The Mansions of the Gods

The satellite town ( original French title: Le Domaine des Dieux ) is the 17th volume of the Asterix comic book series, and was written by René Goscinny and drawn by Albert Uderzo. In 1971 he appeared in the French magazine Pilote in issues 591-612. In Germany he appeared in 1974 as a band .. It is the sequel of Asterix in Switzerland and the predecessor of the Laurel Wreath.

Action

Julius Caesar tries to break through the frame of a city on the Roman pattern in the immediate vicinity of the resistance of the Gaulish village. But architect Quadratus and the Legionaries charged with its security are soon facing issues: the clearing of the building site fails, first, that the Gauls every day regrow torn at night oaks with acorns, which has dealt with a spell means the druid Getafix, leave. As slaves then be used for the clearing work, Asterix and Obelix administer these in the Roman camp Aquarium potion to support an uprising. But the slaves use their unusual powers only to enforce better working conditions and pay. Upon completion of the removal of trees they should be then released. Since this is about to fail because of the constant regrowth of trees, the chief slave Duplikata finally asks the Gauls to stop sowing the magic acorns, whereupon the first Insulation can be built.

The Roman residents are forcibly recruited as part of a contest for the part, but feel in Gaul initially quite well. The Roman housewives afford the proposal of the Legionaries of their food purchase to the completion of the shopping center in the surrounding camps, no follow-up, but decide to meet their needs in the Gaulish village - which has the consequence that there are rising prices and a shop opened after the other. This makes for considerable strife and Caesar's plan seems to be working.

Well short of a Asterix and Obelix. Obelix is behaving as an aggressive lunatic, which can be held only with difficulty under control while Asterix acts as his keeper. After giving the Roman couple that has come through the competition at his home and has been repeatedly frightened by Obelix explains that his friend had unfortunately escaped his supervision, travels from the couple in a panic. In the vacant apartment of the bard Troubadix pulls a. After his first singing exercises in the new domicile pull the remaining Roman tenants rushed.

In order not to let the insula are empty, the Roman commander roosts their legionnaires in the block of flats, which begin immediately in small bourgeois fashion, to discuss the quality of living and co-owner meetings. Troubadix is unceremoniously removed from the insula, which is used for the inhabitants of the Gallic village as an occasion to attack the Legion to destroy the only house the satellite town and grow the woods again, so that after this happy outcome of the traditional banquet may be held.

Comments

At the beginning of the comic, the defeat of Vercingetorix from the perspective of Caesar is portrayed. In the volumes of Asterix the Gaul and Asterix and the Chieftain's Shield each a " counter notification " this scene from Gallic point of view, by no means depressed and broken in the Vercingetorix his weapons Caesar does not appear before, but raises the feet, what this led to a cry of pain. This second representation of the defeat of the Gauls missing in " The satellite town ".

Quadratus be attributed to the beginning of the comic various inventions of later times, such as the construction of the first "Buy Domus ", where there is simply everything, or a " driving Reins ", which works on the principle of a drive-in cinemas: The Quad Rigae are here grouped around the fighting area in an amphitheater. The construction of the satellite town itself and the massive advertising campaigns to find residents who have role models in the 20th century, as the construction of high-rise district Parly II

The quizmaster in the Circus Maximus, which compels the winner, the prize - an apartment in the satellite town - adopt against his will, is a caricature of the French television entertainer Guy Lux and contributes in the German edition the name Franco campus after Peter Franken field. Another caricature is a slave to the image of the poet Fernando Pessoa.

In the original French version is called the Roman architect Anglaigus derived from angle aigu - " acute angle ". Centurion Hasenfus bears in French the name Oursenplus of ours en peluche - "Teddy Bear".

Publication

In France, the story first appeared in 1971 as a series in the French magazine Pilote in issues 591-612 and was published in 1971 as an album in the publishing house Dargaud. In the German translation of the story of the Ehapa publishing house from 1971 in the magazine MV - Comix was ( books 18/1971 up to 5/ 1972) first published in 1974 and released as a 17 band in the Asterix series. 2002, this band has been reissued and was given a new title screen.

The band appeared among others in English, Spanish and Turkish as well as in the dialects " Berlinerisch ", " Hamburgisch " and " Alemannic ".