Asterix and Obelix All at Sea
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Asterix and Obelix All At Sea (La Galère d'Obélix) |
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| Date | 1996 |
| Series | Asterix |
| Creative team | |
| Writers | Albert Uderzo |
| Artists | Albert Uderzo |
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| Date of publication | 1996 |
| Language | French |
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| Preceded by | Asterix and the Secret Weapon |
| Followed by | Asterix and the Actress |
Asterix and Obelix All at Sea (French: La Galère d'Obélix, "Obelix's galley [ship]") is the thirtieth volume of the Asterix comic book series, by Albert Uderzo. The album was dedicated to Uderzo's grandchild, as well as American actor Kirk Douglas.
A band of slaves led by Spartakis (a parody of Spartacus) have taken over Julius Caesar's personal galley; whereupon Caesar sends his Admiral Crustacius to recover it.
After some arguing about a safe place to disembark, the slaves decide to set sail for the only place safe from the Romans: Asterix' Gaulish village. Crustacius, in pursuit, prepares to attack the village. When the Gauls prepare for battle, Obelix is (as usual) denied Getafix's magic potion. As the Gauls return victorious from battle, they find Obelix has drunk the remaining cauldron of magic potion - Getafix having made two cauldrons - and that this overdose has turned him into stone.
The former galley slaves are granted refuge, and Getafix tries desperate measures to revive Obelix. Ultimately Obelix returns to life; but as a child, and deprived of his strength. He thereafter is kidnapped by Roman soldiers as a hostage, and the former slaves travel with Asterix, Dogmatix, and Getafix to rescue him. After dropping off Crustacius, his adjutant Vice-Admiral Nautilus, and Caesar's galley with the pirates, Getafix guides his companions to the remnants of Atlantis (the Canary Islands), where the Atlantides have found eternal youth, in the hope that they can restore Obelix's adulthood; but learns that the Atlantides are unable to increase a patient's age. Therefore the Gauls head back to the village, while the freed slaves remain on Atlantis as children forever. On their way back, the Gauls are intercepted by another Roman galley, whereupon Asterix is incapacitated by a catapult stone. Seeing his friend in danger provokes Obelix to recover his strength and size, and rescue him; whereafter Obelix destroys the Roman outpost near the village, before returning for the village's victory feast.
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