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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.

The new Asterix book is out in English, and it's dreadful. To someone who grew up on the originals it's desperately sad to see a still-brilliant draftsman insist on shafting his own once-great franchise, due to either senile delusion or a decision to kill the damn thing off once and for all.

The book features a cute purple alien called Toon from a planet whose name is an anagram of Walt Disney, enlisting the help of the village in fending off the attacks of another kind of alien clearly meant to represent Manga cartoons. Also included: clone-robots with the face of Arnold Schwarzenegger but dressed as Superman. It doesn't work as satire, comedy, literature or even a constructive use of paper.

It honestly couldn't be worse if the next title in the series was this: