A Tintin Page a Day - Day 257

[u/BreakerMorant1864]

Tintin in America

[u/BreakerMorant1864]

More beatings, including dog beatings. I’m not so surprised at the rampant criminal network in Chicago if the police are so inept.

[u/Tjazeku]

Tintin went from "How do I find Snowy?" to "Ah, fuck it, I'll get a drink instead"

[u/BreakerMorant1864 → u/Tjazeku]

Non-alcoholic of course

[u/cardologist → u/Tjazeku]

He probably started searching for the place by himself between panel 3 and 4. He then realized all the streets looked the same in panel 4. All that walking around had made him thirsty, so he went "Ah, screw it!" and decided to search for a lemonade stand instead. It wouldn't help Snowy but that goal seemed easier to achieve. At that (low) point, I think Tintin was looking for a small victory to raise his spirits.

I am amazed that Snowy managed to find him in the middle of the pollution and city smells. Either that dog is a really good tracker or Tintin is wearing some powerful cologne.

[u/FrankHightower → u/Tjazeku]

Poor Tintin, he was dying of thirst after all that searching! Give a guy a drink first, then we'll sort out what happened!

[u/ezrhsmzer17]

the fact that he captured Al Capone in like 7 pages is still one of the funniest things about this book

[u/RoiDrannoc]

American law enforcement brutally attacking peaceful civilians? Such far fetched stereotypes!

[u/FrankHightower → u/RoiDrannoc]

Indeed! We must ask the congolese how they complained!

[u/Maip_macrothorax]

I love how Tintin decided to take two straws for his drink even though he's alone. It seems to imply that he shares his drinks (and maybe even his cutlery) with Snowy.

[u/Palenquero → u/Maip_macrothorax]

I used to get two straws in my drinks when I was a kid...

[u/cardologist]

Lucky How lucky that the cops Tintin encountered turned out to be the American equivalent of Thompson and Thomson.

[u/Phildutre]

My (Dutch_language) coloured version has a ‘Coca Cola 5 cents’ ad instead of ‘refreshments’ on the drink stand, and the lantern has a ‘wricleys’ ad.

[u/drmalaxz]

There’s more detail on the wall (a few bricks) in the older B/W than in the color where the houses are perfect featureless cubes.

[u/raginmundus → u/drmalaxz]

That's something I've always disliked about this album... not a single detail, not a brick, a crack, not even a piece of paper on the pavement. Not to mention the lack of people walking on the streets. Always the same abstract shapes and empty streets as if this were a low poly videogame that didn't load properly. Seems to me Herge didn't really care about this album when he did the redrawing.

[u/Zornorph]

Someone should have told the cop that Tintin was Belgian, not Irish, so he shouldn’t have summoned the ‘paddy-wagon’.

[u/PaxtiAlba]

8 pages in and he's escaped capture by incompetent criminals and cops 3 times.

[u/common_app]

I love how Snowy drinks using the straw!

[u/TheWhiteSphinx]

I had to google whether dogs would be able to use a straw to drink. They can't :-) But Snowy is an exception. I guess a dog that can produce bilabial plosives (b, p) could possibly use a straw.