Asterix and the Secret Weapon

Ever since Asterix the Gaul, Asterix has lent a special brand of linguistic humour to the English language. I don't know if this works in every translation, but it's instantly recognisable. You either like it or you don't - if you do, there's a strong compulsion to collect and read them all and then try your hand at the translations. I find them very, very funny. Even when I'm revisiting for the nth time I can still see something fresh and clever that I missed before. To understand it fully needs a near-adult sense of humour and knowledge of vocabulary, but younger readers can find plenty for them, too.