Asterisk pours a slightly hazy, golden color. I need to pay attention to that with the next book… I wonder how it sizes up to the work Carl Barks was doing in the 1950s, too. Unfortunately, Caesar has conquered Britain now — all except for one small village that Anticlimax lives in. Its not Aidebaran, nor Alderbaran but of course ALDEBARAN. The font size on the lettering takes a hit to make sure everything can fit inside the borders. The vibe is comfortable elegance. (“read” might be too strong a word. (And keep it up, gang. It’s OK. Heck, there are books people swear are awesome today that I thought were done better twenty years ago, too. I can only imagine how much harder it would be when translating into a language known for very long words, like German for instance. Each winner will be eligible for winning one Prize under this Contest only. I’m curious to see if my opinion as changed now about 35 years later. Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub native to Asia. Aroma is dank and hoppy with a touch of caramel malt. I think you should do the top 10 series you think Cinebook should translate into English someday. The local pub does not server boar to Obelix’s liking, and the beer is — warm. Tea leaves - Trace elements online at LGC Standards. Now all of this has to be taken in the context that Asterix by the number is bloody brilliant and better than 96% of the comics you can read. Comics analyst and industry pundit since 1997. https://alastairsavage.wordpress.com/2012/12/12/asterixs-magic-potion/, https://www.lambiek.net/artists/u/uderzo_marcel.htm. There’s some absolutely wonderful moments, the Romans testing the wine, the prison break is gold, the poor old pirates. From the description of that animated series, it sounded like they knew what kind of show they wanted to do, and then they found a pre-existing property to shoe-horn into it. UGH. Even I, a philosophy and literature major, recognizes that most french millenials today would not recognise half the words on the page. Yes! I always assumed he did.). Someday, I’ll get that movie and review it here. Or did something change with the word balloons or lettering in this book? Those are not very good. It mixes in the history of the Roman conquest of Europe well with Asterix’s continuity, gives us a funny representation of the British, and has a strong story behind it. And they also parodied Rocky and Rambo on Walter Melon is what I forgot on your 1st Walter Melon comment there. Even now, there aren’t many I prefer. Some good ones that might have been a half page gag of their own instead get tossed off in a secondary line of dialogue in a single balloon. Why are we ending the book with two panels to clearly explain an obvious gag? Caesar, using his famous military genius decides to fight only when they stop to drink hot water and weekends. I might have to, though, because I want to do a story on the original art situation there one of these days…. I think this book benefits by being translated by a couple of Brits, who know the stereotypes they’re making fun of very well, indeed. Don’t try that at home. Walter Melon was called Walter Melon Hero for Hire in the late 1990’s Walter Melon series. For a very long time, that was the only Asterix page available for sale on the auction market. Earlier in the book, Obelix is sent up to the London Tower to be jailed. Their leaders are gung ho enough to not care. In that one, Asterix is given it as a reward from an Indian merchant who he saved from the pirates, who remarks after the Gauls depart that they were “saved for the price of some useless herbs”. sigh, This comment is sad: “Then, after having supported many “miseries” of my elder, I wanted to go it alone. The national observations I can enjoy all the more as they are closer to home. This might make for the beginnings of another good tie-in article to The Asterix Agenda…. I’ve not seen the film but man that is a better way to handle it! In an era where we've been indundated with comic book-based movies, those Guallic warriors Asterix and Obelix have flown under the rader. The fight was over that quickly this week. Has the fog gotten better in London in recent years? I did an article back in 2017. Which was 46 years after the book came out, and 26 years after the animated film came out. I don’t know if you have Netflix but if so, watch the first series of The Crown which has a whole episode on a dreadful fog back in the 1950s, before the government brought in the Clean Air Act of 1956. I always felt the film adaption handled the tea aspect better. A Few Translation Tactics. The fog rolls in multiple times, usually when it’s convenient to the plot, but who cares? I can think of one or two books I remember fondly that I can’t wait to get to, mostly because it does completely different and interesting things. The space has floor to ceiling bookshelves, wine lockers and a beautiful bar. There is absolutely nothing (well very very little) wrong with this comic, its really, really good and I laughed out loud any number of times, there’s just nothing to make it stand out for me in the Asterix canon. I don’t know, but I’d love it if they did. They all have stiff upper lips, a break for what would eventually become tea time, and the desire to help one another with a righteous “what” or “wot.”