“Asterix the Gladiator” is the fourth volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). It was first serialized in the magazine Pilote, issues 126–168, in 1962. In this story, Cacofonix the Bard gets captured by the Romans. He is brought to Rome as a gift for the Emperor Julius Cesar. Cesar commands Cacofonix to be thrown to the wild animals in the arena during the next event. Asterix and Obelix are trying to rescue him, but doing so, they must become gladiators.
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“The Smurfnapper” (french “Le Voleur du Schtroumpfs”) is the third story in the comic series “The Smurfs”, created by the Belgian artist Pierre Culliford (known as “Peyo”). In this, the wizard Gargamel has his first appearance. He’s chasing the Smurfs as he needs one of them in order to fabricate the famous “Philosopher’s Stone”.
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“Grand Rodeo” (french “Grand Rodéo”) is the next comic adventure about the cowboy Lucky Luke created by Morris (Maurice de Bevere), first published in Spirou Magazine in 1948. In this Lucky Luke takes part in a rodeo, but one of his opponents, Cactus Kid, is not playing fair.
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“The Ventriloquist Horse” (french “Le Cheval Ventriloque”) is the seventh story within the series of adventures of the title character “Spirou”, first published in 1941 in the magazine of the same name. In the story Spirou has learned the art of ventriloquism and uses it to protect the lord of a castle who is about to be deprived of his fortune by his brother.
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“The Little Man who laughed” (french: “Le petit Homme qui rit”) is the third story in the series “The Little People” (“Les Petit Hommes”) drawn by Seron and first published in Spirou Magazine in 1969. In this story the Little People find one of them suffering from a strange desease and their doctors have to admit that they can’t cure him.
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Fulmen Grancolline closed the fridge again. Another ice cream. The how many on this day? He had lost count. It didn’t matter. Everything didn’t matter. He was frustrated. Things didn’t go as planned. Poor Antonia. She had been quite busy by Yefimov. She hadn’t imagined it that way either. But what happened?
The anniversary day should be special. The old space station VERI’S BASTION should go into operation. again. There was a hyperspace radio relay on it. Through this radio relay the transmissions of the ASTROCOHORS CLUB were to be sent through the ether and distributed all over the world. Actually not a big deal. Super easy. Barely an inconvenience. In fact, the relay also worked with all the sub-divisions of the CLUB. Only with the transmissions, which went through the headquarters in Iceland, something went wrong. Antonia Bagliarotto, Yefimov’s assistant, was forced to transmit each and every one of these broadcasts by hand. This was not what they had imagined.
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Fulmen had a suspicion. The shipments of the departments were processed via an external system. The system belonged to the CUYEL group. The relay also belonged to a corporation. With the troubling events taking place on Earth and in the solar system, the solar division of ASTROCOHORS had now begun to take over systems themselves. They even bought the land on which the various bases stood, such as the ATLANTIS. That guaranteed they were in control. Of course, the corporations didn’t like that. Fulmen suspected that automation via the relay was being slowed down on purpose in the hope that ASTROCOHORS would then continue to use the services of the corporations. But that shouldn’t be the case! The corporations continued to siphon off profits that ASTROCOHORS made. The independence of the head office was bought at a high price. Fulmen hoped Antonia would persevere. These were bad times, ASTROCOHORS had to remain stable. While he was pondering these dark thoughts, Fulmen had returned to his office from the kitchen. He also had work to do. Then he saw the text on the screen: “Warning, transmission from headquarters”. Oh dear, he thought, Antonia is still working too.
O almirante Manoel Vargas ergueu os olhos de sua mesa. Ao fazê-lo, notou o mostrador do relógio embutido na parede de seu escritório. Oh maldito! Ele quase esqueceu o compromisso. Mas todos os eventos o levaram tanto que ele quase o esqueceu completamente. Ele pulou da cadeira e saiu do escritório.
