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Summary: the Funniest!! :)
Review: in my opinion among the Funniest Tintins, are these three. Captain Haddock is in inimitable style, and Prof. Cuthbert Calculus, is as deeply unfathomable as his subjects! :) Funny, and Fun if you enjoy the adventures of Tintin and Snowy you'll not stop grinning with these three! awesomely illustrated and penned..really nice.
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Summary: Why's Tintin so unique in the world of comic books ?
Review: Of course we've all grown up with so many fiction characters from DC/Marvel comics, Disney, Archie's`etc., each of them with its own appeal and flavour ...What sets Tintin apart from all the rest, I feel, the brilliant quality of the artwork. The level of detail, right from the wheels of flight 714 about to land on that tiny island (flight 714), to the shadow effects of walking in a hidden passage to the Inca empire (prisoners of the sun), to the shape of the waves on which Tintin in a coffin is floating (cigars of the pharaoh), or the jaguar in which Tintin chases the gangsters (the calculus affair), the details are just fantastic and the right amount, without creating too much noise and distraction - as is the case with many of the DC comics - iron man, the incredible hulk, etc. The stories range from contemporary to looking ahead in the future - swing wing planes, rockets to the moon, hidden cameras/espionage. The subject matter is political, and in my opinion slightly controversial at times. Especially the way Herge stereotypes native people in India (Cigars of the Pharaoh, Tintin in Tibet), or in the jungles of Amazon (The Broken Ear). But even here, Herge is way above the shady and simplistic plots of the like of Phantom and Flash Gordon. The collection is more readable towards the later comics, some of the earlier ones contains situations which are too improbable and rely far too much on luck for Tintin to get himself out of danger.
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Summary: VERY HARD TO READ
Review: The print was very small and not black...I think it was light red, maybe? My son is 9 and he wouldn't even try to read it. He found the type so confusing that I returned the book. I see that alot of kids liked the book but they seem older than my son. Consider the age of your child and the size of the print that your child usually reads from before buying this book. The type size is very small...very close together...and light in color. It was confusing to my child.
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Summary: VERY HARD TO READ
Review: The print was very small and not black...I think it was light red, maybe? My son is 9 and he wouldn't even try to read it. He found the type so confusing that I returned the book. I see that alot of kids liked the book but they seem older than my son. Consider the age of your child and the size of the print that your child usually reads from before buying this book. The type size is very small...very close together...and light in color. It was confusing to my child.
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Summary: I am not a Stranger here!
Review: Tintin has lived within me for a long while now, in my fond memories of childhood it has a special place. I can remember days spent under an apple tree reading longingly from the black and white pages of my trade paperback edition of Tintin classics like Red Rackham's Treasure, Cigars of the Pharaoh and the Seven Crystal Balls, which is my favorite Tintin adventure, bar none. In the community of Tintin afficionados, i know it is a large community, nobody I think would be more full of joy returning to Tintin again after so many years in exile. These editions of Tintin give me a great pleasure not only because I am a Tintin-afficionado, or TA, but also because of their compact size and comprehensive format. I read them sometimes on the subway, at school, at work and home, savoring every reality-infused slide of creation, delighting in the allure of those places like the deserts of Africa, wild jungles of the South Seas, Latin America and France that come out of every Tintin page. And why not? Intricacy of its creation comes from a mind as complex as Borges and nearly as adventurous as the blind sage. Herge is a universal mind: he is one of few artists who could blend a penchant for fun and adventure with complex characterization and some very cherished stereotypes--Haddock, Professor Monocle and many more which made these stories worthwhile. His main character, Tintin, almost pales against these characters but Tintin will endure because he is the centerpiece of all the action, all the adventure, all the utopian fantasy of various characters that revolves in a web to encompass our entire world.
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Summary: Three Tintin adventures together
Review: Tintin is the best comic ever and here you have three of his adventures together:
Red Rackham's Treasure - In the previous volume Tintin and Captain Haddock put together a 200 year old mystery left by Haddock's ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock. Now they are off to recover Red Rackham's Treasure. But Max Bird, the antiques dealer turned criminal, has escaped from prison. Will he make an appearance?
The Seven Crystal Balls - Tintin and Captain Haddock go to a psychic show. There an Indian fakir puts his assistant into a trance. She forsees a mysterious illness striking a photographer on a recent expedition to recover Incan artifacts. One by one the researchers on the expedition fall into mysterious comas. Near each lies a shattered crystal ball...
Prisoners of the Sun - The previous installment of this story, The Seven Crystal Balls, left Tintin ad Captain Haddock in pursuit of kidnappers on a ship bound for Peru. In Peru Tintin catches a brief glimpse of the professor but is unable to rescue him. He and the captain continue the investigation. Local Indians are uncooperative, until Tintin rescues a local boy and finds sympathetic people who point him toward an Incan curse...
These are all good stories and have jokes for adults as well as children. Additionally The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun constitute a single longer story and have to be read together to know what is going on in each. So if you buy one then you will want to buy the other with it anyway. Be aware that these are printed on smaller size paper than the separately bound stories, which is more economical but makes them harder to read and doesn't do the graphics justice. This is an economic edition for families, but invest in the larger separately bound stories if possible.
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Summary: Watch out - Small Size
Review: Watch out, this 3-in-one comes in a smaller size than the regular single adventures. Makes it harder to read and harder to enjoy the graphics.
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Summary: Watch out - Small Size
Review: Watch out, this 3-in-one comes in a smaller size than the regular single adventures. Makes it harder to read and harder to enjoy the graphics.
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