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Asterix and Tintin are my favourite graphic novels. I wish I could read in French!
You can keep your Marvel & DC!
Though the graphic 'The Last Hero' by Terry Pratchett is good.
The Gauls are of course Celts and the Romans did write a lot of lies about Celts. A Celtic tribe sacked Rome in retribution over Roman perfidy in mediation between some Celts and Etruscans.
"The only thing they feared was the sky falling on them." Very authentic. Part of an old Celtic oath and in a document when Celtic Mercenaries agreed to help guard Macedonia when Eskandar (Alexander) the Great went off to conquer.
"If I break this vow, may the sky fall upon me, may the earth open to swallow me up, and may the sea rise to sweep me away." Though it would have been in a proto Gaeiic.
One tribe of Celts got in trouble with EVERYONE for sacking Delphi.
The Helvetii (see name of Switzerland) helped guide Hannibal across the Alps.
Cleopatra (not really Egyptian, descended from one of Alexander's Generals) employed Celtic Mercenaries.
Celts in Southern Ireland (copper) and Cornwall (tin) traded bronze across the Med for gold and wine, so the Greeks knew them and called them the Keltoi.
There is a curious amount of real history in Asterix. Some more accurate than Julius Caesar's biased accounts. The Romans really, really hated the Celts (Gauls).
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