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It's a toughie, but I think I'll go with 'Tintin in Tibet.' There's something wonderfully pure about it, and it's the most touching of the Tintin albums. Plus, it has some great Haddock moments (bawling out the yeti for stealing his whiskey springs to mind).

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 19 August 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"Explorers On The Moon". I love the brilliant ending, where they're all passing out from lack of oxygen and Tintin has to pilot the rocket back to Earth... and the sacrifice of Wolffe is quite haunting. I liked this book so much as a kid that I once took it into church and read it during mass. I caused a minor scandal.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the moon books. I reckon 'Destination' may be the funniest Tintin book (that brilliant slapstick scene where Haddock gets hit by the same door like five times) and 'Explorers' is certainly one of the most exciting.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

God, this is REALLY tough.

I'm almost tempted to go for the Castafiore Emerald because it's such a formal tour de force and the character work is so good. But it's also so atypical that it feels a copout to say "best Tintin book" of it.

So instead I'm going to channel my seven year old self and say THE SHOOTING STAR. Why?

- nautical high drama!
- boodle boodle boodle!
- GIANT SPIDER PICTURE
- bizarre floating bricks section
- frightening sinking island
- SEAPLANES, they only appear in Tintin books as far as I'm concerned
- exploding mushrooms!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 19 August 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Good choice, Tico.

― Wooden (Wooden), Thursday, 19 August 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd like to reread The Castafiore Emerald. i can barely remember The Shooting Star either.

I'll pick Explorers On The Moon anyway.

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Sunday, 22 August 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Tintin in Tibet: it's all about one-ness.

― sexyDancer, Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Calculus Affair... almost Hitchcockian.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Sunday, 22 August 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got a soft spot for Red Rackham's Treasure -- great plot twists and (I'm going off memory here) one of the funnier Milou/Snowy-getting-drunk slapstick routines.

― ng, Monday, 23 August 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

For their content, a very difficult decsision with so many choices: Seven Crystal Balls was a terrific mystery building to a vastly superior Hammer horror. Secret of the Unicorn and Explorers on the moon are also great.

But my favourite is easy: Tintin in America. It was the first I read, a present from my father.

― Alter Mangus (Total Magnus), Sunday, 28 November 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

first i got: black island (why does tt need the CROSS THE SEA to get to england?)*
favourite when young: calculus affair (politics and disguises)**

favourite now: probably CIGARS OF THE PHARAOH

it just has a general daftness and where-next invention which appeals to me

*(black island also has a sustained drunken snowy section)
**("ach gentlemen, i sense yr bitter disappointment" - ie he is talking to the bordurian military and the sonic device has not destroyed a REAL city!!)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 29 November 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Tintin had to cross the sea to get from Belgium to England.

David

― David Simpson (David Simpson), Monday, 29 November 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

My favourites(s) is/are the Moon two-parter, especially the thick hardback compilation containing both parts plus lots of background information, as seen here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0416027326/qid%3D1101734965/026-0421290-6350051.

Er, not that it's worth such a ridiculous price or anything.

David

― David Simpson (David Simpson), Monday, 29 November 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

yes i know that now david

when i wz six i did not know he wz belgian

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 29 November 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

pr indeed that anyone was

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 29 November 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

When you're 6 the shock horror twist in King Ottakar's Sceptre (OMG WTF THEY WERE TWINS) is amazing. Slightly less so now. It remains my favourite, though. There are some devastingly beautiful panels of storytelling (Tintin in the plane over Syldavia stands out; the lighting is stunning- you feel the loneliness of the cockpit at night) and I still love the plot which must have been hackneyed even then.

― Richard Jones (scarne), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.remick.net/tintin/Covers.JPG/crystal.JPG

― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

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