I read all of them over and over again as a child, then one more full reading in my 20s. They were even better as an adult. One of the oddities is that the names in English are actually much funnier than the original French names, e.g. Unhygienix the fishmonger, Getafix the druid, Fullyautomatix who makes the weapons. These two authors brought so many hours, days and years of joy. A life well lived
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#12The Asterix comics really never caught on in the US, so I sadly have not read any of them, but multiple people that I respect have told me that I really need to check them out. To someone who is almost completely unfamiliar with the material, what would be a good place to start?
Anything before the death of Goscinny, that is up to and including nr. 24, Asterix in Belgium. Some personal favourites are all the ones named Asterix in , Asterix and Cleopatra (that nose!), Asterix and the Normans, Asterix and the Soothsayer, but it's extremely hard to choose.
Also, check out other franco-belgian comics like Lucky Luke and Gaston Lagaffe.
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#13The Asterix comics really never caught on in the US, so I sadly have not read any of them, but multiple people that I respect have told me that I really need to check them out. To someone who is almost completely unfamiliar with the material, what would be a good place to start?
I have read the English(British) translations and the American as well. In terms of the humour and slick wordplay they seemed quite different if not poles apart. Those American editions did nothing for me, some of them almost felt like an act of sacrilege. I guess its a cultural thing -- to give a trivial example, the name Readymix just isn't as funny as Getafix.
Apparently the notion of getting a fix was something that American children needed to be protected from.
"He was called Readymix (the name of a British cement firm) in newspaper comics during the 1970s, as Getafix was considered inappropriate for children." [0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asterix_characters#Get...
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#14Ah, I used to love the Asterix books as a kid!
I also remember having a game, "Asterix and Obelix", I think it was called, though I can't recall if it was on the Atari ST or Commodore 64 - it was quite a complex game for the time, and my brothers and I were obsessed with it!
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#15I don't think I could ever fully forgive him for continuing the series after Goscinny's passing. While a handful may have been good (I like "L'Odyssée d'Astérix" a lot) most of them were average/bad. That being said, as an absolute fan since I was 7 years old, this makes me very sad.
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#16The Asterix comics really never caught on in the US, so I sadly have not read any of them, but multiple people that I respect have told me that I really need to check them out. To someone who is almost completely unfamiliar with the material, what would be a good place to start?
While stories are mostly standalones, there are sometimes references to past events/characters, so maybe it's better to just start with the first one!
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#17The Asterix comics really never caught on in the US, so I sadly have not read any of them, but multiple people that I respect have told me that I really need to check them out. To someone who is almost completely unfamiliar with the material, what would be a good place to start?
an easy would be the animated movie "The twelve tasks of Asterix"
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#18The complete set of Asterix is on archive.org
https://archive.org/details/Asterixcompleteset/mode/2up
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#19I spent hours of my childhood reading Asterix, Tintin and Gaston [0]. Each had an amazing slightly different universe.
Now living in the US it always amazes me how different the Comics culture over here is.
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#20From the 12 Tasks of Asterix: The Place That Sends You Mad