Have a strong attachment to this because I've owned a copy since I was little and have read it numerous times. The story actually doesn't kick in until a fair way into the story - there's quite a few pages devotedt o Vitalstatistix being sick and deciding to take the cure first, before the stuff about looking for the Chieftan's Shield starts. It really feels like it is taking place in a different part of Gaul (all that wine and charcoal) and the digs at the refusal of the French to remember Alesia is fun. There is a bit of Gaulish history in this one, with the battles of Gregovia and Alesia - Asterix mightn't have been Tacitus but they weren't bad when it came to illustrating history.
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