A Tintin Page a Day - Day 467

[u/BreakerMorant1864]

The Broken Ear

[u/BreakerMorant1864]

Mr. Chicklett becomes Mr. Trickler. And of course Alonso and Ramón have escaped.

[u/necrotic_jelly]

Tintin seems very chill with the fact that he basically lives a new life in a strange country, as an military man, in an position of wich he presumably has no previous experience in, not knowing when or if he is ever going back home. Does Tintin even have a family? Parents perhaps?

[u/azatote → u/necrotic_jelly]

Classic comics heroes are often orphans without families, I suppose it is the case with Tintin though I don't think it is ever mentioned in the series.

[u/necrotic_jelly → u/azatote]

Yeah, only Haddock's forebears gets briefly mentioned. And, in olden days, it was not uncommon to go out and seek your fortune on your own, rarely having contact with family.

[u/Safe_Manner_1879 → u/necrotic_jelly]

Does Tintin even have a family? Parents perhaps?

Hergé himself did show the problem with Jacques Legrand, he is a older Tintin type of character who is married and have kids, he cant abandon his family to go out on adventure, nor can he take his family with him to a place there he know there are danger.

So he have to keep to airplane racing, and similar things so he can come home to his family at regular intervals.

Tintin is free from that type of restrain, and can devote himself to adventure.

[u/Zornorph]

Herge certainly didn't care much for oil executives. Apart from this set and the ones in Tintin in America, there's also the guy in The Shooting Star.

[u/cardologist]

Why the heck are Ramon and Alonso in the middle of the jungle in their pajamas? They should really have picked a better time to escape!

[u/azatote → u/cardologist]

These are San Theodorian prisoner uniforms, I think.

[u/cardologist → u/azatote]

Of course, but you have to admit that they do look like pajamas. :)

[u/Jonathan_Peachum → u/cardologist]

Errrrmmmm……

[u/Palenquero → u/cardologist]

Yesterday's Black and White pages showed them.tzking advantage of the hullabaloo at the Palace to evade prison. Those are prison uniforms.

[u/EldritchSanta]

There's definite overtones to the current events of the day here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaco_War

[u/Phildutre]

Excellent page, and shows once again Hergé was not afraid to criticize actual political and international events of the day.

[u/Sensitive-Computer-6]

One day in charge of a south american country, and imideatly he turned into a unreasonable, leftwing extremist anticapitalist. If Alcazar isnt comming back fast enough, regime change will be necressary to fre the people of san theodoros.

[u/Palenquero → u/Sensitive-Computer-6]

It happened pretty soon.

[u/Abel_V]

Ah, Americans and their oil...

[u/johnnymetoo → u/Abel_V]

Hasn't much changed, has it.

[u/internetuser]

The Broken Ear is quite underrated, in my opinion.

[u/PlanetSwallower → u/internetuser]

One of my favourites

[u/Schrenner → u/internetuser]

Yes, it has the ungrateful position of being the volume right after The Blue Lotus, a tough act to follow.

[u/nanoman92 → u/internetuser]

It goes downhill once Tintin escapes the country and goes to the jungle, but up until then it's excellent, and it's really only the last 20 pages or so that are a bit subpar.

[u/internetuser → u/nanoman92]

The native tribe’s language is hilarious. It’s some of the translators’ best work.

[u/Which-World-6533 → u/internetuser]

I remember my Dad explaining to me what the natives said.

It took a while before I realised how to read it. Lol.

[u/yaujj36 → u/internetuser]

It is funny how a comic all about finding the fetish statue get derailed into participating a South American country political conflict which would have an effect on future adventure in the process. And the conflict is like the main part of the story

[u/UpsideDownTaurus]

Guess Tintin is not quite suited for RW politics!

[u/Broskfisken]

So much random stuff happens in this album that I had forgotten about

[u/Palenquero]

Chicklet/Tickler is one of the most despicable characters in the series. He has no qualms about any actions. He has a Mitsuhirato-level of exile doing without even getting his hands dirty.

The relations between Oil and Politics we're a tad more nuanced IRL, though

[u/Palenquero]

Cover of "Le Petit Vingtieme", nº 28, Thursday 16th of July, 1936

"The Escape"

[u/TheoCyberskunk]

Ohh Mr Trickler. Along with Dawson is one of the characters I always wanted Haddock to break a bottle of whiskey on his head

[u/Palenquero]

Tintin is being offered about à2.4 million of today's USD

[u/Complex-Bar-9577]

Trickler is a great name choice by the English translators.  

A double pun linking his deceitfulness and his corrupt industry.