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Asterix encounters a teenage rebel

In the 38. Adventures of Comic book hero Asterix is all about the unruly offspring of a rebel from the Gallic war. The daughter of Vercingetorix “but” makes a very modern impression.



The cheeky and rebellious Teenage girl Adrenaline is equally pretty as defiant. Visually, a wild mix between the climate activist Greta Thunberg, is a vampire hunter, Buffy and singer Ariana Grande on the red-haired Brat, the Roman Emperor Caesar, and for him to challenge. The great Lord wants to kidnap the daughter of the Gallic rebel Vercingetorix and the Roman re-educate let. However, Caesar has made the invoice without the brave Gauls around Asterix, Obelix and co….

The artist Didier Conrad (l.) and the lyricist Jean-Yves Ferri will present “The daughter of Vercingetorix”

Historically occupied…

In her most recent work copywriter Jean-Yves Ferri and Illustrator Didier Conrad have oriented to a historically confirmed figure: The legendary arverni chieftain Vercingetorix was there really. He had to the Roman rulers in the year 52 BC, at the battle of Alesia in Burgundy, hit enter, it says so in the “Gallic wars”, Caesar’s great work, the had to read most of the Latin students.

… and artistic freedom

The rebellious rebel daughter have come up with the two Asterix-makers, however,. The theme of the current adventure, the “resistance to be mixed with puberty and the is not easy,” explains Ferri the task they have set for their fourth joint Asterix book.

Six years ago, the two Frenchmen with the book “Asterix and the Picts had taken”the heritage of the artist, and authors Albert Uderzo. His congenial Partner, the original Asterix writer René Goscinny, died in 1977.

This year, the Comic-book series celebrates the fighting Gauls in France already in your 60. Birthday, in Germany, for well over 50 years on the market.

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