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Tintin was one of the comic book heroes of my childhood. I'm going to read my way through the series again as I listen to a radio program about him, and his creator, ±á±ð°ù²µÃ©. The tenth book is The Shooting Star, where Tintin notices a star in the sky that he doesn’t know. Obviously he goes to try to find out what is happening, and is told that the a meteor is about to hit the earth which will cause the end of life as we know it. This does not happen, but a fraction of the meteor lands on earth with a new, unknown metal. Tintin, Captain Haddock and a group of scientists are on the case, but so are others as well.

In a way this book should be among my favorite Tintin adventures, after all this is the book where Tintin, Snowy, and Captain Haddock come to Iceland. In fact, they come to Akureyri which is very close to where I used to live, but even so I can’t say I like this one very much. Mostly I just find it a little too silly. The science is a bit too far fetched for my taste, and it needs a little bit more humor to be honest, though some of it can be quite funny.

Germany was still occupying Belgium at the time, so perhaps that had its affect on the tone of the book. There is at least one thing that is certain, the author that was trying to write against racism in The Blue Lotus, is resorting to a bit of anti semitism in this volume, and I am reading the redrawn version where some of it had been written out again.

The adventure is okay, silly yes, but okay. I think the best thing I can say about this book is that Captain Haddock that first appeared in the previous volume, is in better form in this one. But for most parts I think this book falls into the middle of the road, neither one among the best, nor among the worst. Just an barely okay forgettable adventure romp.