The Adventures of Tintin by Herge.

I met Tintin through a cartoon show of the nineties that was broadcast on TV, and where it didn’t show many episodes. A story of searching for a pirate’s treasure was likeable back then. It will far later in the future that I found out that adventures of Belgian journalist are based on comics created by Georges Prosper Remi, who used his initial backwards and published his works under the name Herge. He scripted twenty-four stories about Tintin, which albums were released from 1930 to 1986.

In the issues from the thirties, Herge is a raw and inexperienced author. A protagonist in the first, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (1930), isn’t surprised to an exploded train, though he was supposed to hear a blast if a bomb activated in a parallel coupe. Tintin remains in a misunderstanding and thinks that must leave with his dog Snowy at this station. There comes a German policeman who arrests him, a person who looks as a victim instead of a criminal. A lead hero is only getting accused in a police station in that he exploded the train and made hundreds of its passengers to disappear and just thrown into a prison. Then he simply escapes when a guard opens a cell, and Tintin beats a law enforcer till making him consciousness behind the scenes. I hadn’t great hopes to that writing. Herge rejected that comic book too.

Nevertheless, Tintin in the Congo (1931) didn’t improve and it was steeped in surrealism, which would be reasonable if it was happening akin to Tom & Jerry. Why didn’t Tintin use a mosquito net for Snowy, who was beaten by these insects despite he had it? Why did world rival reporters want to bribe Tintin though he was going on a usual hunt? Extreme situations in which the Belgian reporter gets trapped come from nowhere: he initially has one cartridge in his gun and he was almost killed if not monkeys wouldn’t start to throw coconuts, copying Tintin’s that committed before act. Accident after accident, and the next one can be already after end of the previous. Herge didn’t know about animals’ behavior, as Tintin kills fifteen antelopes at one spot whereas he always believed that he was shooting at the same one. One monkey kidnaps Snowy, and Tintin’s solution was in slaying of other primate to use this animal’s skin as a costume despite its inside isn’t empty in actuality. He meets with a first monkey and exchanges his hat on Snowy, then he takes a headdress from a top of that creature and doesn’t want to give a gun that a beast asks. That ends in grabbing each other, and Tintin knockouts his adversary. Some pages after that, the protagonist drives a car that makes a stuck on rails but a coming train derailed and lies on the ground after colliding with an automobile that stays on the position. I could accept that reading. I moved on many pages forward for see that Snowy compresses lion’s tail with his teeth, which piece tears away when he hits the ground on a way of beast’s running. The lion meets with villagers of Congo who he could attack but the next picture shows he is captured on leash.

Scriptwriting didn’t improve. Herge never make studying of subject or simple things. The first image of Tintin in America (1932) is that a policeman makes a military greet to a gangster with a mask who just robbed a bank by carrying a gun and banknotes. Herge believes, as he shows in in The Broken Ear (1937), that a museum’s guard makes cleaning after working hours, taking an ancient showpiece and uses a dust sweeper.

Herge didn’t know how to trap and save heroes from these danger situations. A Belgian journalist and Snowy are kidnapped in their American adventure by closure of iron shutters in a car, but a luck of exploded tire and having a saw, which is used for making exit on vehicle’s roof saves him though a criminal was near with the automobile and he was supposed to hear and see, but it is already amazing that Tintin’s saw intended for wood could make through a metal.

No inventiveness was in another fast quitted in reading Cigars of the Pharaoh (1934) where Tintin is arrested on a ship and put into a room with a window. He and Snowy jump out from a second floor into a staying boat without moving that wooden vessel and its paddler.

Herge takes a little of maturity in following issues, but doesn’t make any riddance from his all bad. I made glance into nineties’ show seeing it almost follows for original source. My liking it was long time ago. I opened The Secret of the Unicorn (1943), the one that adaptation I watched. Tintin still lives in coincidences. He walks in a flea market and discover an attracting ship model, which he buys but in that exact moment come two men in difference in second want ardently to acquire it. There will reveal an item covers a hidden message. It will accidental luck that Snowy will jump and his movement break a mast and a piece of parchment will fall from there and roll under furniture.

I would desire to sympathize because heroes and adventure conceptions were attracting.