The best things about Tintin are:1. Snowy.2. Captain Haddock's cursing and insults.3. Total preposterousness. The worst things about Tintin are:1. Patronising/offensive racial stereotyping.2. Patronising/offensive national stereotyping.3. Annoying cliff-hangers at the end of books. The above are...
It is the last of the Tintin books and it is very sad. It is unfinished, due to the creator passing away while making this book. Leaeves an empty place inside you when the story fades in to blank paper.
This is the last of the completed Tintin books and in a way does finally tie everything up. Granted, nobody ever lives happily ever after, but I do feel that it does round off and complete what I consider to be a ground breaking series of books that are incredibly funny and very entertaining. This a...
The version of this album that I read was the unauthorised completed version. I do offer my sincere apologies to the Herge estate, but I really could not read the published sketch version simply because it was clearly uncompleted. Herge began writing this in 1980 (his original idea of setting the fi...
Well, this was confusing. There were two editions of the collected Adventures of Tintin and two different first volumes - this one containing The Adventures of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets and Tintin in Congo. The other volume starts with Tintin in America, which is contained in volume 2 of ...
Arguably the best Tintin book, Herge reportedly wrote it when he was going through a deep, personal crisis with his wife.This time, the story does not involve an intricate and complex conspiracy, but a personal struggle, as Tintin and Captain Haddock go on an odyssey to Tibet to save a friend who wa...
I used to love this one as a kid because it had lots of machine guns in it. However, since I have returned to reading the Tintin books so that I know what I am writing about (as opposed to some books that I am not really interested in rereading, namely because they are too long and that there are ot...
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