Lucy Barros, ASTROCOHORS CLUB Brasil
Vargas foi direto para a sala de briefing. Alguém estaria esperando por ele lá. Quando ele entrou na sala, ela já estava lá, uma mulher de quarenta e poucos anos com cabelos escuros e olhos escuros. “Tenente-comandante Luciana Barros?”, perguntou Vargas. “Isso mesmo, senhor”, respondeu a mulher. “Ótimo. Você notou tudo o que aconteceu?” “Só que o sistema solar está isolado do resto da galáxia ou algo assim”, disse Luciana. “Então vou informá-lo”, explicou o almirante. “O sistema solar está isolado do resto da galáxia, isso mesmo. Alguém reativou a antiga esfera de cristal que deveria proteger o sistema solar na Guerra Estelar.” “E protegido!”, objetou Barros. “Sim, claro. A esfera protegeu o sistema. Ela foi desligada, mas como seria muito complicado desmontar o aparelho, ela foi deixada onde estava. Alguém deve ter se aproveitado disso. Na época em que o “Quando a Esfera de Cristal foi ativada, um comboio estava a caminho de PORT MANTEAU através do fluxo do hiperespaço. Pelo menos uma das naves foi lançada de volta ao sistema solar. Não tivemos notícias da nave de sua antecessora, Comandante Beatriz del Almeida estava ligado. Esperamos que eles tenham passado. Veja, você chegou bem na hora. Você está no ASTROCOHORS CLUB há muito tempo?” “De fato, senhor”, respondeu Luciana. “Apesar de não haver um departamento do CLUB no Brasil por muito tempo. Mas os próprios ASTROCOHORS me contataram. Então eu me dei bem no mundo.” “Muito bem. Espero que você tenha mantido esse cosmopolitismo, porque precisaremos dele com urgência. Você notou o estado da terra.” “Eu tenho, senhor.” “É nosso trabalho colocar esse bando de bárbaros que estão prestes a destruir seu próprio planeta de volta ao caminho da ciência, longe da superstição e das crenças conspiratórias cada vez maiores. Alguém costumava chamar isso de ‘imunidade democrática de rebanho’.” Vargas limpou a garganta. “Sou seu superior e, na verdade, devo encorajá-lo”, disse ele. “Mas se você quer minha opinião honesta, podemos deixar isso de lado. Devemos reunir as naves da organização e encontrar uma maneira de escapar da esfera de cristal.” “E deixar a terra entregue ao seu destino?” Barros perguntou horrorizado. “Resposta simples: sim. Os terráqueos estragaram tudo sozinhos. Eles sabem disso há mais de cem anos, e o que eles fizeram? Nada! Por pura ganância por lucro. E porque agora ninguém mais quer mudar seu estilo de vida , são eleitos os políticos tagarelas, que prometem soluções simples e dizem que não precisa mudar nada. Os terráqueos não merecem mais nada!” “Senhor, com todo o respeito, eu também sou terráqueo!” “E em uma posição especial. Você pode escapar deste planeta com ASTROCOHORS.” “Não posso decepcionar meu povo!” “Seu povo escolheu esse destino sozinho. Você é mais razoável. Você merece mais.” “O quê? Como… como você ficou assim?” “Desde que estou trabalhando aqui, os terráqueos sempre me decepcionaram. Eles eram tão promissores. E agora? julgamentos de bruxas, apocalipse e tudo, que faz parte disso. Honestamente, eu invejo o Comandante Del Almeida. Eu deveria ter me encarregado de ser postado em outro lugar. E o bom é que você está aqui agora! Então você pode continuar aqui.” Ele foi até um terminal de computador instalado na parede e o ativou. “Computador”, falou em um pequeno microfone, “aqui é o almirante Vargas.” “Vargas, Manoel, identificador de voz positivo”, respondeu o computador. “Vou tirar uma folga ilimitada do meu trabalho imediatamente”, explicou Vargas. “Entrego todas as procurações necessárias à tenente-comandante Luciana Barros. Ela assume o cargo com efeito imediato.” “Transferência concluída”, informou o computador. “As permissões foram delegadas à tenente-comandante Luciana Barros. O almirante Manoel Vargas está oficialmente aposentado.” Vargas assentiu. “Divirta-se então,” ele disse sarcasticamente e se dirigiu para a porta. Lá ele se virou novamente. “A Terra”, disse ele com desdém, “é um planeta tosco e imundo. Não tenho a menor pena!” Com isso ele saiu, deixando uma Luciana Barros confusa que sabia que tinha muito trabalho a fazer.
