Asterix he ceased to draw any other series and Tanguy and Laverdure was retook by Jijé (real nameJoseph Gillain who drawned Valhardi, Jerry Spring, Blondin et Cirage and some episodes of Spirou and Fantasio)
As much as I love Tintin and the Barks stuff I also love Asterix ❤
There's no reason to choose; we can read and love them all ♥️
@@ftloc yes, we are lucky 😉
My top 3 1. Legionary. 2. Goths 3. Olympic Games
Do you like livestreams? I have one entirely dedicated to my top 6! 😁
@@ftloc I like Asterix. Can I swap Britain for Olympic Games though? I also like Switzerland, I find quite dark. Not really for children.
I'm glad that Uderzo handed over the right to continue writing Asterix to another artist and author. the series therefore continues. it however sadly wasn't the same with Herge author of The Adventures of Tintin who died before completing his last work Alph Art and someone has to come up with their own made up stories in order to complete the episode. but then again, coming back to Asterix, with both Goscinny and Uderzo gone, the new episodes are no longer the same. and people don't value it as much as before.
Do you think the same would have happened with Tintin if it had continued without Herge, that people would not have liked it as much?
@@ftloc I have that feeling. Depends on how much effort and hard work the new author will put into keeping the original author's legacy alive. the episodes of Asterix too were different after Goscinny was gone.
@@EngPheniks Yes, there's always a balance of the old and new that is very hard to figure out. Recent successes in Blake and Mortimer as well as Lucky Luke show that it doesn't always have to be poorly received though...
23:03 this book was referred multiple times in the 2015 Bollywood film,Tamasha!!
Haha Corsica was? Great trivia, I am now going to have to look that up! Did it have a special significance or was it just along for the ride? 😁
@@ftloc yes.. that film..was shot in Corsica
The book has explicitly been referred by the characters..
The Best? - Switzerland, Goths, Britain, Spain - in that order! :)
No arguments here! Although I do have my own Top 6, as recorded in a livestream, available here: ua-cam.com/users/live8TFqfpKcCoM?feature=share
@@ftloc I'll check it out!
Have you seen the hardcover edition published by Papercutz? Could you compare it with your edition?
Here you go! 😁
ua-cam.com/video/wipG9U2zaOs/v-deo.html
@@ftloc thanks = D
Well colour me green and call me envy...
Haha and I am envious of all those who have the original hardcovers and so on... 🙂
Hi Angshuman, I searched few of the omnibus on amazon and saw the prices between 680-850. Is this the normal range or does it fall lower?
I got a couple for 500 but most cost me around 600-700. Any more than 700 and I would wait and see if the price drops (I just got them out of order, as you see in the video)
The only problem is if they become hard to find or our of print, then the regret is terrible! 😁
@@ftloc Thanks for letting me know. One of the books is currently at 682, the rest are above 700. So I'd rather wait for the prices to get lower.
And thanks for your lovely videos regarding Asterix and Tintin that I got back to my love for comics which I left long back and now I am looking to complete the collection for both.
The only solo Uderzo album I liked was Chez Rahazade. The others were pretty disappointing indeed (when they weren’t outright terrible and insulting like Le Ciel Lui Tombe Sur La Tête).
EDIT: Was that Hilda in your intro? Oohboy, I must check if you talked about that one as well, I love this comics.
It's an old video, but you may like my 'Best Comics for Young Readers' video here: ua-cam.com/video/583k41sYsTk/v-deo.html
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@@ftloc Thanks, I'm gonna give it a watch.
why are the likes and dislikes disabled?
They're only disabled from public view - I still get to see every like and dislike. I just had some random thoughts about public scoring and why people hit dislike etc (that I won't get into here) so I made the likes and dislikes non public. I still appreciate all the likes, and even more I appreciate the conversations! 🙂
I thought thier where Vikings.
They do meet Vikings in Asterix and the Normans! 😁
I don't know what this video has, but I just come back to this again and again! Love your videos and it has elevated my urge to collect all the volumes, especially with these Omnibus ones.
I'm thrilled you've enjoyed the video so much, and so glad to see another collection in the making! 😁
@@ftloc Yeah, already bought two volumes. 😁
Your collection is better than a roast boar.
Haha thank you! Is it better than a magic potion though? 😁
Thank you very much for your video. Very enjoyable. Been a fan of Asterix for about 35 years and my whole family for maybe 45-50 in all. I’m my house we have them in Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese,ñ, and English!
Wow, that sounds like an amazing collection! Do you have pictures somewhere inline I could look at? 😁
So glad you enjoyed this video, that's such high praise coming from a superfan like you!
I think Asterix and the roman agent is very common today. Since I think people today getting very pissed up very easy.
But at the end of the Asterix story they all make up and get along...😀
@@ftloc So true!
Such an Underrated Channel.
So kind of you, that's much appreciated! 😊