The Adventures of Tintin: Cigars of the Pharaoh
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780828850216 (0828850216)
Publish date: December 15th 1991
Publisher: French & European Publications Inc
Pages no: 62
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Adventure,
Cultural,
Mystery,
France,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Comic Book,
Komik,
Bande Dessinée
Series: Tintin (#4)
Thankfully, this was a vast improvement upon the previous book, Tintin In America. The plotting was tighter and the character of Tintin starting to be more developed.The funny bits were actually funny, which helped, and the introduction of Thompson and Thomson gave the story an added dimension missi...
This is the story where Tintin comes on his own. While it was still written in a serialised form when it first appeared back in 1934, this story has a proper story arc where Tintin stumbles on a sophisticated drug smuggling ring that stretches across the entire Eurasian continent. It is here that Ti...
Reminded me of the old times ... Very amusing !
I admit I didn't really know anything about Tintin when we started in reading this. Oh, he's been whirling around the zeitgeist for a long while: my best roommate had a framed poster of Tintin in Tibet hanging in our living room, I've seen snatches of the tv show when I've checked them out of the li...