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The Black Island (Tintin #7)
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I reread The Black Island today after more than two decades. I used to own all the Tintin comics when I was a kid. I lost all of them to school mates who borrowed but never returned them. I have spent many a childhood night in bed cursing and plotting revenge against those careless school mates.
It's still very entertaining. Upto its neck in action with goats and magpies and gorillas and planes. Snowy gets drunk on whiskey. Boisterous and superstitious Scottish characters. Great illustrations of idyllic Scottish villages and countrysides with pubs and the great outdoors. But something was missing. Tintin's relentless quest for justice was boring. He is a bit of a prick. He hardly has any friends. Only Snowy. Herge is no Graham Greene. And he is crap at drawing beer mugs. The smaller illustrations were better than the ones with larger canvases.
Anyway, I guess I'm searching too deep for meaning in a comic book that is supposed to entertain. And it was pretty entertaining and hilarious and imaginative.
It's still very entertaining. Upto its neck in action with goats and magpies and gorillas and planes. Snowy gets drunk on whiskey. Boisterous and superstitious Scottish characters. Great illustrations of idyllic Scottish villages and countrysides with pubs and the great outdoors. But something was missing. Tintin's relentless quest for justice was boring. He is a bit of a prick. He hardly has any friends. Only Snowy. Herge is no Graham Greene. And he is crap at drawing beer mugs. The smaller illustrations were better than the ones with larger canvases.
Anyway, I guess I'm searching too deep for meaning in a comic book that is supposed to entertain. And it was pretty entertaining and hilarious and imaginative.
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Apr 29, 2017 11:56PM
:) Something is definitely missing.. The kid's excitement , his small brain which was not adulterated yet, is definitely missing..
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Hmmm. You could be right :)
I still have most of the Tintin books. Maybe I should read them again. I also loved the illustrations in this one, and I remembered being mightily impressed that ±á±ð°ù²µÃ© knew the difference between English and Scottish police uniforms. The English police were shown wearing their famous "custodian" helmets whereas the Scottish police were accurately depicted wearing peaked caps. I was impressed that a guy in 1930s Belgium would have picked up that difference.
Interesting comment, Ian.
