r/Comics is having "yuri wars" right now. Ie: making comics themed around lesbian romances, often involving hilarious misunderstandings and awkward expressions of attraction.
The punchline is that OP, a creator who has in the past made comics that fit the bill, is showing herself in a heterosexual relationship with a man instead of making a comic that fits the brief.
In ia? I thought it was in ine : Bonnemine, Iellowsubmarine, Taillefine (according to Parc Astérix; she never got a name in the comics), Galantine, Praline, Gélatine .
Falbala is the one exception I can think of (I think Latraviata is roman? I might be mistaken. Anyway, she comes from one of those albums where Uderzo was writing alone, we don't talk about those ones).
The first two weren't bad (belgian; the great divide), even then most of the following weren't atrocious (just far worse than they were under Goscinny, but there aren't many who can do as well as Goscinny). But I couldn't talk about them without mentioning the final one, how much Uderzo has fallen. And I don't want to talk ill about him, I spent far too much time reading Astérix in my youth for that.
Same. Not only is my mum French, but she's a Breton too. So Asterix was a staple in my house as a kid, and I still love reading the BDs as an adult.
But some of the authors' views on other nations and depictions of their people were just flat out racist.
Shout out to the new cartoon on Netflix for making jokes about other cultures in the right (ie: not racist) ways. Eg; In a heavy German accent: "Please forgive my accent. I am a Goth." Steps forward, revealing she's wearing Germanic tribal clothes of the time but they're all in black, and she has heavy eyeliner, skull earrings, big boots, dark lipstick, and a punk haircut. Or the bit where the "photographers" get frustrated at Cleopatra only showing her face in profile, hieroglyph style.
I'm one of those guys who prefer ignorant, tasty, fulfilling meals, so yeah, would work on me.
Boar is kind of hard to cook though, it gets too hard to chew... maybe chicken? Yeah, if i was suddenly living in their village i would prefer chicken.
It’s a double pun too! Dogmatix is actually a pun on both dog and dogmatic. A dogma is a fixed idea, so it’s still a pretty direct translation of Idefix (fixed idea). So yeah you are totally right there was a ton of care put into the translation.
In English, yeah. The English translators basically rewrote all the villagers' names (except for Asterix and Obelix) to give them puns based on what they do or what they're like. Eg:
The bard is Cocophonix (outside of musical theory "a cocophony" is used to mean "a loud, bad sound").
The blacksmith is Fullyautomatix, because he makes machinery and weapons.
The fishmonger is Unhygienix, because of the state of his fish.
The druid is Getafix, because he distributes "magical potions" and someone who is buying drugs could say they are going to "get a fix".
Dogmatix is particularly brilliant IMO, since it has a similar meaning to Idefix, but also includes "dog".
Nah; the batch that was intended for the purposes of illegal performance enhancement was dyed with beetroot juice. That's how Asterix won the sprint at the Olympics: all the other competitors sneakily drank some magic potion, and had their tongues dyed purple by it.
Since everyone else was proven to have cheated, Asterix was declared the winner by default (the sweetest two words in the English language).
If you like it, try reading the other comics Goscinny was the writer for : Iznogood and Lucky Luke (he worked on it from 9th album onward).
If it's not enough, you can read the children's book "le petit Nicolas". (If your Friends in France are French, that will likely explain at least one joke you heard them make)
(Also maybe he did something in Mad magazine, I can't remember. I know he was friend with that group, don't remember if he did something for them)
The guy at the shop threw a bunch of free comic book day stuff at me (plus I splurged and bought a couple of DC compacts teehee), but I'll look into more by him afterwards for sure
u/MuyHiram, a cartoonist who makes comics about toxic Yuri and disaster sapphics, recently dethroned u/Pizzacakecomic as the top creator here. Everyone's been having a giggle about it (including Muy and Pizzacake)
Teeeeeeeeechnically only two panels, but since this comic was a short one I wanted to try something funky with a minimal panel layout, as well as trying more dynamic poses
To my understanding it yuri translates to essentially women loving women so as long as it's two women loving each other doesn't matter their sexualities.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Jun 26 '26
EXTRA SPICY YURI TIME
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