Asterix and the Chariot Race (Coronavirus)

[pueblo]

Apologies if this has been posted before, couldn't find anything in a search.

The book, Asterix and the Chariot Race, was published in October 2017 in 20 languages with an initial print run of 5 million copies.

In the book the plot centres on a road race with Asterix and Obelisk against the romans. The chief roman charioteer is the masked Coronavirus!

Throughout the book there are many little anomalies and with a little reading between the lines the book could be seen to be referencing the current "pandemic". Just another little 'oddity' spewed out by 2020!

I have included some screen shots of some pages and a link to online version of book.

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https://archive.org/details/37AsterixAndTheChariotRace

[araucaria]

Well, you missed this (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?109753-The-Wuhan-Coronavirus-Covid-19-the-Honey-Badger-virus&p=1340272&viewfull=1#post1340272).
But thank you for linking to the whole story. A neat little tale of rebellion against imperialism and conspiracy defeated.
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[Bill Ryan]

Well, you missed this (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?109753-The-Wuhan-Coronavirus-Covid-19-the-Honey-Badger-virus&p=1340272&viewfull=1#post1340272).
But thank you for linking to the whole story. A neat little tale of rebellion against imperialism and conspiracy defeated.
44754Yes! :)

SARS and MERS were both coronaviruses, and so is the common cold. (There are a few others, as well, not so well-known.)

This new one isn't THE coronavirus. Coronaviruses have been around before, known about for a long time, and the current virus is just a new "species".

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[Kamikaze]

delete it all.

[Dorjezigzag]

That was the second most recent asterix comic and indeed there is much more consciousness of corona viruses now lol

One may wish to pay attention to the most recent Astericx comic, Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter, which was published just before the current corona virus pandemic in Oct 2019 which features a character called Ekonomikrisis a Phoenician trader who has not appeared for 38 years in the comics.

First we had corona virus then an economic crisis! hehehe

"A Phoenician travelling merchant, Ekonomikrisis is a pioneering trader who employs the slyest rules of liberalism in the Roman Empire and remodels them to his advantage. Demonstrating great expertise in cutting-edge communication techniques, he rechristens the rowers on his commercial galley «partners», united under the aegis of a «partnership contract» drawn up in good form, in which he doesn't neglect to reserve the posts of Chairman and Managing Director for himself.

The terms may have changed, but this new breed of MD with unquestioned managerial authority ill disguises the fact that he's exploiting his men in the form of good, old-fashioned slavery: it has to be said, Ekonomikrisis created a formidable system in which everyone ends up working for his profit alone!

Even worse, if you aren't one of his «partners» and you don't row for him, watch out: Ekonomikrisis is no doubt already dreaming of selling you as a slave, just to get something out of your journey on his boat! We note that before the strike of the «volunteer» slaves in Asterix and Cleopatra and the union struggles of The Mansion of the Gods, the authors of Asterix developed a decidedly singular vision of the world of work! Later, in Asterix and the Black Gold, Albert Uderzo completes the portrait of this eccentric merchant with an innovative decision: Ekonomikrisis calls his rowers «holiday-makers» on a package tour, of which he is of course the tour operator! He's not called Ekonomikrisis for nothing!"

https://www.asterix.com/illus/asterix-de-a-a-z/les-personnages/perso/a06b.gif

[Dorjezigzag]

May be interesting to consider what was happening 39 years ago when Ekonomikrisis last appeared in Asterix comics before the most recent appearance.

The early 1980s recession was a severe economic recession that affected much of the world between approximately the start of 1980 and early 1983.[1] It is widely considered to have been the most severe recession since World War Two.[2][3] A key event leading to the recession was the 1979 energy crisis, mostly caused by the Iranian Revolution which caused a disruption to the global oil supply, which saw oil prices rising sharply in 1979 and early 1980. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_1980s_recession)

hmmmm

[greybeard]

Asterix and Cleopatra (1968) [Eng Dubbed FULL MOVIE]


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5kGlq0fTVw