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Uderzo, trans. by Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge, collects 14 ""all-new"" comic tales of the titular Gallic warrior never before published, alongside others that appeared separately from the 1960s to the present. Some fun historical tidbits: a 1986 comic, ""The Lutetia Olympics,"" was printed to bolster Paris's bid for the 1992 games, while ""Chanticleerix,"" (2003, published for the first time here), details an avian battle of symbolic proportions between the Gaulish rooster and the Roman eagle. Fans of these smart works should be kept in hysterix. (July) .