The 3 best books by the wonderful Asterix

Every child of my generation X had those comics or comics (whatever you want to call them without major dilemma), which marked him in some sense. From those who simply leaf through them now with longing, to those who find in them that first access to literature as a necessary transition full of images (or of saints for the oldest of the place).

In my case René Goscinny he was the one who got me to read with relish the adventures of the irreducible Gauls, thanks also to the images of its head illustrator, the great Albert urdezo passed away in 2020.

All the axteris adventures and the rest of his village accompanied me on some of the first nights of reading with a flashlight under the covers, during convalescence from measles and other childhood breakdowns, and during study times under the cover of thicker books, mathematics for example.

And that one had inherited comics of all stripes, conditions and status. From the most archaic of Captain Trueno to Superlopez, among them the extensive golden age of the comic between the fifties and the eighties.

The point is that those strange, rude, powerful heroes with their brew, capable of gripping an entire Roman empire with no greater interest than being free in their homeland, should move and fascinate me. Because as soon as I found a new one, I ended up reading it.

Thus, searching among today's reissues, I propose to rescue the best of all those Gauls, as crazy as the Romans themselves, who made us and still do today, laugh and have a good time. As long as they are from their initial authors.

Top 3 Recommended Asterix Comics

Caesar's laurels

For a bet, Asterix and Obelix are forced to travel to Rome to get the laurel of Julius Caesar's crown. With it they will make a barbecue that will show, once again, that the Gauls are superior to the Romans.

Abraracúrcix gets drunk at his brother-in-law's house and promises him a stew cooked with the laurels of Caesar himself. As always, our friends Asterix and Obélix will have to go find such a peculiar ingredient. Will they get it? Exactly!

Volume 18 of the Spanish series of Asterix and Obelix, Caesar's laurels, proposes a fun and crazy new adventure of the intrepid protagonists of Asterix the Gaul, from René Goscinny y Albert Uderzo, the two great French comic authors.

Asterix in Hispania

Asterix also crossed the Pyrenees to the south, with his usual carefree and unconcerned. Without fear of any empire that tries to impose norms or guidelines ...

Julio César has subdued all of Hispania except for a small Iberian village that bears many similarities with a certain Gallic village that we know well….

In order to complete his conquest, the invader orders the kidnapping of Pepe, the chief's son. This is transferred to Gaul, where the proud boy and his captors stumble upon Asterix and Obelix.

From there, all the plans of the Romans fell apart.

Asterix the Gaul

Where it all started. The legend of Asterix, the wonderful profusion of unforgettable characters, settings and adventures started from this presentation for the immortality of an imaginary shared by almost everyone.

We are in the year 50 before Jesus Christ. All of Gaul is occupied by the Romans ... All of it? !No! A village populated by irreducible Gauls still and always resists the invader. And life is not easy for the garrisons of Roman legionaries in the small camps of Babaorum, Aquarium, Laudánum and Petibónum ...

This is Asterix's first adventure. The Romans try to discover why the Gauls always continued to resist the invader. A Roman spy goes into the village posing as a civilian. He says that he lives in Lutecia and that the Romans are going to kill him. In the end he convinces Panorámix to let him taste the magic potion, and, as soon as he drinks it, he runs off to tell his camping companions.