In which Asterix, Obelix, and Cacofonix travel to India on a magic carpet. It was fast-moving enough to entertain me as a kid, but in hindsight it marks the start of an era where Uderzo is out of new ideas for stories and relies on novelty to drive the series. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-08-22 08:01:08 Associated-names Goscinny, 1926-1977. Astérix gladiateur. English; Goscinny, 1926-1977. Tour de Gaule d'Astérix. English; Goscinny, 1926-1977. Astérix et Cléopâtre. English; Uderzo, ill Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40658622 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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Obelix decides to join a chariot race across the homeland of the Romans, Italy, accompanied by Asterix and Dogmatix. The race takes them to Venexia, Florencia, Neapolis, Sena Julia and other locations. A fakir from far-away India travels to Asterix's village and asks Cacofonix to save his land from drought since his singing can cause rain. Cacofonix, accompanied by Asterix and Obelix, must travel to India aboard a magic carpet to save the life of the princess Orinjade, who is to be sacrificed to stop the drought. Whosemoralsarelastix, chief of a nearby village, asks Vitalstatistix to hide his village's money to prevent the Romans from taking it. When the money is stolen under his watch, Asterix is banished until he can repay the money and recover his honour.

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Most Asterix fans will agree that the Goscinny era is the franchise’s strongest. Uderzo’s first books after Goscinny’s sudden passing are enjoyable, but his later efforts are problematic. The recent efforts from Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad are worthy – a rebound from Uderzo’s later albums, but not as strong as Goscinny’s best. books from Asterix and the Great Divide (1980) to Asterix and the Falling Sky (2005) written and illustrated by Albert Uderzo Ocr tesseract 5.2.0-1-gc42a Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.5080 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0001290 Openlibrary_edition

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a b Mark Kennedy (July 8, 2019). "Comic hero 'Asterix' plans friendly assault on the New World". The Chronicle-Journal.Classic French Comic 'Asterix' to Get U.S. Rollout in 2020 | Hollywood Reporter". www.hollywoodreporter.com. Asterix and Obelix visit a village split in half by its rival chiefs. However, one chief's son and the other's daughter are in love, and together with Asterix and Obelix, they reunite the village. The dividing chasm is an allusion to the Berlin Wall, while the star-crossed lovers plot recalls Romeo and Juliet. [1] In November 2019 it was announced that the american publisher Papercutz would take over the american licence for the comic title Asterix and begin to reprint all of its stories in an Omnibus series begining in 2020. Future volumes was said to be planned to get released at a pace of four volumes per year. [1] The series was initially planned to launch with its first two volumes concurrent on May 19, 2020. [2] However due to the 2020 pandemic their release date was pushed forward til July the same year. [3] The first volume Asterix Omnibus Vol. 1 was finally launched to the US market on July 14, 2020 with a print run of 20,000 hardcover copies plus an additional 50,000 softcover copies. [4] Format