Book log 2018 #22- ASTERIX AND OBELIX ALL AT SEA
22) ASTERIX AND OBELIX: ALL AT SEA by Uderzo
First time I've read Asterix in years, but it still holds up, despite Rene Goscinny's death leaving Uderzo as sole creator. In this one, Obelix is reduced to childhood while aCaesar's galley is stolen by Spartakis [sic]. There are all the usual tropes and puns, the art of course remains as distinctive as always (thick-lipped black caricatures included, though bear in mind that all the races as caricatured in a stereotypical way that changing probably would stand out worse), and it was as entertaining as I always found them - though not reaching the peaks of the classics from the 60s and 70s. The plot does peter out towards the end, as if Uderzo suddenly realised he'd gone for a multilayered thing and only had three pages left in the format, but... Look, it's Asterix, it does what it says on the tin. And bonus points for the Apicius and culinary references, and Spartakis being drawn to look like Kirk Douglas...
First time I've read Asterix in years, but it still holds up, despite Rene Goscinny's death leaving Uderzo as sole creator. In this one, Obelix is reduced to childhood while aCaesar's galley is stolen by Spartakis [sic]. There are all the usual tropes and puns, the art of course remains as distinctive as always (thick-lipped black caricatures included, though bear in mind that all the races as caricatured in a stereotypical way that changing probably would stand out worse), and it was as entertaining as I always found them - though not reaching the peaks of the classics from the 60s and 70s. The plot does peter out towards the end, as if Uderzo suddenly realised he'd gone for a multilayered thing and only had three pages left in the format, but... Look, it's Asterix, it does what it says on the tin. And bonus points for the Apicius and culinary references, and Spartakis being drawn to look like Kirk Douglas...