YMMV / Asterix and the Falling Sky

• Bizarro Episode: Aliens (a Mocky Mouse and his Superman Substitute bodyguards vs. Manga-like insectoids and super robots) show up in a series based on a parody of the historical Roman-dominated era. And yep, it ends with the good toon-like aliens erasing the villagers' memories of this episode.
• Critic-Proof: It was the top selling French language comic in 2006, despite both critics and the public disliking it in retrospect.
• Ending Fatigue: What seems like the obvious ending point for the story comes when the Gauls have a banquet following their defeat of the Nagmas. There are actually a dozen or so pages still to go at this point, first revolving around the Romans attempting to attack the Gauls, then Getafix trying to cure Toon of the potion's side effects.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Most fans would rather believe that this story never happened.
• Never Live It Down: The album is often perceived as a crass and xenophobia-tainted rant against manga, and as such ended up nigh-universally reviled and often put on the table as a reason why Albert Uderzo should have stopped helming the series alone. He eventually retired a few years later, due to increasing pain in his hands preventing him from drawing. It still induces negative views of the man among French fans of comic books and/or manga.
• Seasonal Rot: It's pretty much unanimously considered to be the worst Asterix album in the long history of the series.
• Shallow Parody: The Nagmas are supposed to be a Take That! to manga and anime culture, but it's very obvious from the character's appearance and behavior that Uderzo's knowledge of the entire art form extends to having flicked through some Super Robot thing on television back in the '70s and seeing some Beyblades in a toy shop. In his public apology for the quality of the book, he admitted that his hatred of manga stemmed from flipping through a sexually-explicit one at the library (stating that it "teaches children to have sex") and wishing the Japanese would Think of the Children! (it's worth noting that France has legally binding age restrictions for comics).

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