Collects three books from the comic series "Asterix," in which Asterix and Obelix travel to Helvetia for the antidote to a poison, foil a Roman housing development plot, and try to fetch Caesar's laurel wreath for a stew for Chief Vitalstatistix.
On their way to the annual druids' conference, Asterix, Obelix, and Getafix encounter the Goths who intend to invade Gaul and Rome by kidnapping Getafix and immediately Asterix and Obelix rush to the rescue.
A comic-style story in which Asterix, a Gaul warrior, finds himself in a predicament when the druid who makes the potion that gives Asterix his superhuman strength, is hit by a flying monolith and forgets the formula just before a scheduled bout with Vitalstatistix.
Presents English translations of fourteen short, cartoon-style stories, originally published in French, featuring the characters of Asterix and Obelix, friends in ancient Gaul.