Ostap Yefimov, the head of the ASTROCOHORS CLUB, looked concerned. He sat behind his desk and kept looking at the graphics that appeared on the computer monitor in front of him. There was no doubt. Of course it had happened. The enemy had really spoiled the organization’s day. The crystal sphere had been put into operation. Who knew those old devices were still in place, out in the Oort cloud? As a result, the solar system was now finally cut off from the rest of the galaxy. Everything would become more difficult now. As if it wasn’t difficult enough already.
Yefimov called for his assistant. Antonia Bagliarotto came to her superior’s office very quickly. “This is maybe an evening,” said Yefimov. “Did you hear it?” “Who hasn’t noticed?” the young woman replied. “So it’s true?” “We’re completely cut off – forever, if you will.” “And what now?” “I’ve already spoken to Admiral McCloud,” Yefimov explained. “We’ll keep going. Until we run out of ideas. Unfortunately, that will mean you have to work harder than we initially thought.” “What? How so?” “The Crystal Sphere is disrupting our communications. You will have to hand-curate the members of the club. At least until we have a new communications facility installed on VERIS BASTION.” “But… how long will that last?” “Unfortunately nobody can tell you that. I hope not for too long.” “Then I shall have to do it.” Yefimov nodded. “What irony. We wanted to celebrate today. It even had a motto: Tempora muntantur, nos et mutamur in ilis.“ “That… is Latin, isn’t it?” “Yes. Times are changing and we are changing with them. Seems we have to prove how well we can change. How well we adapt to changed conditions.” Antonia shrugged. “Then we will. What alternative is there?” “None, exactly.” Bagliarotto gazed into the distance, out the window of Yefimov’s office, at the vast landscape of Iceland. “I… feel like I’m standing on a beach holding the Book of Sanity while a storm comes over the sea.” “It’s a powerful image,” Yefimov confirmed. “Keep that for motivation. No one knows what will happen next. More trouble spots have opened up. Pestilence, wars and uprisings. We have to keep morale high and carry common sense.” “Yes, sir.”
These are strange times. With wars, rumors of wars and a pandemic, it’s time for ASTROCOHORS CLUB to regroup. In Iceland, Jarmo Dorak meets his contact Jeff Holland to discuss the way forward and the future of the club. Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis1…
1 = “Times are changing and we are changing with them”, that is a hexameter that has been used as a proverb since the 16th century. It goes back to the verse tempora labuntur tacitisque senescimus annis… (“Times pass and in quiet years we age…”) from Ovid’s Fasti.
“Clifton and the Spies” (French: “Clifton et les Espions”) is the third adventure of the comic character Colonel Harold Wilberforce Clifton and the last one that was drawn by Macherot. In this story, an old friend of Colonel Clifton is suspected of being a spy.
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“Asterix and the Goths” (French: “Astérix et les Goths”) is the third volume of the Asterix comic book series, by René Goscinny (stories) and Albert Uderzo (illustrations). It was first published in 1963 in French. In this story Getafix attends the conference of the druids in the forest of the Carnutes and gets kidnapped by Goths. They want him to help them to conquer the Roman Empire with his magic potion. But Asterix and Obelix are on their way…
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“The Purple Smurfs” (French original: “Les Schtroumpfs Noirs”) was in chronological order the first own adventure of the Smurfs, that first was published as a mini comic book, then re-edited to full size in 1963. In this story one of the Smurfs gets bitten by a mosquito and turns into a violent purple Smurf.
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“Lucky Luke’s Lookalike” (French: “La Sosie de Lucky Luke”) is a Western comic drawn by Belgian artist Morris. It was published in episodes in the Spirou Magazine from 1947 to 1948. In this story Lucky Luke encounters his doppelganger, who’s up to no good.
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“Spirou at the North Pole” (in French in three parts: “Spirou fait du cinéma”, “Spirou chez les Esquimaux”, and “Chez les trappeurs”) is an adventure of the Belgian bellhop that appeared in Spirou Magazine between November 1940 and March 1941. It was drawn by Belgian artist Joseph Gillian after Spirou’s creator Robert Velter was taken prisoner of war. The circumstances under which the adventure was created were anything but favorable…
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“The Escapees” (French: “Les Évadés”) is the second adventure in the comic the series of “The Little People”. Drawn by Seron, this scenario was written by Albert Desprechins. It is about two inhabitants of the city of the Little People who escape from prison and want to go to the “Big Ones”.
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