Is Asterix basically anti-Italian propaganda?
Is Asterix basically anti-Italian propaganda?
Elijah Ross
Ryder Howard
No, because Italy didn't exist 2000 years ago. Asterix is a satire of all aspects of the ancient world. Making the dictator that wants to enslave and take over the world wasn't a difficult sell.
Owen Brooks
It was pro-Celtic propaganda
Henry Cook
Henry Walker
It was Gauls seething for over 2000 years over the loss at Alesia.
Charles James
Thanks for giving me a reason to finally post this.
Dominic Ortiz
The numbers reported by Caesar are most likely inflated
Joshua Torres
Keep seething gauls!
Also no problem, Asterix poster.
Jackson Roberts
Is there like a German equivalent of Asterix? Considering because of the whole Teutoberg Forest thing, you'd think there'd be one writer to make a silly cartoon of Germanic tribes fooling Augustus
David Hernandez
Nope, Germans take things way too seriously to be able to recreate Asterix and the French are still butthurt over the Franco-Prussian war to draw Germans as the heroes.
Nathaniel Watson
Learning from your enemies to backstab them- serious business.
The "Adventures of Herman the German" just isn't kid-friendly.
Nathaniel Baker
Only Asterix And The Chariot Race
Sure the Romans are big in Asterix, but they’re pretty squarely ancient Romans, you wouldn’t conflate them with modern Italians
Asterix And The Chariot Race is their book about Italy and Italian culture, it may as well be called Asterix In Italy, like Asterix In Britain or Asterix In Corsica
Landon Walker
Why are romefags so insufferably annoying
John Foster
Let me kiddify it.
The Adventures of Herman the German involves a Romano German who gets fed up from living a lavish life in Rome, steals a mystical Aquila, and decides to go to the mythical forests of Germania. But what he doesn't know that the Aquila he stole was from Augustus himself! Varus being worried that his "son" is missing goes out to look for him before he's lost to the forest forever, as well as retrieve the Aquila. Herman's adventures leads him to the forest seas of Germania, meeting different tribes, and using the magical Aquila for his adventure, as his father Varus tried to find him, but they just can't seem to find each other even if they're a foot away.
That's the best way I could make it kid-friendly.
Ryan Perry
>no album set in Pompei where Asterix visits the decadent Pompeii and all its brothels and restaurants
Nolan Ross
Asterix was literally made because of butthurt about surrender moneky meme after WWII, government started promoting Vercingetorix as a cure for national butthurt and that's how the authors got the idea for comic series
Zachary Thomas
>Mona Lisa had over 600 years old
no wonder why people are so obsessed with that painting
Jaxon Brown
Italians aren't Romans, Mussolini.
>Asterix is a satire of all aspects of the ancient world.
Mostly seems to be a satire of modernity. Whenever Asterix went abroad, there'd be a heavy sprinkling of modern stereotyping (from a French perspective).
Because they're nationalists but for a dead country they know nothing about.
James White
About the only one I've read that counts as anti-anything propaganda was the Falling Sky one.
Henry Gutierrez
At least Asterix's view on the Vikings wasn't the sterotyped evil and brutish version that practically everyone use on comics- in fact, the Vikings and Asterix part ways on almost friendly terms once the adventure ends.
Bentley Myers
Asterix is always lighthearted fun