Asterix in Britain

When Asterix goes abroad often we are treated to a barrage of sometimes-crude but usually-hilarious national stereotypes and when Asterix visited our shores he found a land inhabited by tweed wearing stiff-upper lipped gentlemen who said "what?" a lot and drank warm beer. There is an element of truth in all stereotypes of course, what?

Asterix and Obelix come to Britain to deliver a barrel of magic potion to help the Britons out in their struggle against the Romans, unfortunately the barrel goes missing... and our heroes try and retrieve it before the Romans find it.

This truly is one of the best Asterix books, the humour is spot on, the story plotted and paced perfectly and the artwork is approaching its zenith. It can maybe be a bit wearing for all of the Britons to be posh ancient toffs and the stereotypes are a bit out of date now (our food has improved a bit from the days of boiled boar with mint sauce) but its still very good indeed. There are so many high-points to choose from but i especially liked the ancient Beatles, the endless warm beer jokes and the cart thief.

See how the French discovered rugby and tea became our national drink, you can learn so much history from these books...