Re: jk poor fellow is in Tarot history now

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There is also a soothsayer in the Asterix Saga ...

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A troup of troothsayers and cartofeminists would have made also an interesting background scenario for an Asterix comic.

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Indeed there was a Coronavirus in the French and English version of the Asterix issue No. 37 "Asterix and the Chariot Race" (maybe better "Asterix and the Trionfi Chariot") in the year 2017, two years before the more famous Chinese Coronavirus catastrophe. But "Coronavirus", the driver of the Trionfi chariot is actually Julius Caesar with a Coronavirus mask, but this is another story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix_a ... ariot_Race
Caricatures and references

Some of the characters in the book are obvious caricatures of real-life people. The innkeeper in Parma resembles opera singer Luciano Pavarotti, while the famous Roman masked charioteer Coronavirus is modeled on racing driver Alain Prost, and the garum tycoon Lupus is modeled on former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. French media noted that Nefersaynefer and Kweenlatifer resemble Venus and Serena Williams. Reviewers also noted a waitress at the roadside inn in Tibur resembles Italian actress Sophia Loren.
On page 24, the man sketching the race resembles Leonardo da Vinci. The statues and the mysterious beauty with the charming smile which Asterix and Obelix encounter in Florencia (Florence) are a nod to the city's later significance as the center and birthplace of the Italian Renaissance. The scenes in Sena Julia, where the racers are going in a circle searching for an inn, are a reference to the Palio di Siena and the Piazza del Campo.
While passing Pompeii, Obelix temporarily forestalls a catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Huck
http://trionfi.com

Re: jk poor fellow is in Tarot history now

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A movie is announced with Asterix motifs .... for 2022. A Chinese princess appears in a French village and the title is "a Middle Kingdom"
Guillaume Canet as Asterix
Gilles Lellouche as Obelix
Vincent Cassel as Julius Caesar[21]
Marion Cotillard as Cleopatra
Jason Chicandier as Unhygienix
Jonathan Cohen as Graindemais
Ramzy Bedia as Epidemais
Leanna Chea as Tat Han
Julie Chen as Princess Fu Yi
Linh-Dan Pham as the Empress of China[22]
José Garcia as Biopix
Bun Hay Mean as Deng Tsin Qin
Manu Payet as Ri Qi Qi
Tran Vu Tran as Prince Du Deng
Pierre Richard as Getafix[23]
Zlatan Ibrahimovic as Caius Antivirus[24]
Philippe Katerine as Cacofonix
Jérôme Commandeur as Vitalstatistix
Angèle as Panacea
It seems, that the coronavirus/Asterix idea got some children

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix_% ... le_Kingdom
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astérix_e ... _du_Milieu
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix_% ... _der_Mitte
btw see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panacea

https://youtu.be/1-khMzObrLQ

https://youtu.be/wQQ-_1O-U7o

The costs are given with 65 millions Euro, it's one of the most expensive French movie productions.
Huck
http://trionfi.com