India, March 28 -- Gaulwasi Asterix. A literal translation of Asterix in Gaul , our favourite comic hero is back in Hindi to draw in fans from a cross-section of society that would naturally warm up to an underdog story and to whom superheroes are all about super achievers and least about human frailty. They are oddballs who fight while having fun and renew us with the comforting warmth of nostalgia. So it is that a city-based publisher decided to get down to the business of taking the franchise to a larger audience. And yesterday, French Ambassador Alexander Ziegler launched the first of the comic books in Delhi.

The series follows the adventures of a village of Gauls as they resist Roman occupation in 50 BC. The comic book that extends...