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The Name Of The Best-Selling Comic Of 2017 – Revealed

It will be the best selling comic book of 2017. The last volume sold over five million. And today we get the name of the new book.

Asterix And The Race Through Italy.

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After Asterix and the Picts and Asterix and the Missing Scroll, Asterix and Obelix are back with Asterix and the Race Through Italy, the new album created by  Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad. Unfortunately for Obelix, the inhabitants of Ancient Italy are not all Romans. The Italics want to keep their independence and take a dim view of Julius Caesar and his Legions' plans for total domination. In Asterix and the RACE through ITALY, our heroes will embark on an exciting adventure to explore the fascinating world of Ancient Italy.


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And it's a broadening of the concept of Ancient Italy that's behind this scenario. "Italy is so much more than Caesar, Rome and the Coliseum." explain
Didier Conrad and Jean-Yves Ferri. "We realised that it was finally time for Asterix and Obelix to find out what Italy was really like. And we were sure Albert Uderzo would approve, as his family is originally from Venice."

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Out, worldwide on 19th October with a first print run of four million copies.

 


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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