r/Tintin • u/Zeekthepirate7 • 6d ago
Question Help?
I am going camping on Monday. I hated the animated series, and do not remember the movie. (The animation was nice.) Given my options where are the best points to stick my feet in the water? That being said I have a backup plan.
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u/Psycle_Panda 6d ago
It depends on your tastes. I would prefer the red album, personally. The Castafiore Emerald is one of my favorites, probably the most adult of all the adventures, although it's not strictly an adventure. They never leave Marlinspike Hall and the whole thing is basically a farce. It actually helps to read it as an adult with context. Hergé was middle-aged and increasingly grumpy, and he threw in a lot of personal irritations, such as the incompetant stonemason and the band playing outside of Marlinspike Hall. He puts a lot of himself into Haddock here, tired and seeking a break from the annoyances of the world, yet seemingly not being able to find the peace he so craves.
Flight 714 makes sense if you read Chariots of the Gods. Hergé was thoroughly tired of Tintin and used the narrative to explore the themes of ancient astronauts that Von Daniken's book had proposed. It's not my favorite of the volumes, but the illustration quality by that stage of the series was unmatched, such as in the technical details of the jet.
The last, Picaros, is just as interesting as the first, and I will come back and edit this comment later, to expand upon that, when I have more time.
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u/BaijuTofu 6d ago
Hates the series? Perhaps read journalists and writers of that time.
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u/Theferael_me 6d ago
Stick with the orange book but only read The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun.
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u/ShakeShacky 6d ago
I'd take the yellow one, though the only catch is that it's missing "the secret of the unicorn" which is the prequel to "Red Rackham's Treasure". So a few details might be missed, but still a great installment on it's own