
Ekonomikrisis - Provides transport to and from Rome Brutus - Featuring an amusingly ironic exchange with Julius Caesar at the circus the Pirates - parodying French comic ', serialized in Pilote at the time.


Geriatrix - Obelix asks him to run his delivery service while he is away, his feisty personality was not shown at this time, neither was the fact.

After a brief journey, the Gauls arrive home and Ekonomikrisis keeps his promise to return Caius Fatuous to Rome the villagers celebrate the return of their heroes with a banquet, only with Cacofonix having to sit it out bound and gagged after offering to sing a song to celebrate his triumphant return.This book is noteworthy in the Asterix series as the first in which Obelix says his famous 'These Romans are crazy!' An of Asterix the Gladiator adapted by and narrated by was released on Listen for Pleasure label in 1988.
