Quote Originally Posted by deltamire View Post
(Jesus, looking through my old copy, these comics were just very enthusiastic about wordplay and puns. Does that carry on from the original French, or was it added post-translation?)
Oh god, you have no idea. Goscinny (the author) is all about puns, sometimes the setup for a pun takes almost the entire album (like the grognards joke from Astérix in Corsica).
That said, Iznogoud is the place where he really lets loose, it's hard to find a panel without a pun somewhere.