tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11095653.post5481345191374784835..comments2023-06-18T05:48:52.971-07:00Comments on Prefect Slog: Resting On Caesar's LaurelsSAFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07654559289732417538noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11095653.post-53480487449058461802008-04-18T04:46:00.000-07:002008-04-18T04:46:00.000-07:00SK: "I remember my favourite as being '... and the...SK: "I remember my favourite as being '... and the Roman Agent'"<BR/><BR/>Ah yes, I like that one too - it has that great little weasel of a character - Convoluvulus? And "psychological warfare".SAFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07654559289732417538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11095653.post-88075421315443121142008-04-16T05:53:00.000-07:002008-04-16T05:53:00.000-07:00I remember my favourite as being '... and the Roma...I remember my favourite as being '... and the Roman Agent', but I haven't read them in ages.SKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09102522819364312684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11095653.post-7859027384000998602008-04-16T02:27:00.000-07:002008-04-16T02:27:00.000-07:00izp: "Cacofonix ex machina (over-using the sonic)....izp: "Cacofonix ex machina (over-using the sonic)."<BR/><BR/>They use that in Gladiator too, but Gladiator is also great, and there's plenty of duffing up Romans by way of supplementing it with action :)SAFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07654559289732417538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11095653.post-2117879500030407802008-04-16T02:24:00.000-07:002008-04-16T02:24:00.000-07:00izp: "(isn't it the one with the wanted poster too...izp: "(isn't it the one with the wanted poster too?)"<BR/><BR/>Oh yes, absolutely. Brilliant little sketch of the suspects. :)SAFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07654559289732417538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11095653.post-26965253275072086032008-04-15T15:37:00.000-07:002008-04-15T15:37:00.000-07:00Oh yes, Goths is good for the big battle diagram, ...Oh yes, Goths is good for the big battle diagram, and some of the earliest comedy calligraphy (isn't it the one with the wanted poster too?). Generally you're on safest territory with most stories where Asterix goes somewhere else and is bemused by their peculiar customs I reckon (we go to them), sometimes Caesar's latest plan to sown discord in the village gets a bit samey for me (they come to us), and as much as I love Mansions and Normans you can overplay the Cacofonix ex machina (over-using the sonic).IZPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11095653.post-1511204585927831122008-04-15T12:24:00.001-07:002008-04-15T12:24:00.001-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.SAFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07654559289732417538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11095653.post-79806828260292844742008-04-15T12:24:00.000-07:002008-04-15T12:24:00.000-07:00izp: "Right now I think my favourites are Cleopatr...izp: "Right now I think my favourites are Cleopatra, Mansion of the Gods (that brochure double page spread) and Great Crossing"<BR/><BR/>That's a great triumvirate. ;) Mansions and Cleo would certainly be among my favourites, and for that double page brochure bit, and I have a great fondness for The Goths, but as you so rightly say:<BR/><BR/>"there are so many great ones."SAFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07654559289732417538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11095653.post-27887795355649945102008-04-15T05:57:00.000-07:002008-04-15T05:57:00.000-07:00Damn, damn - I have to have these now! And I'm su...Damn, damn - I have to have these now! <BR/><BR/>And I'm supposed to be economising for the Miami trip next month, as well...Stuart Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07232782649771676547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11095653.post-4191291603237533432008-04-15T05:30:00.000-07:002008-04-15T05:30:00.000-07:00Never loved Tintin, never got the appeal, but huge...Never loved Tintin, never got the appeal, but huge Asterix fan, I've got most of the English ones, several French ones (not to mention a German and Spanish one). The translating of puns is instructive, generally an equivalent joke is found, or if it can't be made to work a liberty taken and an alternative joke that fits the visual offered (he's serving a half pint of mild and bitter, most character names), and sometimes the piratical Classical allusions change to allow better pay offs.<BR/>The British translators Hockridge and Bell are geniuses (Bell is Martin "White Suit" Bell's sister BTW).<BR/>Sadly, when Uderzo starts working on his own they're having to insert jokes rather than produce substitutes. La Grande Fosse is so much worse than The Great Divide that your heart breaks (the standard issue Uderzo hot chick Fanzine with her lover Comix is about the only joke they can't manage a good replacement for).<BR/><BR/>Right now I think my favourites are Cleopatra, Mansion of the Gods (that brochure double page spread) and Great Crossing, but there are so many great ones.<BR/><BR/>Worth noting the recent reissues with recoloured art do also tweak the way the black pirate speaks to take some of the Gone With the Windism out of his bubbles, which given the casual racial stereotyping throughout the art seems slightly odd.IZPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06195339591797829458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11095653.post-39468487988751757002008-04-14T17:28:00.000-07:002008-04-14T17:28:00.000-07:00:)They are great. I've got many of the books mysel...:)<BR/><BR/>They are great. I've got many of the books myself, but I don't suppose I actually have them all and I seem to have lost my Asterix In Britain.SAFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07654559289732417538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11095653.post-30733706959891867382008-04-14T03:16:00.000-07:002008-04-14T03:16:00.000-07:00lol - I love Asterix and Obelix (and now you've go...lol - I love Asterix and Obelix (and now you've gone and mentioned them I feel a period of eBay hunting coming on so that I can buy them all up again:)Stuart Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07232782649771676547noreply@blogger.com