As we plunge further and further into this pandemic, some people have noticed that a comic book in 2017 published by Belgian authors called Asterix and the Chariot Race has a strange character in it called coronavirus.

It has left a lot of people perplex wondering what this could mean if it means anything.

And so I want to look at Asterix Comics in general and this one in particular to see how

this actually makes total sense that it's in this comic book that we would have seen a strange

prophecy of what is happening today.

This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world.

Now, Asterix is one of the most famous European comic books.

A lot of people are not aware of that in the United States because Americans don't interact much with other cultures. But when I was young, as a French-speaking French-Canadian,

I read Asterix comics all the time. And what's interesting in Asterix comics is that

it is really about what is happening today.

There is a lot of stuff in there which is dealing with the problem of Europe, for example,

the problem of globalism, because the story of Asterix is about a gall, 50 years before Christ,

in the time when Julius Caesar was expanding the

Roman, the beginning of the Roman Empire, and he's taken over Gaul.

But there is one village in Gaul that is resisting, and it is Asterix's village.

Most of the stories revolve around how these Gaul, Gaul village resists the Roman power, how they're fighting the Romans, how the Romans try to take them over through different strategies, through infiltration, through all, through giving them a lot of money, you know, giving them a lot of financial opportunities, all kinds of strategies that they will find

in order to finally invade this Gaul village. But the village has a secret potion, which is made

by a druid, which gives them invulnerability, and therefore helps them to resist the Roman

Empire. Now, of course, we can understand that the whole comic book is about identity and the problem of identity and the problem of a system, a government, which would try to include everything, and not leave room for an exception,

not leave room also for other smaller identities to exist within the,

within in relationship to the bigger one,

to at least have all those identities be included in the big empire

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