webofevil | Asterix again

Asterix creator Albert Uderzo has been interviewed by the BBC:

“We are getting closer to bringing him back to life in a new album,” (says Uderzo), although he later admits that he's still looking for an idea for the next story. “That’s become a lot more difficult for me now—after 33 albums to find an idea is not that easy.”

No shit. I don’t like repeating myself too much, but we have established before that the last book was so catastrophically bad it couldn’t have been any worse if it had been this:

In the conversation that spawned that title we pondered the idea of sending it to Uderzo as a pitch to see if he had lost his judgment to such an extent that he’d accept it. The news that he’s contemplating another book makes that plan just a little more likely.