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Asterix and Son (The Adventures of Asterix)

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For some one 48 and getting older, I thoroughly loved this one. Remarkable ending to the usual Asterix comic. Loved the character of Dogmatix the dog in this issue.

Big fan on all Asterix comic books. They are basicly super hero story that take place during 50BC, but funny using a lot of word play. Excellent art work. I think they are better than american comics

Asterix finds a foundling at his doorstop. Obelix of course thinks the Stork brought him. They make a minor mistake or too giving him a bottle that has some magic potion still in it.

It turns out the child is likely to be a highborn Roman, so they go touring and looking for the father. It takes the arrival of other royalty for them to learn the truth.

Albert Uderzo, Asterix and Son (Dargaud, 1985)

A bundle of joy appears mysteriously on Asterix's doorstep, and Asterix and Obelix set out to figure out whose he is and why he got dropped off with Asterix. Wagging tongues follow, of course, and the child's parentage turns out to be an even more convoluted question than originally thought. I've really been somewhat surprised by the all-Uderzo books; I expected I wouldn't like them nearly as much as the Goscinny books, but Uderzo seems to have kept the series going quite capably, at least at the beginning. I liked it just as much as most of the previous books. ***

"Asterix and Son" is the 27th comic in the Asterix series, written and illustrated by Albert Udzero in 1983. It's a pretty good one, even if it is just set around the Gaulish village where Asterix lives.

Obelix is Asterix's friend, and even though he's old enough to have his own menhir business and grow his own moustache, still believes that babies come from the stork, and is even more convinced when Asterix finds a baby on his doorstep. The Romans seem very interested in the baby, including Brutus, Julius Caesar's friend...

Worth a look for fans. There's a lot of gags and character play, which is interesting since it was written by the illustrator, (both ways a good job, I thought).

First published in French in 1983 as Le fils d'Astérix, and in English the same year.
Asterix and Obelix must deal with the strange phenomenon of a baby boy, dropped on Asterix' doorstep.
This is one particular challenge they have not dealt with before.
While we puzzle over the mystery of the baby's birth, the villainous, power-hungry, Brutus is hell-bent on getting his hands on the child, whatever it takes.
Meanwhile the cherub-like baby accidentally ingests some magic potion, which gives him super-human strength and a terror to whoever tries to interfere with him.

Not one of the best Asterix albums, but still worth adding to your collection.

Asterix and Son is an exellent book about a gaul named Asterix who one day woke up and found that there was a baby next to his house. It's hillarious!