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...been 50 years since the small but cunning warrior Asterix and his podgy stonemason pal Obelix began battling the armies of Julius Caesar in their remote village on the Brittany coast - the only part of ancient Gaul never conquered by the Romans. The latest episode in the pair's comic-strip adventures was released in France last month to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first Asterix story, written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo for the magazine Pilote. The new book, Asterix and Obelix's Birthday: The Golden Book, is the 34th in a series...
...film is based on the 1968 comic book of the same name, which was the 12th in the series of 33 about Asterix and his portly friend Obelix, who travel to Olympia in Greece to compete in the games...
...Their complaints are unlikely to dim the movie's prospects. The reviews were similarly scathing back in 1998 for the first Asterix film - Asterix and Obelix versus Caesar, which sold 25 million tickets, 15 million of them overseas, and only slightly better for 2002's Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, which did almost as well. Asterix has a massive fan base to draw upon: the comic books have sold 330 million copies in over 100 languages. While France likes to boast of its high-brow credentials, Asterix books easily outsell those of worthy rivals Proust, Sartre and Balzac...
...grateful students take advantage of the bookstores' ample repertoire. "I love the kids' books. I have learnt so much German through them," Morey says. And, according to Gabriel Piedrahita '96, "They have the best Asterix and Obelix selection around...
...These Romans are crazy," Asterix and his friend Obelix used to say. Then they'd go out and smash the Romans...
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