The Adventures Of Tintin Volume 2
This second volume collects three of Hergé's most beloved Tintin stories, and it's a genuinely impressive package. You get smugglers, poison, stolen artefacts, and a talking parrot. Not bad for a boy reporter and his wire fox terrier. In Cigars of the Pharaoh, Tintin chases a missing Egyptologist across Egypt and India, befriending elephants along the way and narrowly avoiding a rather nasty madness-inducing poison. The Blue Lotus picks up directly where that story leaves off, pulling Tintin into the shadowy world of Shanghai's opium trade. It's widely considered one of Hergé's most politically sharp adventures, and rightly so. Then The Broken Ear sends him deep into the South American rainforest in pursuit of a stolen tribal fetish, with a cast of double-crossing villains and one very useful parrot. What makes these stories hold up so well is the balance Hergé strikes between accessibility and genuine substance. The plots are tight, the humour lands, and the artwork remains as clean and expressive as ever. Children will race through them; adults will notice the layers. Still shifting over 100,000 copies annually in the UK, and having inspired the 2011 Spielberg and Jackson film adaptation, the series shows no sign of fading. With around 230 million copies sold worldwide since publication began, it's fair to say Tintin has earned his place on the shelf, and this volume is a fine reminder of exactly why.
- Author: Hergé
- Publisher: Farshore
- Genre: Design & Fashion
- ISBN: 978-1405282765
- Pages: 192 pages