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The Pogues’ second album Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash features Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa on the cover. In a slight change to the original, the faces of the band members feature among those on the ill-fated vessel.
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A lovely pastiche of this painting also crops up as a panel in Asterix The Legionary , when the hapless pirates have once again been sunk by Asterix and Obelix, and are adrift on a ramshackle raft: one of the pirates remarks, “We’ve been framed, by Jericho!”
