Asterix Versus Caesar Reviews
Description:ISBN 0340397233 /
Newest Review: ... - a 1973 "Tintin Film Book" based on an animated feature of the same name. Like that book, Asterix Versus Caesar ... more
... lacks that trademark charm and nuance you get from the bona fide series. An occasional feeling of depth (inherent from its construction as stills from the animated feature) is mildly interesting though. The story begins much as it does in Goscinny & Uderzo's Asterix the Legionary. Obelix falls in love with the beautiful blonde bombshell Panecea (drawn as a curvaceous caricature of a young Brigitte Bardot) but is heartbroken when he learns that she is already engaged to the square jawed Tragicomix. Our portly hero is...more
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by - written on 24/03/13 (Very useful, 77 readings)
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Asterix Versus Caesar is a non-canonical book adaptation of the 1985 animated film Astérix et la surprise de César. It's hardly essential but curious completists will probably want to have a look at some point. Astérix et la surprise de César was based on Goscinny & Uderzo's Asterix the Legionary and Asterix the Gladiator. Pierre Tchernia (a friend of Goscinny & Uderzo) shunted the two books into one story for the film (which I'm not familiar with to be honest) rather in the same manner that Steven Spielberg's disappointing The Secret of the Unicorn borrowed from two or three Tintin books to make one story. I find this approach to adapting Tintin and Asterix for . Read the complete review
