For indeed, Goscinny and Uderzo almost ALWAYS spread their satires, their humorous asides, their parodies and stereotypes pretty much right across the board so to speak, with everyone, from Asterix and Obelix to the Romans, and in this here case, in Asterix Chez les Helvètes, of course, the Swiss, being painted and depicted with entertainment, with similar and equal smiling, satirical brushes.Īnd for two (and this might in fact be even more essential as to why the Asterix comics are such perennial wonders), the actual villains (the bona fide and true nasties) of the diverse episodes are generally and usually solely individually problematic and vile characters in and of themselves, which means that they are not considered worrisome and cringeworthy because of their ethnicity and culture, but because they just happen to be people, they are persons with an inherent nastiness both internal and external.

So what exactly makes the Asterix Comics for the most part so much fun, what makes them such personal treasures and such successful satires, and what then also renders even their often constant 'political incorrectness' both acceptable and actually usually also laugh out loud hilarious? For one (and in my opinion very much importantly) author René Goscinny (and by extension also illustrator Albert Uderzo) generally NEVER single out one ethnic or cultural group for their jokes and humour (both textual and illustrative).

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