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Hamster doin' his best in this big world ([personal profile] crantz) wrote2009-06-14 11:46 am
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Actual comic: Tintin vs White Gangsters


So yeah. I'm supposed to be reading up on how to cause cosmic horror to a bunch of grown women and one man playing teenage girls (Call of Cthulhu game) and instead I'm reading Tintin comics.

So far I've learned that Chicago is full of trapdoors to trap unaware Belgian reporters. Trapdoors: Natural predator? This bears exploring.

Anyway, the trigger of this is I made the mistake of falling asleep after thirty hours awake so in-between dreaming about Grover as done by Chuck Palanhiuk, I dreamt about the Tintin cast doing Twilight.

Let's just say Captain Haddock wasn't having with Edward's treatment of Tintin.

I'll choose some of my favourite childhood Tintin comics to show later.
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melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)

[personal profile] melannen 2009-06-14 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
....a Tintin themed Cthulhu campaign would be *win*.
crantz: The hamster is saying bollocks. It is a scornful hamster (Default)

[personal profile] crantz 2009-06-14 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
...it WOULD.

Except I would be all sad if Tintin went insane and died.
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[personal profile] msilverstar 2009-06-14 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I was quite shocked at the racism in Tin Tin. So our kids read Asterix instead.
crantz: The hamster is saying bollocks. It is a scornful hamster (bollocks! by ann)

[personal profile] crantz 2009-06-14 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
the art of Asterix is why I didn't realize Gollywogs were racist until someone told me.
crantz: Well, it's a person. With a bag on their head. Perhaps they are sad? Perhaps they're just embarassed. It is hard to say (bag onna head by wendleberry)

[personal profile] crantz 2009-06-14 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
That said, I confess I love them both. I know they're imperfect and I can never truly recommend them, but they were a part of my childhood that even tarnished a great deal in places I still enjoy and read.
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[personal profile] gloss 2009-06-14 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you read Sfar's graphic novel The Rabbi's Cat? (It's a talking cat! Travelling with a rabbi! In the 30s! Anyway.) At one point, they encounter Tintin in the Congo. It's *really* interesting.
crantz: Well, it's a person. With a bag on their head. Perhaps they are sad? Perhaps they're just embarassed. It is hard to say (bag onna head by wendleberry)

[personal profile] crantz 2009-06-14 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Never heard, but that sounds keen.
gloss: woman in front of birch tree looking to the right (dykealicious)

[personal profile] gloss 2009-06-14 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
It is! Sample pages.

(The gf just reminded me that the Tintin appearance is in v.2, btw.)
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