Asterix and Obelix is the thirtieth volume of the Asterix comic book series, by Albert Uderzo. The album was dedicated to Uderzo's grandchild, as well as American actor Kirk Douglas. A band of galley slaves under leadership of Spartakis have taken over Julius Caesar's personal galley - much to its possessor's irking, for which he sends his no-good admiral Crustacius to recover the ship. The statue of the admiral ends up in the Circus Maximus for the lions, with Caesar expressing his hopes to a baffled Cleopatra that one day the lions may actually develop a taste for [granite]] after all...