Asterix and the Picts

[Loki]

http://www.theguardian.com/books/cartoon/2013/oct/23/new-asterix-and-the-picts-comic-image


News: Asterix embarks on fresh story (http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/22/asterix-adventure-new-artists-first)

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/BOOKS/Pix/pictures/2013/10/23/1382519438016/Asterix-and-the-Picts-002.jpg

[Rudel]

After Goscinny died Astérix was barely the shadow of its former self, and now that Uderzo's leaving it too it's just a scam.

They did the same thing recently to Alix after Jacques Martin was forced to stop working due to his health (he's dead now), and it became utter shit.
But I doubt Alix is nearly as known as Astérix outside the French-speaking world.

[Loki]

Never heard of Alix before.

[Rudel]

Never heard of Alix before.
A series set in ancient Rome, extremely typical of the Franco-Belgian school in style and narration (Jacques Martin was a close collaborator of Hergé for almost twenty years). I highly recommend it.

http://napoleonbonaparte.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/alix-lintrepide.jpg

[Ulex]

I always fear the worse, when a good old concept like this is left in the hands of new cartoonists. Chances always are that it will be infested with the much celebrated multiculturalism. Let's see, if a new character is going to be introduced to the series; a hero of colour and the usual superiour moral fibre.

I may be a little pessimistic here. Or experienced, whatever.

Thank god they let Tintin die an honourable "dead" along with his creator.

[Dombra]

It can´t be worse than the one with the aliens :shrug: