Asterix and Obelix, the anthological characters created by Uderzo and Goscinny, have already successfully faced 'Coronavirus' in a comic published in 2017 , which places the action in Italy, ahead of the battle that the world is now facing against this new ailment.
The Simpson's power to predict the future was already known to everyone: from the presidency of Donald Trump in the United States to the Nobel prizes of Bengt Holmström, economist, or Ben Feringa, chemist, the Matt Groenning series has achieved, since fiction, inexplicably anticipate issues of great importance that have ended up starring in reality.
This time, however, it has not been the inhabitants of Springfield who have advanced to the future, but these irreducible Gauls, settlers of that "village that resists, still and always, the invader", as the characteristic introduction of the comic says French
In the comic, published just three years ago under the title of 'Asterix in Italy' , the two protagonists face a Coronavirus , a masked character who, on the verge of winning the game, ends up suffering an accident a few meters from the goal , finally favoring the eternal victory of the Gauls.
When the mask is torn off, the reader discovers that, behind it, a Julius Caesar hides eager to win the victory. The coincidence is twofold: the race of quadrigans that for a long time captain Coronavirus takes place in Italy, a coincidence more than remarkable in the face of recent events.
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