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  • April 10, 2022 13:53
April 10, 2022 13:53
Which editions do you think are the best in terms of coloring, translation, cover, etc... for these three series?
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  • April 11, 2022 13:10
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April 11, 2022 13:10
As far as Asterix is concerned, I appreciate the old versions (Illustreerde Pers & Dargaud) in translation, but the deluxe large-format editions with the added (facsimile) black-and-white pages are very beautiful. They just aren't there for every story.
Redbeard is the most beautiful in the full edition of Sherpa. Roodbaard is available for the first time completely and chronologically in Dutch.
The Blueberry editions of Sherpa are also the most beautiful versions. Although the 5 French Mister Blueberry softcover albums in black and white (Dargaud) from that series contain slightly larger pages.
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  • April 11, 2022 16:37
April 11, 2022 16:37
morph2011 I was told on another forum that for the Asterix albums the 1999 Hachette releases are the best option. Apparently they still have the original covers and translation. What is your opinion about this?

I have mixed feelings about the Sherpa integrals from Roodbaard. On the one hand, I think a new coloring was necessary, but when I view the PDF on the Sherpa site with the ten pages as an example, I don't get excited about it. It just seems a little too "digital" to me. It is of course possible that it looks much different on paper.

From Blueberry I was already of the opinion that Giraud's drawings come into their own better on "grainy" paper, so I was looking for editions from the years 1970s, the leaves of which were all still firmly in the glue. To my regret, that is no longer the case with most of those albums. The integrals, which (if I'm not mistaken) make use of that "grainy" paper, are indeed my best option I suspect.
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  • April 13, 2022 16:37
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April 13, 2022 16:37
I was told on another forum that for the Asterix albums the 1999 Hachette releases are the best option. They apparently still have the original covers and translation. What is your opinion about this?

I found this to have little added value compared to the previous editions.
But that's based on my judgment as a reader. Not as a collector.

I have a bit of mixed feeling about the Sherpa integrals from Roodbaard.
The coloring is different, on some points it is less noticeable. But with this point, what you can compare it to: old albums, pre-publication in Pep? Do they match what happened on the drawing board at the time, given the method of reproduction for a weekly magazine, where people then thought it was a matter of reading once and then throwing it away and perhaps an album first...

From Blueberry I was already of the opinion that Giraud's drawings look better on "grainy" paper
Then the first hardcover editions of Dargaud might also be a good choice for you.

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  • April 13, 2022 20:42
April 13, 2022 20:42
morph2011 Do you mean the Blueberry releases from the 1970s or the recent Dargaud integrals?
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  • April 16, 2022 00:46
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I mean the old loose hardcovers from Dargaud. From "Fort Navajo" (1978) to "Broken Nose" (1980), including the three parts "Young Years" with short stories (1978 - 1979). They are printed on the same type of paper as the soft-covers.

The HC parts after it, by Novedi, are on whiter paper. And "The end of the long ride" was not released in Dutch in the variant comparable to the Dargaud versions. Signed and numbered as luxury in a larger format in black and white, with print.

Dargaud's recent integrals have whiter pages. But they do contain interesting files.
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