Like the previous Signed by Didier Conrad in drawing and Jean-Yves Ferri to the scenario, new album will be sold worldwide, including Brazil, India, the USA, Australia, or Germany where the two Gauls cartonnent forever.
Published two years ago, the previous album, “Asterix and the Picts”, the first without Albert Uderzo, has sold over 5.4 million copies worldwide in 24 languages dialects.
Uderzo “amazed” by the scenario
A 88 years Albert Uderzo, who put his pencils in 2010, said he was “amazed” by the new plot and “extraordinary” work of his successor, Didier Conrad.
As for the plot, this brand new album deals with communication war and flow of information. A scenario supported by new characters, with names full of promises. Side “nice”, there was first a Gallic journalist, a “peddler without borders” Doublepolemix, who wants to get to the truth and above all make it known. “Julian Assange has been the model for this character,” explained Jean-Yves Ferri who entrusted this character had almost be called “Wikilix” referring to the Wikileaks site known for publishing classified documents.
Doublepolémix is the correspondent of “The echo of Condate” read only by the literate village, Rézowifix, another character also make his first appearance in an Asterix album. The album begins with the newspaper reading public and is noticed only one thing interested the Gauls: the horoscope. They are wrong because a new weapon threatens the village encircled by the Roman armies. The weapon communication
A wicked inspired Séguela, Henri Guaino or Patrick Buisson
Caesar is aided in this new battle by a deceitful and wicked counselor, called Bonus Promoplus. The latter advises the emperor in writing his memoirs (“The Gallic War”, in reality). This is the advertising Jacques Seguela physically that served as a model for this character but rather is inspired by the “shadow advisors” as Henri Guaino or Patrick Buisson, said Jean-Yves Ferri. In foreign versions Promoplus Blockbustus be called in English, Italian or Bestsellerus Syndicus German. Promoplus is itself supported by a butler, Quefaitlapolis, an Egyptian stylish. Among the new Romans, there is also the centurion Ultradetendus, not necessarily the most warlike invaders.
For the rest of the story, he will take his troubles patiently and wait for October 22, the two authors want to reserve any surprise to the reader. Since the establishment in 1959 of Asterix by Uderzo Goscinny-duo, the comic has sold some 365 million albums.
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