{"id":2807,"date":"2021-08-22T11:39:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T11:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2807"},"modified":"2024-02-08T08:30:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T08:30:43","slug":"book-review-the-crab-with-the-golden-claws-herge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2807","title":{"rendered":"BOOK REViEW: The Crab with the golden Claws, Herg\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"511\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tintin_09_Crab.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2808\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tintin_09_Crab.png 511w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tintin_09_Crab-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-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2810\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Stars_09_FourHalf-11.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Stars_09_FourHalf-11-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this thoroughly enjoyable adventure an empty tin of crab meat sets Tintin off on adventure that lands him in North Africa.&nbsp;&#8216;Shanghai&#8217;d&#8217; at the docks, it&#8217;s whilst on board the freighter &#8216;Karaboudjan&#8217; that he meets the drunken sot that is Captain Haddock, and his dastardly first mate, Allan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The doppelg\u00e4nger detectives are on hand to clown around, but it&#8217;s Captain Haddock, making his debut, who steals the show, his clumsy drunken <em>faux pas<\/em> causing Tintin as much trouble as the opium-running villains. I dock half a star here, because as much as Haddock is an excellent new addition, he isn&#8217;t yet fully formed, and will mature and improve in coming adventures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to see how Herg\u00e9 introduces and develops new characters: Allan arrives on the scene fully formed (but then he&#8217;s a relatively minor figure), acting and appearing much the same in other stories in which he appears (e.g. Flight 714), whereas the Capt. Haddock of this adventure isn&#8217;t quite the Haddock of most other Tintin stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With some nice full page single frame art, and an enjoyable plot, this is solid, reliable fun from Herg\u00e9.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this thoroughly enjoyable adventure an empty tin of crab meat sets Tintin off on adventure that lands him in North Africa.&nbsp;&#8216;Shanghai&#8217;d&#8217; at the docks, it&#8217;s whilst on board the freighter &#8216;Karaboudjan&#8217; that he meets the drunken sot that is Captain Haddock, and his dastardly first mate, Allan.&nbsp; The doppelg\u00e4nger detectives are on hand to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2807\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BOOK REViEW: The Crab with the golden Claws, 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-Jh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807"}],"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=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11380,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions\/11380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}