{"id":2793,"date":"2021-08-20T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2793"},"modified":"2024-02-08T08:29:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T08:29:35","slug":"book-review-the-broken-ear-herge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2793","title":{"rendered":"BOOK REViEW: The Broken Ear, Herg\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"511\" height=\"680\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tintin_06_Ear.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2794\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tintin_06_Ear.png 511w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tintin_06_Ear-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Stars_09_FourHalf-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2795\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Stars_09_FourHalf-10.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Stars_09_FourHalf-10-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I love the hapless ill-fated villains in <em>Tintin And The Broken Ear<\/em>, Alonso and Ramon. There&#8217;s also a talking parrot, an amnesiac, and general Alcazar makes what I believe is his first appearance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As usual there&#8217;s some beautiful &#8216;bandes dessin\u00e9es&#8217; artwork from Herg\u00e9, the lushly rendered jungle being very evocative, and he pays his usual attention to detail, basing the &#8216;Arumbaya fetish&#8217; on a real statuette from an ethnographic museum that, I believe, he discovered in his home locality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"565\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_0240.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2920\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_0240.jpg 565w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_0240-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Two key characters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I think this one is perhaps really a four-star only affair. But as it was one of the very first Tintin adventures I acquired, and subsequently one of the first to fall apart from repeated readings, it has a special place in my heart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story is fine, if a bit of the run of the mill type, as Tintin adventures go. But it also belongs to the \u2018first quarter\u2019, one might say, during which the Tintin albums were growing into full maturity. So, despite the fact I did, I wouldn\u2019t advise the Tintin newbie to start here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"570\" height=\"429\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_0241.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2922\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_0241.jpg 570w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/img_0241-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alonso and Ramon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, good solid globe-trotting adventuring fun, and, like all of \u2018em, essential for the true Tintinologist!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the hapless ill-fated villains in Tintin And The Broken Ear, Alonso and Ramon. There&#8217;s also a talking parrot, an amnesiac, and general Alcazar makes what I believe is his first appearance. As usual there&#8217;s some beautiful &#8216;bandes dessin\u00e9es&#8217; artwork from Herg\u00e9, the lushly rendered jungle being very evocative, and he pays his usual &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2793\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BOOK REViEW: The Broken Ear, Herg\u00e9&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-J3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11376,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions\/11376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}