It sure looks like a clap of thunder in the cold blue sky of December.
While Asterix's latest album,
Asterix and the Griffon
released in October 2021 will have been one of the best-selling editions of the year with 1.5 million copies sold, we are announcing the arrival of a new scriptwriter, Fabcaro, in charge of the 40th album of the adventures of our two dear irreducible Gauls, created in 1959 by the Uderzo/Goscinny duo.
Read alsoAsterix and the Griffin, a journey beyond boredom
If the commercial success of the last Asterix was great, its critical appreciation was less so.
Conrad and Ferri, the duo of buyers who succeeded Uderzo and Goscinny, may have conceived some bitterness.
Asterix and the Griffon
plunged Asterix and Obelix deep into the Siberian steppes, an icy place where the magic potion had frozen.
And gags with it.
Perhaps it is also appropriate to take into account the possible fatigue, even a weariness, which can catch up with a screenwriter as brilliant as he is.
After ten years...
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