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Everything you need to know about L'Iris Blanc, Asterix's next album

2023-03-20T11:27:25.485Z


Imagined by Fabcaro, the scenario of this 40th adventure, scheduled for October 26, transports the irreducible Gauls to the side of positive thinking and personal development.


"To light up the forest, the flowering of a single iris is enough"

, can we read in the 40th adventure of the irreducible Gauls.

Expected for October 26, the new album by Asterix and Obelix is, for the first time, scripted by Fabcaro and focuses on personal development and “

positive thinking

”.

Jean-Yves Ferri, who has become one of the

"fathers"

of the indomitable Gaul with the designer Didier Conrad, confides to the

Journal Du Dimanche.

“It's a “travel” album, since the last adventure took place in the village.

Asterix and Obelix will leave for a new destination (...).

This country does not really exist today as such

, indicated the scriptwriter to the French weekly.

“Each album is a small step to bring something new.

And Obélix continues his slow psychological evolution

,” he added.

There will therefore be a question of personal development for the Gauls but also for the Romans.

Caesar apparently believed that by learning to be positive, his soldiers could become better warriors.

The White Iris

is the symbol of this thought to which Bonemine fully subscribes.

Asked if he could still play on the clichés of the country visited, as this comic used to do, the screenwriter admitted that the task had become more complicated.

“In the 1960s,

Albert Uderzo

and

René Goscinny

could laugh at foreigners, caricature the English with their big teeth, the Greeks with their Greek profile.

The atmosphere was good-natured.

Today, you almost need a dictionary on your desk to know what you have the right to joke about or not

,” he said.

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“Playing with clichés is part of Asterix's codes.

But I don't mind stepping away from it.

I am lucky that my personal humor does not lead me to overly frontal caricatures.

In

La Fille de Vercingétorix

, I toned down the way of making teenagers speak, for example

,” continued the screenwriter.

This 38th album by Asterix and Obelix was the best-selling book in France in 2019. Two years later, in 2021,

Asterix and the Griffon

achieved the same feat by selling more than a million copies.

The heirs of Asterix

Since 2013, the heroes imagined sixty-one years ago by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo (who died in November 1977 and March 2022 respectively) alternate between an adventure in the village and a trip.

“It was tempting to talk

about the coronavirus affecting the

whole world

, but I left that aside.

The epidemic is a sad subject, full of anxiety.

It is better to laugh at something else and wish that when the album is released we have finally turned the page

, Jean-Yves Ferri underlined again.

Still, you might find a hint of a potion that looks like a vaccine or a few little winks

.

Asked if he had been able to exchange with Uderzo on this album before his disappearance, he indicated that

"he was able to learn about the new theme"

.

“He approved of the story, he encouraged us.

Contrary to what one might think, Albert was not on our backs to control everything

.

Source: lefigaro

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