Spooky mummies! A mysterious sickness? Pesky glass fragments all over the floor! It’s The Seven Crystal Balls. Join Ian and Dave for an intense and extensive look at Hergé’s longest story!
(Seriously, clean up that glass, it’s a hazard.)
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I’m only about halfway through the episode right now, but I thought you fellows might be interested in this, which came out in the last year or so: http://www.amazon.com/aventures-Tintin-malediction-Rascar-Capac/dp/2203087773
It’s a reprint of the original comics making up the 7 Crystal Balls as they ran in Le Soir, and there’s a second volume that reprints the Journal de Tintin strips for Prisoners of the Sun, as well. Both volumes have a tremendous amount of historical context and pictures that Hergé used for reference. French only, but I’m enjoying my copies.
Thanks, Les!
As I’ve been researching Prisoners of the Sun, I’ve been wondering if there was a complete collection that reinstated the original Tintin magazine strips and now I know!
When I’m in the money, I’ll seriously have to think about getting these.
Excellent context, I love context like Ian loves Tintin running while putting on his coat, like Dave loves Herge’s water!
Have you read the Herge biocomic, The Adventures of Herge by Stanislas Barthélémy, Jose-Louis Bocquet, Jean-Luc Fromental? In the comic when Belgium is liberated (thanks in part to the Canadian Army) and Herge is arrested he seems to treat the whole thing not at all seriously, like it’s a silly prank. Either that or Herge is completely indifferent to whether or not he is shot. Quite bizarre.
Is this the point, after all the pain of the war and postwar period, that Herge himself stopped identifying with the “good scout” Tintin but rather the “reluctant adventurer” Captain Haddock?
Incidentially, the last years of WW2 in Italy were quite chaotic. After Mussolini’s arrest the Italian army fractured, Fascist loyalists fought on beside the Germans while the royal Italian army rallied to the cause of the allies! There was also a fierce guerilla war behind German lines with partisans of many political strips, communists, Catholics, Royalists, Socialists… post war Italian cinema would reflect what became a civil/revolutionary war.
Johnnie Dollar- the man with the action-packed expense account
(That’s how I remember it)
Yours truly…
Colin Upton
That’s it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO1jUlF9IVU
Ah, I’ve finally caught up to the current Totally Tintin episodes. I’ve always loved Tintin since I was a kid, but listening to these have really reinvigorated my enthusiasm for the series!
By the way, David have you read the Jo, Zette, and Jocko book The Secret Ray? I was surprised to learn of its existence only a few years ago and managed to get my paws on an English translation, but must have lucked out since it seems near impossible to find now (Amazon.com currently has a copy listed at a ludicrous $2,904 USD. I got mine for a much more reasonable $19.95).
The Secret Ray, that’s the 2 parter in one volume? Not to brag but I have that and Mr. Pumps Legacy, Destination New York and The Valley of the Cobras – all Jo, Zette and Jocko. They’re not bad. I also have 2 Quick & Flupke (Double trouble & Two of a kind) and even “Popol out west”, a children’s strip Herge did in 1934. All in English translation . I was wondering if the lads would be covering the non-Tintin Herge?
Yeah, The Secret Ray is a two parter. It’s been a while since I read it, but I’m not quite sure why it wasn’t reprinted nor officially listed with the other Jo, Zette, and Jocko books on the back of the Tintin albums. I also have two Quick & Flupke books (Fasten Your Seat Belts & Under Full Sail).
A couple years ago, Fantagraphics announced they were going to be reprinting Popol Out West as “Peppy and Virginny in Lapinoland”, though it was never actually released. For what it’s worth, Amazon.ca does have a Jan. 12, 2016 release date so maybe it just got majorly delayed.
I never liked the cover when I was a kid and I’m not sure I ever read it, because reading it this week was surprising – it’s great! And another great episode. I’m going to leave you a 5-star review, but it’ll have to be in the Swiss iTunes store so it’s probably worthless.
– The lady in the audience is total eye candy
– When I saw the South American with the knife I thought it was the one who always missed
– I stared at the Snowy/hosepipe panel for ages and concluded that Snowy was holding it in his mouth thinking it was a bone. But I guess it’s just supposed to be behind him?
– ‘A few hours later Professor Sanders was found in a coma in his bedroom’
On a side note about Tintin, he looks much younger in person. http://tinyurl.com/qaelbb4