Asterix and the Chieftain’s Daughter: New team, old magic, the hero of Gaul is back, by Toutatis! | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Asterix and the Chieftain’s Daughter: New team, old magic, the hero of Gaul is back, by Toutatis! | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Nimish Dubey |New Delhi |Updated: November 21, 2019 1:50:27 pm

Asterix and the Chieftain’s Daughter: New team, old magic, the hero of Gaul is back, by Toutatis!

The comic revolves around the discovery of the daughter of the Gaulish chieftain Vercingetorix who Caesar defeated at Alesia.

But by and large, the launch of a new Asterix comic, or an album, as the publishers choose to call it, no longer provokes the sort of bookworm stampede that it once did.(File Photo)

There’s a new Asterix comic in bookstores. A couple of decades ago, that would have led to people sprinting to their nearest bookshop and trying to get a copy, and then fight off the advances of their friends who would try to borrow it (been there, resisted that). Today, the reaction to this news is basically quizzical from the younger folk, although those born in the sixties and seventies, there still is an inclination to head out to the local book monger or if they happen to be more tech-savvy, log in to Amazon. But by and large, the launch of a new Asterix comic, or an album, as the publishers choose to call it, no longer provokes the sort of bookworm stampede that it once did.