If you feel like playing today's game, then take a moment to come up with your best answers, and then compare them to the answers below:
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HINTS: (please don't look if you don't need them)
If you need a hint upon #3, then I'll offer two, but you must deduct 2pts from your overall score for reading each one. I'll go ahead and write the hints upside-down just below for those who don't want it.
˙ɹǝᴉsɐǝ ɥɔnɯ sᴉ Ɛ# uǝɥʇ 'ᄅ# ʇno ǝɹnƃᴉɟ uɐɔ noʎ ɟI (Ɩ
¿uoᴉƃǝɹ-puɐlsᴉ ʇɐɥʇ ɟo ʎʇᴉɔ uᴉɐɯ ǝɥʇ sᴉ ʇɐɥM (ᄅ
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ANSWERS:
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It's professor Pacôme de Champignac, Fantasio, Spirou, and Panoramix ("Getafix" in English translations) EDIT: Oh! I deserve a rap on the knuckles for omitting Spip the squirrel, and Idéfix ("Dogmatix"), The scoring has been adjusted.
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Astérix en Corse ("Asterix in Corsica"), the 20th Asterix album
"Corsica" is the best-selling title in the history of the series, owing to its sales in the French-speaking market, but is one of the least-selling titles in the English language. --WP
- The poster is from the annual comics festival in Ajaaccio, Corsica, an event I just learned about myself! Specifically, this is evidently a piece made by Fabrice Tarrin for the event, which... looks like it was maybe from the 19th show, from 2022?
SCORING:
- Give yourself 1pt for each character you correctly identified.
- Give yourself 3pts for identifying the correct tome.
- Give yourself another 4pts for identifying the -specific- city of the event. (let's give back a near-miss Corsican city 1pt in return, though)
HINTS:
As stated above, deduct two points for each hint taken earlier.
Max score is ~~11pts~~ 13pts. How did you do?
Btw, this here festival looks PRETTY GREAT!
And look, mateys-- it's coming up again in November...
https://festivalbdajaccio.corsica/
From left to right: Le comte de Champignac, Fantasio, Spirou, Panoramix
On the ground: Spip and Idéfix
The tome it is referencing is "Astérix en Corse", particularly the old men sitting in front of the Corsican village and commenting on what's going on around them.
The last question is too much: I guess it would be the festival of Angoulême.
Edit: Misspelled "Spip" and damn... never heard of the festival of Ajaccio before.
Whups, I forgot about Spip et Idéfix! I have adjusted the scoring, above.
So far you are in the lead for this mini-quiz, with 9pts. I scored only 8pts because I can never remember the count / professor's name. (I remember it as "mushroom" in English, but that's not quite right)