. (And just be grateful that they didn’t decide to try to “sculpt” the art with the colors. It’s not just the British, though. They just miss each other going up and down the tower, causing them to reverse course to find each other, only to have to fight through some Romans. The illegal immigrant in Astérix's boat turns out to be an Indian, who happens to have a tea plant with him. None of the Cinebooks have fine dialogue and I do put that down to the translation. When my mum was young she had the pea soupers though. I’ve always grown up with those stories, too. I’m sure there can’t be many later books where they do that. There will be times when saying the same thing in English will be much longer than in the original French. I guess it’s the way of the world. One small oddity here is that they left Dogmatix at home. Ok, that’s clever and I’ll give Goscinny point for using the leaves well. I just realize that in that way, Asterix ruined my life and made me totally impervious to mediocrity. I also think it lacks a delicious sinister villain that will serve so many of the later books so well and we saw start to develop with Felonius Caucus last time in Big Fight. The letterers fought to fit all the words into certain word balloons. Modern technology generally serves only to increase efficiency at the expense of quality. Julius Caesar has invaded Britain and succeeded, mainly because the British soldiers under Cassivelaunos stop fighting every day to drink hot water (with a drop of milk), and refuse to fight over the weekend. I’ve moved to grabbing panels from the digital remastering (2010, I think) for speed of production’s sake, but I’m still reading the print editions from 2004 first. But of course. It must be a hangover from the 1950s and the pea soupers of yore. As with Gaul, a single village remains independent, defying the Romans. Answer 5: Asterix in Britain FOLLOW TELEGRAM CHANNEL (44K) Eh, what! That explains a lot. Yes they did including James Bond, Mission Impossible, Star Wars, Star Trek, Tarzan, Indiana Jones, Superman, Batman, The Terminator, The Alien series, Zorro, The Karate Kid, Back to the Future, The Blob, Robo Cop, Spider Man, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America, The Power Rangers, The X Men, The Man with no name series, And in the show’s 2nd season Walter Melon parodied historical figures to make the series more educational. Your IP: 5.189.141.253 It’s a tie. The 1977 Walter Melon book Magnesia’s Treasure was translated into English by Dargaud Canada in 1981, and it’s the only time Walter Melon has been translated into English ever in the series’ history. LEGIONARY, SPAIN, CORSICA AND SWITZERLAND for the traveling ones + a few really good ones set in the village, before it all went downhill when Gosciny passed away. Show Answer. Of course Asterix putting the herbs in his pocket for no apparent reason in the first place is a bit weak, but I’ll let that slide. It also gets to a point I half made not that long ago about the worries I have that the series becomes a template with all the same jokes and just new funny names slotted in. I actually opened up a later volume at random the other day and, uhm, wasn’t too happy with what they had evolved into later in life. Asterix was one thing but it didn’t have cowsboys fighting dinosuars in it and you need that kind of balance in your life… no really you do. I have to draw 100 Roman soldiers lining up to open wine barrels already, as it is.” At least they took a panel to have Obelix say goodbye to Dogmatix before they left. I certainly agree with you Colin. I’ve “grown up” with the 2004 coloring job, which definitely has its drawbacks too. The Romans do it, too. I’m reminded a bunch of The Goofy Gophers this week, those pair of furry Warner Bros. cartoon creatures who were always unendingly polite to each other. But, yeah, the new version looks like it was designed to take advantage of modern coloring methods. The British in this book, in particular, are a very loquacious lot. All great names. Just to correct myself: Marcel Uderzo worked on Asterix from the “Cleopatra” volume through “The Laurels of Caesar”, and then “The Great Crossing” through “Belgium.” Then Marcel went solo and they had their falling out. Anticlimax goes to France to get Asterix’s help with some Magic Potion to continue to defend his homeland. I can't believe how much Uptown Westerville is changing. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. I’m English myself and the thought of warm beer repulses me too – but then my tipples of choice are cider and red wine not beer. So much happens in the book that there’s a chance you might have forgotten about the tea leaves by the time Asterix pulls it out to use as a plot device. hey you did something Augie, I can see my mugshot here now Cool. When Anticlimax offers Obelix the chance to “shake me by the hand,” well, you can imagine what that kind of handshake will look like: Several British-isms become running gags in the book. It is a masterwork of its time, so rooted in the 1960s, even moreso than Asterix, that I wish it was not continued after Michel Grec died. I’ll skip over the drunken Roman soldiers to get to the other two. And, because this book was created in the middle of the 1960s: The Beatles make a cameo. I’ve flipped through them and been introduced to a lot of new stuff.). It works. It is this sudden independence that my brother did not endure and never forgave me. Randomly nitpicking here, otherwise it’s a great book, made slightly less so by the animated movie adaptation that somehow annoys me to no end despite being very faithful to the original (mostly because of the terrible voice casting of Obelix who, from now on, sounds like a complete moron). List out the social ills practised against woman in our society. Greg was a genial storyteller and it’s overwhelming to consider his body of work as a writer on so many different series on top of this one. As you might imagine, Obelix is a natural for the game. Unlike JC I love the Leo Aidebaran and associated stuff. There is so much money involved that there is also a feud between Uderzo and Anne Goscinny, René’s daughter that has been going on for ages. All the pieces are there, and the end results are obvious. The Goths ( Germans) are regimental, curt and militaristic ; The British are too polite, slightly pompous, boil all their meat ( with mint sauce) and drink hot water with a ‘drop’ of milk ( Asterix brings them the magic of tea leaves). Every generation gets its own style of coloring. It’s somewhat all relative, I think. They fit into the scenes they’re a part of. These gags are all inserted at perfect times. That would certainly be a daunting task. and others Augie discusses on Pipeline it boggles me that the UK comics industry has suffered so and comic shops are dominated by US material, great though some of it is, not our own and things from our nearest neighbours. 