The village comes up against one of their most formidable enemies, a slimy character who has a knack for turning everyone against each otherwherever he goes. This makes for an interesting, entertaining story -actually a bit traumatic at times seeing the villagers all turn on each other (they resort to physical violence very quickly!) This was thefirst book in the series where a couple of women in the village have a decent role - its fairly misogynistic caricature, though, with all of them being wives who want their husbands to be chief, and who do little more than bitch and shop (maybe the writers were going through domestic strife at the time) - having said that it is funny to see them smash each other in the face with fish. And one of them asks the loaded question - why is Asterix still a bachelor at his age? There is quite a tense finale with Getafix racing to prepare the magic potion before all the legions attack.
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