This week on Totally Tintin, Ian Boothby and Dave Dedrick from Sneaky Dragon take an admiring look at Hergé’s fourth adventure of Tintin, The Cigars of the Pharaoh.
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This week on Totally Tintin, Ian Boothby and Dave Dedrick from Sneaky Dragon take an admiring look at Hergé’s fourth adventure of Tintin, The Cigars of the Pharaoh.
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I’m half-way though this one and needed to put the book away and get ready for work, damnit. Also need to get in some darjeeling tea.
Really enjoying the series so far; it’s prompting me to look closer at the books than I ever have before. I wondered why Tintin didn’t just jump out of the porthole and swim, also why was the fisherman fishing between a large ship and the wharf? That doesn’t seem right.
Another thing that has puzzled me for years: how much fuel does that plane hold? From Arabia to India seems like a long way to fly by accident. And then to crash practically on top of the professor and the bad guys lair… Hergé was getting better, but still stretching credibility in some places!
Looking forward to listening to the rest tonight. Thanks guys!
The last Tintin is in fact the unfinished “Tintin and the Alpha-art”, I trust you’ll be covering that? Once you are done with the Tintin albums perhaps you should review the influence of Herge on succeeding cartoonists like Swarte, Chaland, Clerc and others. I believe the planes that chase Tintin are Hawker Hinds, British biplane bombers first built in 1937. Between World War one and two many planes were still made with two wings, biplanes were still seen in front line service in WW2. The diagram on page 26 does look like a hand grenade, in particular the French “pear” grenade of 1915.
I remember reading this one for the first time and being really turned off by the whole “talking to elephants” nonsense… somehow this above anything else was just too much for me to swallow.
Find it interesting that they changed some of the drawings.
I have a book called the adventures of Tintin volume 1 published by Egmont in 2003 and the map used in Cigars of the Pharaoh is of the Mediterranean. In the album version also published by Egmont this time in 2012 the map is of the Middle East, India and China.
Ceylan: Sri Lanka
Descendre quelqu’un: to shoot someone. I think it’s gangsters’ slang
Coco: a person (familiar)
Yes! Coconuts in India
Ha! Good to know!
I’ve been listening to your Tintin retrospective and I’m loving it however as a Muslim myself, I feel the need to mention that Islam’s views on dogs is a bit more complicated, there are muslims who do keep them as pets and there are hadith and fatwas that say they should be treated with kindness. While there are Islamic jurists that use the unclean argument, there are other jurists like from the Sunni side who disagree with this.
https://www.animalsinislam.com/islam-animal-rights/dogs/
https://qz.com/india/1038116/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_Islam#Views_regarding_particular_animals
Thanks for clarifying, Badr! I must admit I was basing my statement on the members of a mosque that was next door to my friend’s house, but I don’t know if they were Sunni or Shiite or what.
My bad for lumping everyone together.
I have started reading Tintin to my children (4 and 8).
This is their second book (we started with Black Island) and I was a bit worried about the scene with the mummified Egyptologists, in case it was too creepy.
When we reach the page, they laughed uproariously and said “look at the 9 granddads in toilet paper”. It is their second favourite scene after Snowy and the goat in Black Island.
I did have to explain what an Egyptologist is, though.