By Toutatis! That's a lot of brain trauma!

Asterix comic study…

out of 704 victims, 698 were male and 63.9% were Roman. One hundred and twenty were Gauls, 59 were bandits or pirates, 20 were Goths, 14 were Normans, eight were Vikings, five were Britons and four were extraterrestrials

😆

I liked the way they would have cute little wild boars running about, then at the end, there would be dead, cooked wild boars being served up.

by toutatis

indeed !

Fist Pays de Caux ?

Although 70.5% of the victims were wearing a helmet, this was lost “in the vast majority of cases”,

“The role of helmet protection has been stressed by the authors, especially in view of the fact that strap-fixation should have been taken more seriously by the Roman besiegers and others,”

thats science right there that is

For once, 😆 @ TJ!

Excellent!
Paper in full is here –
http://www.springerlink.com/content/x161246067q0h638/fulltext.pdf

Excellent 🙂

Reason #252 for acquiring additional european languages: you get to read a new set/reworking of the bad asterix puns all over again. 😀 The German puns are completely lost on me though!
(Of course most of them don’t translate at all, so the translators had to think of other ones that would fit in with the plot and pictures.)

Some proper sense of humour failures on the ‘comments’ on the Gaurdian page. I think this is not a waste of valuable research time and money, but rather what uber-nerd academics do to ‘wind down’.

BTW, i’ve not encountered the four ‘extraterrestrials’ that get clobbered: have i missed a book?

julianwilson – Member
Reason #252 for acquiring additional european languages…

I’ve got some in Latin too.

I love these books, still read them.

I am sure this is why I went on to major in Classics at Uni !

+1 for Asterix and language acquisition!

BTW, i’ve not encountered the four ‘extraterrestrials’ that get clobbered: have i missed a book?

sounds like it. Do you have this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix_and_the_Falling_Sky

Who would have guessed there were so many Asterix fans in here!

Which Asterix publication that you own is the most valuable (to you) ?

Aha, turns out i have not read the last three. 😳

I like my dad’s old copy of Astérix the Legionary cos its the first one I read. And it has Obélix swinging a tiger round by its tail. 😀
And I like “La Domaine Des Dieux” and “Astérix en Suisse” cos they are just soooooooo funny.

The pirates are classic, poor sods always get it, which book is it that they have given up piracy for some land based stuff and you guessed it run into Asterix and Obelix, the inevitabe hammering happens.

Cacofonix is a genius character

CharlieMungus – Member
Which Asterix publication that you own is the most valuable (to you) ?

Asterix and the Great Crossing – mainly because I had a Harlequin Great Dane that looked just like Hunting Season. 🙂

The Great Feast for me, one of my buddy’s over here has started recollecting them, he almost wee’d his pants when he saw my 8 or so small format paperbacks!

I’m going to dig mine out now – asterix the gladiator was my fave. Great education in geography, history, fighting and feasting

59 were bandits or pirates

Poor science imo.

Did they not notice that it was the same group of pirates each time?

Great for research into multiple head injuries I would have thought, but obviously the lazy academics with massive amounts of government funding that could have been spent more profitably on children or dogs or schools or the NHS, yes why not, but of course they waste it on comic books that are no benefit to anybody but the people who read them and go on to become archaeologists, another waste of money when that money could be spent on kids or dogs or the NHS or schools………

(Reading Asterix is never a waste of time. I was looking at them in waterstone last week thinking that I should start collecting them again.)

I used to LOVE Asterix as a kid, never had any but the local library had them all
maybe I should start a collection
what kind of money do these things go for?
[wanders off to eBay…]

TandemJeremy – Member
thats science right there that is

Have a 😆

what kind of money do these things go for?

The standard ones are still available for not many quids new, then there are a few compendia or albums which are very collectable, such as ‘The Complete Guide…” and some for the Dogmatix books are very expensive (others seem to be much more common).

There are also some which are not (yet?) available in English, such as Asterix et Ses Amis.

Used to love them as a kid, but not picked one up in years.

Just as an aside, my parents used to call their recently deceased dog Dogmatix (or Matix for short) as a nickname.

My favourite:

‘A garden is a lovesome thing, wot?’

Fantastic! Haven’t read one of these in years but have been straight on to Amazon and ordered Asterix in Britain.

I wish you hadn’t put this up. Despite not having read Asterix since being a child, I can remember so much of it off by heart. I used to re-read them constantly.

And it’s my me realise that I don’t know where my collection is, by Mithras!

Also off to spend silly amounts of money on Amazon……