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Mistakes: Asterix and the Laurel Wreath

Mistakes in the Asterix Books : Asterix and the Laurel Wreath

General
GreeK?
You wouldn't think he was from Greece to look at him. In the Asterix world, Greeks are traditionally drawn with hooked noses, usually from a side-on angle. This slave looks nothing like that traditional Greek Images, which leaves me to believe this may be a mistake on the translators part (though Damien tells me this guy WAS Greek in the French original)... or the letterers?

At a first glance there is nothing wrong with this image, but look closely at Asterix's hand. Now look at yours........ that's right, twist it so it is the same as Asterix - remember - it is your left hand. But it s not possible, it seems that Asterix has his right hand on his left arm, in fact a Left-Right hand, if you know what I mean. A not so obvious mistake, but a mistake all the same. Thanks to Piotr for the alert!

Amy has this explanation: "It just occured to me that the -right hand might just be asterix's hand going in front of his body, like maybe that is his right arm coming over his left shoulder???

Tan counters Amy's suggestion: "this can't be right, look at the elbow in the picture, if it was the right arm going over the left shoulder the elbow couldn't bend like that!"

Left Right Arm
Homeopathix
Homeopathix wears some bling... er a necklace when he first meet him on page 8 but by panel 9 it has gone. It is back again on page 10.
Homeopathix
Italian fan Alessio spotted this one: "At 14 on the slave stage, you can see a white line on the light pink drape behind the slaves. Then if you see on page 15 and 16 it disappear to be back on the second half of p17. Then, in the 1999 Italian version, the sign of the stage is blue colored . Then turns to gray when the stage is destroyed on p17 without letters and gray with letters in the beginning of p18."

If you know of any more mistakes in Asterix and the Laurel Wreath, please contact me.