This week on Totally Tintin, we travel to the magical country of Syladavia to find King Ottokar’s Sceptre. Let’s join Ian and Dave as they take a look at Hergé’s last pre-war book.
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This week on Totally Tintin, we travel to the magical country of Syladavia to find King Ottokar’s Sceptre. Let’s join Ian and Dave as they take a look at Hergé’s last pre-war book.
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Hi guys! I’ve been greatly enjoying the show. This week you were wondering what the guy with the hookah-looking thing was doing, and I remembered seeing the explanation in Michael Farr’s Tintin: the Complete Companion. He’s based on a drawing of a “Macedonian lemonade seller” in Herge’s files. I uploaded a snapshot of the page here: http://i.imgur.com/h6G1lqx.jpg
[I have taken the liberty of adding Les’ picture directly to his comment so everyone could see it. – David]
Ah! (It’s funny Herge decided to keep the guy’s little beard, too.)
I wondered what the point of the Danger- High Voltage door was until you pointed it out in the podcast. I’m racing through the comics so I can catch up with you guys. Feel free to slow down a bit.
Enjoying the podcasts.
I like this album.
Does Bianca know any other songs?
The Chaco War was between Paraguay and Bolivia over natural resuorses that it turned out weren’t there.
Was Tintin widely read at this time outside Belgium?
I don’t think they were really serving dog at the restaurant, I think he was yanking Tintin’s chain.
I see it as Tintin speaking English everywhere he goes. I think it’s very much a kid thing to believe that any country you go to, everyone speaks English (or whatever your native language is) to some degree.
In the documentary ‘Tintin and I’, Herge relates how he was visited by a German official who commented on the fact that the planes were Messerschmitts with the warning “Don’t do that again.”
When Tintin gets his window fixed and then immediately there was a rock thown through it, I imagined the man who throw the rock, saw the man fixing the window purposefully waited until the window was fixed and the repairman left before throwing the rock. Just to annoy Tintin that much more.
Loving the podcast, my favorite part is when Ian brings up his theory that Tintin can do anything a kid thinks he can do. So I’m thinking Tintin is fluent in lots of languages like James Bond. Seems just as logical as anything else in these books.
Maybe the little mouse window is where they deliver the coal…?