Tintin in the congo ???

The Buddha · July 25, 2007, 07:34:41 PM

Anyone heard of it

I have read everyone there is ... or so I thought.
I also have read every Asterix or so I think.
Cool.
Srinath.

pandy · July 25, 2007, 09:17:22 PM

I'd never heard of it before you mentioned it and I Googled it, but...WOW!!....Srinath posted in O&E!!!!!

sanjay · July 25, 2007, 09:35:05 PM

Did you read the soviets one? I haven't read the soviets or congo ones (the very first two) or the alphart one (published posthumously).

The Buddha · July 25, 2007, 09:46:51 PM

Well ... never even heard of the soviet one.
What is it ... Tintin in russia

IMHO, the best is Tintin in america.
I cant wait to find these 2.
I liked the blue lotus, broken ear many more.
"The elephant of Gajapajama" is pretty much household name around my house.
Asterix and the goths, asterix in switzerland ... many more, insane. This is why I am not some freaking research scientist in some hell hole mutant lab somewhere.

Cool.
Srinath.

yamahonkawazuki · July 25, 2007, 10:11:53 PM

wtf are you talking about?

ben2go · July 25, 2007, 10:13:55 PM

Quote from: yamahonkawazuki on July 25, 2007, 10:11:53 PM
wtf are you talking about?

I 2nd that.Have ya'll gone

Please,fill us laymens in.

yamahonkawazuki · July 25, 2007, 10:23:12 PM

what he said

yamahonkawazuki · July 26, 2007, 12:04:10 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_the_Congo

The Buddha · July 26, 2007, 12:12:50 AM

See, I knew there was some good in you Yamahon.
This is old tintin, pre Haddock. I somehow thought it was after the Blue Lotus.
So now I know, why "Chicago 1932, when gangster bosses ruled the city" came to be.
Anyway I heard of this mid July 2007 incident (isn't it still mid july 2007) on the radio and realised I have never seen the book.
Cigars of the pharoh is the first with the thompsons. Thompson is the first with the cigars ... Precisely ...

Now to find this and the soviets.
Cool.
Srinath.

sanjay · July 26, 2007, 01:27:06 AM

With a p, as in psychology!

Ten thousand thundering typhoons!

For all you people who aren't Srinath, it's a series of Belgian comic books by Herge. Very old (1930s-1960s) but still great to read.

So evidently the old ones were suppressed because they were not PC? Hmm, I have to find them as well. Still haven't read all the Asterix books, but pretty damn close.

nastynate6695 · July 26, 2007, 11:48:12 AM

thanks for clearing that up

The Buddha · July 26, 2007, 01:29:17 PM

Asterix is the real laugh riot. Tintin is more of a political mellow comic novel. Some books may not be funny at all, some bay be insanely so, some may be a little monotonously funny (Castafiore Emerald IMHO) ... its funny because of how tedious it is and how she bugs Haddock.
Asterix ... all of them notoriously funny with some sort of referential integrity for cartoons. If one group has 30 people, and another group has 10 and they get a fight started, the fight page will be a full page and every one from every clan will be represented in that fight. Its fully documented with, 3rd normal form in database parlance.
Cool.
Srinath.

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