So, let’s see. We need intense violence, devastating hand-to-hand-combat, that sort of thing.
I know: gladiators! That’s just the ticket.
Yes, this is what we want.
Er…
Hold on, that can’t be right.
Oh, dear, I don’t think I’ve got the hang of this.
Well, maybe next time.
Panels
Asterix the Gladiator, text by René Goscinny, drawings by Albert Uderzo, 1964, translated by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge, Brockhampton Press, 1969
3 comments:
Brilliant.
The whole Gladiator sequence is one of my favourite bits in all of Asterix. I find myself quoting it with worrying regularity.
KG
It's even better in the original album, of course, with the panel layouts intact and the running jokes connected up (and probably better still in the original French, but I'm an ignorant monoglot anglophone these days).
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