Pack your bags! Asterix and Obelix are off on a a new adventure – Asterix in Lusitania – this October, in a new adventure by Fabrice Caro (Fabcaro) and Didier Conrad.
Unlike their expedition to the distant snowy steppes seen in Asterix and the Griffin, published in 2021, this story is set in much sunnier climes – this time, the extreme southwest of the Roman empire, a land today known as Portugal, known for its wealth of historical monuments, its culinary delights, and above all, the generosity of its inhabitants.
The creators of the new adventure are keeping the plot close to their chest, Fabcaro teasing only that a former Lusitanian slave we met in The Mansions of the Gods is going to ask our friends for help…
The Mansion of the Gods, by the character’s original creators, René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, first published back in 1971, released as an animated feature in 2014, was the first Asterix book in which Obelix’s pet Dogmatix’s ecological sensitivity is firmly established. (Every time a tree is uprooted, the little dog dissolves in tears).
Asterix and Obelix’s 25th journey beyond Gaul, published internationally, Asterix in Lusitania will go on sale from 23rd October 2025. The 41st Asterix album, it will be published in the UK by Little Brown and available in American English from Papercutz.
The latest book is initially being simultaneously published in 19 languages and dialects, with a global five million print run.
• Asterix in Lusitania is available to preorder now (AmazonUK Affiliate Link) | ISBN: 978-1408724996
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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