Björn recenserade Asterix and the Falling Sky av Uderzo.
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Yeah, so Goscinny was always the ideas man and Uderzo's stories will never live up to that, but even with that in mind, this is dire.
It's not that Asterix facing aliens and comic book heroes couldn't work. There have certainly been weird crossovers in the franchise before. But Uderzo seems to have absolutely NO idea what to do with it. He plops a few aliens into the Gaul village and ... that's it. There's nothing else to it. No story, no good gags, no worthwhile character beats, not even any good drawings we haven't seen before. (Except possibly the slightly Franquin-like battle between the spaceships.) It's to the point where the punny names are (at least in the Swedish translation) explained by the characters in dialogue. Uderzo claims it's a tribute to Disney and superhero comics (and a pretty damn racist rant against manga), and comes across as …
Yeah, so Goscinny was always the ideas man and Uderzo's stories will never live up to that, but even with that in mind, this is dire.
It's not that Asterix facing aliens and comic book heroes couldn't work. There have certainly been weird crossovers in the franchise before. But Uderzo seems to have absolutely NO idea what to do with it. He plops a few aliens into the Gaul village and ... that's it. There's nothing else to it. No story, no good gags, no worthwhile character beats, not even any good drawings we haven't seen before. (Except possibly the slightly Franquin-like battle between the spaceships.) It's to the point where the punny names are (at least in the Swedish translation) explained by the characters in dialogue. Uderzo claims it's a tribute to Disney and superhero comics (and a pretty damn racist rant against manga), and comes across as never having seen or read any of the things he's nodding to.
The best thing about this is that it makes the old albums look even better by comparison.