Asterix and the Secret Weapon
by:
Albert Uderzo (author)
A woman bard? That’s unheard of in Ancient Gaul. So when the mothers in Asterix’s town want to replace Cacofonix with Bravura, the men are horrified. But Bravura hits the right notes musically, and she proves very valuable when Julius Caesar sends in his secret weapon: a group of female...
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A woman bard? That’s unheard of in Ancient Gaul. So when the mothers in Asterix’s town want to replace Cacofonix with Bravura, the men are horrified. But Bravura hits the right notes musically, and she proves very valuable when Julius Caesar sends in his secret weapon: a group of female legionaries. Caesar thinks the Gauls will be too noble to fight the women...but Bravura has no such scruples! And even Cacofonix succeeds in coming into his own.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780752847771 (0752847775)
Publish date: May 1st 2002
Publisher: Orion
Pages no: 48
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Humor,
Cultural,
France,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Comic Book,
Komik,
Bande Dessinée,
Cartoon
Series: Asterix (#29)
This has all the Classical (geddit?!) elements of an Asterix story; violence, boar, pirates, Caesar's latest plan to conquer the last outpost of Gaul that still resists the Empire and so forth. It also shows the more whimsical tone and more meandering plotting evident in the other volumes written by...
I read all the Asterix books as a kid in the early 1990s...
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