The debates have been passionate, and you have been voting in large numbers. Now is the time to reveal the results of our 2007 Asterix polls: Asterix is your favourite character, and Asterix and Cleopatra your favourite cover! The complete 2007 Hall of Fame, as well as the results of our hilarious “silliest sausage in Rome” Referendum are now available here.
And by the way, just as we promised, your 16 favourite characters will have the privilege of appearing as top seeds in our new edition of the Tournament of the Indomitables, to begin next Monday.
Today our friend Ptenisnet is revealing the results of the Tournament draw. With a remarkable surprise: Beefix is top seed number 4! Our Belgian friend really has a chance to make a difference this season… No doubt that he’s a player to follow this year!
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Already at the top of best-selling books lists in France, Spain and Greece, Astérix et ses amis – Hommage à Albert Uderzo is now published in Finland.
The French Asterix Grand Collection is even grander today thanks to the publication of two new titles: Asterix Gladiateur and La Rose et le Glaive. 
Whilst Gaulish folk seem to take great pleasure in holding various electoral exercises, common sense tells us that all good things must come to an end... 
Following the advice of his friend Doubleclix, who announced in one of his Missives that the utopia of the Asterix global village was rapidly expanding through the entire Known World, Merlin, our crazy collector of Asterix memorabilia, took up his pilgrim’s staff and headed out into the world in search of new amazing articles for his collection.