The Adventures Of Tintin Volume 6
This sixth volume brings together three of Hergé's most celebrated Tintin stories, and it's a genuinely impressive package. You get two connected tales plus a standalone thriller, all showcasing the young reporter at the height of his powers. In Destination Moon, Tintin and the irrepressible Captain Haddock discover that the absent-minded Professor Calculus has been quietly working on something extraordinary at a top-secret atomic research facility in Syldavia. Space travel, it turns out, is very much on the agenda. The follow-up, Explorers on the Moon, picks up immediately where that story leaves off, piling the whole familiar cast into a rocket and watching gleefully as everything unravels. Snowy, the Thompson twins, Haddock's fondness for whisky: all present, all causing chaos at altitude. The Calculus Affair shifts gear entirely. Glass is shattering across Brussels for no apparent reason, a professor goes missing, and a solitary packet of cigarettes is the only lead Tintin has to work with. It's taut, political, and surprisingly gripping for a comic aimed at younger readers. Hergé's ligne claire artwork remains a genuine pleasure, precise without feeling cold, and the storytelling moves at a pace that puts many modern thrillers to shame. With over 230 million copies sold worldwide and consistent UK sales of 100,000 copies annually, these albums have clearly found something universal. The 2011 Spielberg and Jackson film brought a new generation to the series, but the books themselves need no such introduction. They stand perfectly well on their own.
- Author: Hergé
- Publisher: Farshore
- Genre: Design & Fashion
- ISBN: 978-1405282802
- Pages: 192 pages