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Who here has read the comic Tintin? I've read all of them, and thought them to be pretty good. They are adventuresome, suspenseful, and funny (especially Thompson and Thomson).
I do have some reservations about some of the episodes--namely The Seven Crystalballs/Prisoners of the Sun series. I didn't like all the voodoo junk in there. Rather weird.
I like most of them though, like the Calculus Affair, Destination Moon, King Ottakar's Scepter. Also the continuing story arc with the archvillain Rastapopulous is reminiscent of AIO and Dr. Blackgaard. How about you? Do you like Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock, and the rest of the gang?
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I do have some reservations about some of the episodes--namely The Seven Crystalballs/Prisoners of the Sun series. I didn't like all the voodoo junk in there. Rather weird.
I like most of them though, like the Calculus Affair, Destination Moon, King Ottakar's Scepter. Also the continuing story arc with the archvillain Rastapopulous is reminiscent of AIO and Dr. Blackgaard. How about you? Do you like Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock, and the rest of the gang?
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Yes! Yes! Tintin! Someone has finally talked about my passion! I have all the books! (all of them but the Soviet one) I'm wearing Tintin "Blue Lotus" slippers on my feet right now! I have a ceramic Snowy and a bunch of videos and radio dramatizations and was thinking about making a fan site! (Seriously Dr. Watson, we should get to know each other better.) Let's talk about Tintin. No one else seems to have heard about him. So...what's your favorite book? Character? Captain Haddock insult?
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Billions of blistering barnacles, another Tintin fan!
Hmm...favorite book is probably Destination Moon/Explorers on the Moon. That was pretty cool with Prof Calculus and the rocket and everything. Next in line is probably The Calculus Affair. Actually, our library has all of the books except The Calculus Affair, Red Sea Sharks, and something I can't think of.
Thompson and Thomson are VERY funny. Like in King Ottokar's Scepter when they are meeting King Ottokar:
Thomson: "It's a pleasure your Majesty..."
Thompson: "It's a majesty your Pleasure--no that's not right..."
They kinda remind me of Harlow Doyle on AIO. Do you know you can tell them apart? One of them has a straight moustache and the other has a curly moustache! I forget which one has which.
What's your favorite book?
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Hmm...favorite book is probably Destination Moon/Explorers on the Moon. That was pretty cool with Prof Calculus and the rocket and everything. Next in line is probably The Calculus Affair. Actually, our library has all of the books except The Calculus Affair, Red Sea Sharks, and something I can't think of.
Thompson and Thomson are VERY funny. Like in King Ottokar's Scepter when they are meeting King Ottokar:
Thomson: "It's a pleasure your Majesty..."
Thompson: "It's a majesty your Pleasure--no that's not right..."
They kinda remind me of Harlow Doyle on AIO. Do you know you can tell them apart? One of them has a straight moustache and the other has a curly moustache! I forget which one has which.
What's your favorite book?
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I'm more partial to "Freshwater Swabs", myself...but Blue Blistering Barnacles is a good one.
My favorite character is Tintin. I think I've changed my mind...I don't want to marry Robert Mitchell anymore...I want to marry Tintin. (I wonder what sort of last name I'll get.) Haddock is my second fav. Sometimes it seems like he's more funny than the Thompson twins, with all his insults and facial expressions. Third fav is Snowy. (So cute!)
I'm just reading The Calculus Affair now...all about Haddock's sticking plaster escapade. Ha ha!
Have you read Herge's notes on his final book...Tintin and Alph-Art?
Do you have any Tintin-related merchandise?
My favorite character is Tintin. I think I've changed my mind...I don't want to marry Robert Mitchell anymore...I want to marry Tintin. (I wonder what sort of last name I'll get.) Haddock is my second fav. Sometimes it seems like he's more funny than the Thompson twins, with all his insults and facial expressions. Third fav is Snowy. (So cute!)
I'm just reading The Calculus Affair now...all about Haddock's sticking plaster escapade. Ha ha!
Have you read Herge's notes on his final book...Tintin and Alph-Art?
Do you have any Tintin-related merchandise?
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Trent DeWhite wrote:I've read fragments of various Tintin books . . . we don't actually have one in our possession, and I've never really gotten that interested in the comic. Perhaps I should have?
Bashi-bazouk! Of course you should be interested! Read one--now, or else I'll send Rastapopulous after you!
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So that's how you spell it! I was looking through our books...but couldn't find out how to spell it.Dr. Watson wrote:Bashi-bazouk!
My fav book is...um...i can't decide. I like them all. My father dearest used to read them to us when I was little and we'd all pile on the couch around him and we'd read all 62 pages. (It's 62, right?) I really like Red Rackham's Treasure and...others that I cannot think of right now.
Sand bagging body snatcher! Woo! Haddock is my absolute favorite character. There are also a bunch of Tintin comics which are not published any more. I can't remember why, but I once checked out a book from the library about Herge, and there were a bunch of them. I would really like to get my hands on them.
Those would be the ones. I believe there were others too. They look interesting although quite different.Frank wrote:Which Tintin comics aren't being published anymore? Like Tintin in the Land of the Soviets or Tintin in the Congo?
And we also have books on Georges Reme (Herge's real name) and the Tintin legacy...they're quite exquisite.
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They do look really interesting. I guess Herge hadn't really developed his Tintin style quite just yet, but I'm happy on the one that he settled on. (I've heard that he re-drew Tintin in the Congo and some of those others...but i think those weren't translated to English.)Me wrote:Those would be the ones. I believe there were others too. They look interesting although quite different.Frank wrote:Which Tintin comics aren't being published anymore? Like Tintin in the Land of the Soviets or Tintin in the Congo?
And we also have books on Georges Reme (Herge's real name) and the Tintin legacy...they're quite exquisite.
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My siblings and I discovered the Tin-Tin comic books a long while ago at our library! We couldn't get enough of them! I've read everyone at least once, but some of them were really hard to find. Anyway, those are great classic stuff!
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