7. Asterix in Spain. we, who are destined to die, salute you." It works really well. sigh. Since then, we no longer see each other, but we greet each other at family funerals. Iaso Tea claims and asterisks. Its good, its great in fact, its is Asterix after all, its packed with sharp humour, good characters and a great story. Even with nice-sized, traditional ones like the ones in ASTERIX, lettering still has to be tight at times to fit all the words in (which I think should always trump the aesthetic effect), but there are tons of books with very snug bubbles that hug the words and leave no wiggle room whatsoever, which makes it difficult for translators and letterers. Leaving the dog behind seems weird and they shouldn’t’ do that every again. The thing that grabs me about this book is how Goscinny plots out rising action in some of the biggest set pieces. Ha. It started with two pages per week in the early issues of Pilote, then quicky scaled down to one page per week as the popularity of the series exploded and the production load of both Goscinny (he was doing the Dingodossiers with Gotlib, Iznogoud with Tabary, Lucky Luke with Morris, and a few others) and Uderzo (Tanguy et Laverdure with Charlier, which is also a great series) got heavier. And every generation of colorist thinks they know best. The highest quality reference standards for industrial analysis and testing. It was weather, not pollution. They stop for Tea every day (making do with hot water and a drop of milk until Asterix brings them actual tea leaves), drink lukewarm beer and eat tasteless foods with mint sauce . I might need to research some things here. Asterix- The Gaul. There’s a lot of wine. Taste is pure tropical fruit and tea leaves. whew, I have also noticed that in reprints of Marvel comics, they often now remove the colorist from the credits box, because those comics too have been recoloured. Even then it was never a pea-souper. Am I just noticing this more for the first time with this book than in the past? You can guess how well that effort stuck. COVID update: Asterisk Supper Club has updated their hours, takeout & delivery options. It’s a progression of word balloons emanating from the Tower. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience of our website. Yep for me its Legionary that defines the start of the ‘golden age’ of Asterix, be interesting to see if that holds but its a watershed volume, if not actually my favourite. As an American, I can empathize with Obelix here, and I don’t even drink. Poor me. But, then, on the last page in the last two panels, Getafix smugly tells us these leaves are tea leaves and — we’re supposed to be surprised? Letterhack from 1991. Just like they do on Watch Mojo and other You Tube channels like Watch Mojo. I have no idea why WordPress suddenly put all your comments in the moderation panel for approval. Thanks to our hero, the Britons discovered tea and the Belgians were inspired to make French fries! From there, they can see the effects of the Magic Potion start to creep in, and realize that they can’t afford to waste more time. Okay so I say I love the series and its going to take me three goes to get the title right. Picture Marx Brothers or Abbott and Costello here. Step 4: Tap or Click on the Amazon The Tea lovers quiz banner & Quiz will start after clicking “Start” button. They tried but it was a massive flop. There’s spy craft, chases, derring do, and jailbreaks (of course) to fill out this story. Still, outside of just the initial growing pains of a series trying to find its look, there are then differences within a single brother’s style. In Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia the Britons all wore woollen pullovers and Tam o' shanters. The Britons, who are similar to the Gauls (they are descended from Gaulish tribes who crossed the … Yes, you could make balloons larger, but then you’re changing the art and production gets more complicated. It doesn’t sound like Achille Talon to me at all, even given what very little I’ve seen of it. It must be frustrating for the original colorists though (I wonder if Goscinny coloured his own art? A group of neighboring tribe leaders has come together, determined to fend off the Romans in one last stand. From the translations of various articles I’ve read this year, I can’t tell if Marcel colored the early books, all the books, or the books after Albert brought him on full time to help with inks and colors in 1967. Speaking of tight lettering, I wish more comics authors would think “internationally” and thus be more generous with the size of their speech bubbles. I guessed the translation was probably to blame. As for the Asterix comic book series, it has been the sensation of the publishing world for 60 years while the character Asterix has become a mythical figure, a symbol throughout the world for all who resist the influence of Empires trying to impose their will and law on others. But the action grows as the scene develops. I mean, unless he wears waterproof pants I guess. I think for me these early volumes are all about the develop, watching the series grow and get better and better and better and that’s the one thing this comic lacks, it feels like Asterix (of this period) by the numbers, we’re seen it before. I can understand your rating there. A few quick thoughts on all the great discussion above. because Goscinny possibly couldn’t think of another way for him to acquire them… also he just stuffs them in his pocket, meaning they should have been ruined when Asterix and his pals take a forced river bath after a roman attack, a detail that could have been fixed if he had carried them in a pouch or something. These are kids books, and I’m pretty sure at 7-8 when I first read it, that was a complete surprise to me. But, yeah, I bet you’re right. Fingers crossed. Performance & security by Cloudflare, Please complete the security check to access. "Hail Caesar! Each winner will be required to claim the Prize as per the requirements prescribed below in these T&Cs. And, occasionally, they follow their directions so close to the letter that they run astray of common sense. Asterix, going off to England, for some random reason grabs a random bunch of leaves off Getafix’s work table to bring with him. 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