Asterix
I have no idea if anyone has mentioned Asterix yet, and I can't be bothered to search through the QOTW. Asterix definitely belongs here, for several reasons. Brilliant, painstaking graphic detail and imagination. Most of all, the sheer humour. So many jokes that a child won't get; I think every time I've read one of the books I've found something funny I missed earlier. Love all the classical allusions. I couldn't conceive of having children without giving them Asterix to read.
(anvil, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 13:38, 32 replies)

It's shit in English though.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 13:46, closed)

Disagree.
Asterix is probably the only thing I've ever read where the jokes work better in translation than in the original. Yes, I do get the jokes in the original; they're just not as funny.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 13:48, closed)

Balls.
The only joke that's better in English is Idéfix → Dogmatix. The rest of the humour in the English versions is like a 1980s sitcom.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 13:58, closed)

I read an interview with Goscinny and Uderzo where they said Asterix worked better in English
It being the language of puns. Just ask James Joyce.
(McChinaman banned, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 23:42, closed)

No, you didn't.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 11:25, closed)

Nope. Try again.

(anvil, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 13:52, closed)

It's shit in English though.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 13:59, closed)

Again! Again!
*claps like an excited seal*
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 19:15, closed)

C'est d'la merde en Anglais pourtant.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 22:11, closed)

Nope.
The magic's gone, now.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 12:04, closed)

[offline distraught face]

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 12:41, closed)

Yeah, especially the visual humour,
;)
(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 15:45, closed)

Those stripey pants are definitely funniest in the Serbo-croat version.
I have no idea if there's a serbo-croat version
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 16:26, closed)

if you can't conceive
there's no need to worry about children
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 13:54, closed)

Hehehe, didn't see that one at all!

(anvil, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 13:58, closed)

:D

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 14:11, closed)

Yep
Brilliant books, I read these endlessly when I was a nipper. Asterix in Britain is a comedy classic.

(Dunno about the newer ones though)
( Finite "Aardvark sorted out my shit!" on, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 15:04, closed)

Hit and miss.

(Sivvus trolley collision in the fruit aisle led to a jam, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 15:45, closed)

Asterix and the Falling Sky was utterly godawful.
Goscinny had long since snuffed it by this point and Uderzo somehow thought it would be a good idea to combine Asterix and space aliens. Space aliens. A less appropriate plot device for the Asterix comics I cannot imagine.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 16:34, closed)

An Asterix/Wolverine cross over.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 16:57, closed)

*

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 15:57, closed)

I see what you did there.

(anvil, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:01, closed)

I'm glad someone did

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 9:10, closed)

†

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:29, closed)

Wasted on this lot.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 22:07, closed)

are you saying you're cross?

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 9:10, closed)

It's what Obelisk was named after.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 11:25, closed)

ooooooooooooh

(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 12:32, closed)

I'm such a fucking smart arse.
No wonder everybody thinks I'm a cunt.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 12:40, closed)

Much to like
Pisses Tintin on which seems to get far too much credit
(unclestinky, Tue 10 Jan 2012, 17:28, closed)

I found an Asterix book in Amsterdam when I was 18
The Dutch always have to go too far don't they?

I remember a close up of Getafix in a 69 with Geriatrix's wife and Obelix's dripping dick hanging down to the floor over the top of his mammoth trousers.

I just wish I could read Dutch, as I'm sure I was missing all the subtle word play...
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Wed 11 Jan 2012, 16:10, closed)

I never read Tintin as a kid, but Asterix remains one of my favourites. 'ave a click
(Avnas dosh!, Thu 12 Jan 2012, 5:40, closed)