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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
A Low Point,
By Bu-Chan (Aotearoa) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Asterix - The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (Paperback)
"The Twelve Tasks of Asterix", for me personally, was a low point in the Asterix series. This is a story book, and not a graphic story like the others. So, if you are really looking for the graphic books, then don't buy this one.The story is mildly entertaining, but hardly up to the same standards of the comics. Without the graphics, some of the humour is lost, such as the expressions and other details that make the comics so endearing. Except for the most fanatical and hardcore Asterix fans, approach "The Twelve Tasks" with caution.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Another challenge for Asterix and Obelix,
By Gary Selikow (Great Kush) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Asterix - The Twelve Tasks of Asterix (Paperback)
This book was written after and based on the 1973 animated film of the same name. The screenplay for the film was written by Peter Tchernia together with Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo.After yet another Roman legion is beaten senseless by the village of indomitable Gauls, the centurion decides that the Gauls must be gods and 'it's a fat lot of use fighting gods'. He sends a message to Julius Ceasar in rome, and Ceasar decides to issue the Gauls with a challenge. Using the story of the twelve tasks of Hercules as a reference point, but choosing new tasks because the Herculean labour were a bit outdated, Ceasar sets twelve new tasks for the Gauls. If they complete all twelve tasks Ceasar will concede the village of Gauls are gods and concede defeat and lay down his arms but if the Gauls should fail they will become Ceasar's slaves. The Gauls will never turn down a challenge and Vitalstatistix chooses his best two warriors, of course, to do the tasks: Asterix and Obelix. The diminutive Roman Cauis Tiddius is chosen as an adjudicator to guide the Gauls and see that they complete the challenge The tasks are quite novel ones and include beating the German marshall arts champion, Cylindric, crossing a lake through an island filled with beautiful sirens, surviving the hypnotic gaze of Iris the Egyptian and finishing the meal by Mannekenpix, the Belgian. The two heroes complete them all needless to say throwing everyone into confusion in the process. Just how it's done is full of vivid colour and fun. A bit more surrealistic than some of the Asterix comics, this one plays on the whole idea of our heroes knowing they are in a strip comic where 'anything goes'. This is not perhaps the greatest Asterix classic, but worthwile for diehard fans to complete their collection.
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