Asterix and Obelix resist once again to the Roman invader.
He arrived this Thursday at bookstores throughout the country, the 36th adventure starring Asterix and Obelix, a simultaneous worldwide release. ‘The Papyrus of Caesar’ takes readers to Gaul to accompany the duo of heroes in an intricate plot, where there are many caricatures to well-known personalities of the world today.
The control of information and the propaganda war are the central themes of the second story drawn by Didier Conrad and written by Jean-Yves Ferri, under the supervision of the author Albert Uderzo. In the new adventure, the Roman occupier of all Gaul will try to defeat the inhabitants of one village that still resists the invader. For this difficult task, nothing better than using advertising, after decades of humiliating defeats.
The advice Julius Caesar in this mission is Bonus Vendetudus character inspired by the French publicist Jacques Séguéla, responsible in 1981 for the presidential campaign which gave victory to François Mitterrand. The halting the objectives of the Romans is Gerapolémix figure inspired by Julian Assange (came close to call Wikilix), which attempts to reveal the lie written on papyrus related to the work ‘The War of the Gauls’, written actually by the indomitable conqueror .
With over 365 million albums sold worldwide, ‘Papyrus Caesar’ hopes to achieve the same number of ‘Asterix among the Picts’: more than 5.4 million albums sold in 24 languages and dialects. In our country, the book meets a mirandês edition, in addition to Portuguese.
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