A review by vigneswara_prabhu
Asterix ja normannien maihinnousu by René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo

4.0

Normans, who some plebeians call Norse men, a race of warriors who know no fear. Unfortunately that's a problem for them; 'For fear gives one wings' as they say; and the Normans want to know fear and thus fly on those wings. So,what do they do? They decide to go and invade the nearby land of the Gauls to find an 'expert' who will teach them to fear and fly. Unfortunately, this also happens to be when our favorite Gaul village is visited by 'Justforkix', the bratty petulant nephew to chief Vitalstatistix. Now the group has to deal with a band of warriors who are tougher than the Romans as well as fix up a youngster going through the rebellious phase. And as usual, chaos ensues.

The Normans live up to their fearsome reputations; They might be dumb as a doorknob, but when it comes to fighting, they are more than a match, at least in tenacity to the invincible gauls.



And boy do they have some hilarious pun filled names, a shower of them in fact.


Which is not including the other hurricane worth of puns n this chapter

Postaldistrix
Doublehelix
Justforkix
Timandahaf
Selfservix
Toocleverbyhaf
firsthaf
secondhaf
psychopaf
epitaf
cenotaf
transportcaf
chiffcaf
nescaf
autograf


But the real MC of the day is Cacophanix, the not so secret nuclear deterrent of the Gauls, everyone's least favorite bard. If there ever comes a time when the village loses the recipe of the magic potion of invincibility, fear not, Cacophanix can single handedly make everyone, Romans, Gauls, Normans, a bunch of poor farm animals, everyone, run away in mortal fear. The single most powerful entity, who, literally put the fear of the good lord into the previously fearless Norman. That is how good (terrible) he is; be warned.



Finally, remember kids, don't uproot innocent trees, if you don't want sweet little dogmatix to weep.