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Provisional cover of the new album entitled “Astérix en Lusitanie”, with the characters stepping on the typical Portuguese sidewalk.
The next Astérix and Obélix comic adventure will take these two characters for the first time to the former Lusitania, a territory that is today Portugal. The book leaves on October 23rd and on the provisional cover is already seen the Portuguese sidewalk.
What a good surprise to comicious comicity. For the first time, Adventures of Astérix and Obélix will pass in Lusitano territory.
To the 41st album, the story – passed in the time of the Romans – will put the two intrepid Gauls in former Lusitania and will make several references to the history, culture and “archetypes” of Portugal.
In the French press was released a provisional cover of the new album, entitled “Asterix in Lusitania”with the pair of characters setting a typical Portuguese sidewalk.
Last December, Editora Éditions Albert René had already announced that, on the 41st album, Astérix and Obélix would leave the irreducible Gaulesa village for a trip.
“I looked for a destination where our friends were never, but also a place where I wanted to dive while writing,” the Argumentista said at the time FabCaro quoted by the publisher.
In the same statement, which announces the edition of the album a October 23 simultaneously, the designer Didier Conrad He said the chosen place inspired him a lot to draw.
Info: Asterix and Obelix’s next album will be called “Asterix in Lusitania” and will therefore take place in Portugal! A “nameless” character in the “Domaine des Dieux” will come and ask our two Gauls to help …
— Laurent Marsick 📻 (@lmarsick)
Astérix and Obélix as Viriato
A, the ambassador of Portugal in France, José Augusto Duartehe said that “just like the Gauls, the brave Lusitanians, commanded by Bravo Viriatofought against the Roman Empire, defending its valuestraditions and freedom. The alliance with Asterix and Obélix in this fight is welcome. ”
In Portugal, the stories of Astérix and Obélix are published by the Leya group which last January had already announced that the new album would leave on October 23.
René Goscinny an Albert Underzo They made known the universe of Astérix on October 29, 1959, on the pages of the French magazine Pilote, and the partnership lasted until 1977, the year of the death of the Argumentista.
The first volume, entitled “Astérix, The Gaul” and which came out in 1961he had a small crumbly lampsharies who had as a great friend Obélix, a clumsy character with a hungry force that carried girls and loved to eat wild boars.
Both are inhabitants of an invincible village that resists the military onslaught of the Romans, directed by Julius Caesar, thanks to a secret magic potion invented by the Druid Panoramix.
This will be the 41st album of one of the best known and sold comic book series, originally signed by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo and currently continues with the authors Fabcaro and Didider Conrad.
