The story in a nutshell. Caesar wrote a book, a papyrus, about his Gallic conquests. His adviser Promoplus advises him to leave one chapter out. This is the unfortunate village of Asterix and Obelix. Polemix has gotten hold of this chapter and wants to publish it so the world will know about it. With the Romans on his heels he flies to the village of Asterix. The Gallians do not believe in the written word. They think that Caesar's book is quickly forgotten. But they see the importance of having the chapter in collective memory. In the Carnuten forest, druid Archeopterix lives. He is a kind of human Wikipedia. So Asterix, Obelix and Panoramix leave for the forest. Polemix remains in the village.
The story has a lot of word jokes and fighting. The story is from Jean-Yves Ferri and the drawings are from Didier Conrad. The duo has also made the previous Asterix album. I already thought that was a nice album and this album does not disappoint eighter. There are many funny references to the present. One important thing is that Polemix is based on Julian Assange, the man behind Wikileaks. The character should first be called Wikilix, but because of the rights, it could not be used. That’s a shame, because that made the link more clear. I did not get it at first now. I read it in another review. But when I knew, I was going to see this comic in another daylight. It's my first time reading an Asterix that has a political theme. I’d like them to do that more often.
The drawings are also good, totally in the style of Uderzo. Just fine.
I therefore highly recommend this album.
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Genre: Humor
Links:
Asterix and the missing scroll on Catawiki
Jean-Yves Ferri on the Comiclopedia
Didier Conrad on the comiclopedia
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