Asterix Versus Caesar Author:Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo This volume lacks the charm of the comics. The Asterix series doesn't lend itself to narrative form, and that is how this book is presented - with passages told by Asterix and by one of the Roman Officers. It is a transcription of a cartoon movie, more or less, and so is not as creative as the comics or the movie. — This book is based on the fil... more »m ASTERIX VERSUS CAESAR which, in turn, is based on an adaptation of the books ASTERIX THE GLADIATOR and ASTERIX THE LEGIONARY. The format is a linear text supplemented by many really beautiful reproductions of cells from the movie. Although it is beautiful to look at, it lacks much of the essential pacing and timing that Goscinny and Uderzo are such masters of when working in the traditional "panels with word balloons" format of "comic" books.« less