The Mansions of the Gods
They want to pave paradise and put up a housing development. That's why a multinational team of slave construction workers are clearing the forest just outside the Gaulish town. Will the Gauls be fast enough to stop them and prevent Roman upstarts from moving in?
They want to pave paradise and put up a housing development. That's why a multinational team of slave construction workers are clearing the forest just outside the Gaulish town. Will the Gauls be fast enough to stop them and prevent Roman upstarts from moving in?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780752866390 (0752866397)
Publish date: April 1st 2005
Publisher: Orion
Pages no: 48
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Humor,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
France,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Comic Book,
Komik,
Bande Dessinée
Series: Asterix (#17)
When I think of the theme of the Asterix's albums as being the struggle between the modern and the traditional (though traditional is probably a bad word because it is more to me like the idyllic, such as the small country town with its mum and pop businesses) this the the album that comes to mind. ...
I once saw a newspaper article that showed Asterix as the farmer fighting aganist the Roman Mikey D's. Here Asterix is all for keeping the forest pristine until evil developers come along.See, Asterix was green before green was in.
I read all the Asterix books as a kid in the early 1990s...
11 years ago
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