{"id":2868,"date":"2021-08-27T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2024-02-08T08:37:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T08:37:02","slug":"book-review-flight-714-herge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2868","title":{"rendered":"BOOK REViEW: Flight 714, Herg\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"512\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tintin_22_Flight714.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3083\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tintin_22_Flight714.png 512w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tintin_22_Flight714-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/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_10_Five-22.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2869\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Stars_10_Five-22.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Stars_10_Five-22-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When Tintin, Cuthbert and Haddock (and Snowy, of course), en-route to an astronautical conference in Australia, bump into Skut (of the&nbsp;<em>Red Sea Sharks<\/em>&nbsp;fame) in Jakarta airport, they end up joining the party of Laszlo Carreidas, the &#8220;millionaire who never laughs&#8221;, a great if rather unattractive character (apparently Herg\u00e9 based his character on Marcel Dassault, a real French aviation tycoon), they find themselves embroiled in another of their exotic adventures. Cuthbert&#8217;s antics at the airport are priceless, rather quickly causing Carreidas&#8217; soubriquet to seem somewhat unwarranted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Set mostly on a small volcanic Australasian island, with underground remnants of a strangely South American sort, this is one of the most beautifully realised Tintin adventures. Plot-wise it&#8217;s jammed full of incident, comedy, and good characterisation. Oh, and it gets pretty nutso too, but I won&#8217;t spoil it for you. Rastapopolous and Allan re-appear, there are new characters worth encountering, like Dr Krollspell and Rastapopolous&#8217; other henchmen, as well as the mysterious Mik Kanrokitoff. But it&#8217;s the visual aspect of the book that is the best single feature&#8230; it&#8217;s a real beauty!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After this there was a hiatus, then&nbsp;<em>Tintin and the Picaros<\/em>, and that was it (I don&#8217;t count&nbsp;<em>Alph-Art<\/em>, as it wasn&#8217;t finished). It shows that, overall, Herg\u00e9 and his team continually got better over time. A classic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Tintin, Cuthbert and Haddock (and Snowy, of course), en-route to an astronautical conference in Australia, bump into Skut (of the&nbsp;Red Sea Sharks&nbsp;fame) in Jakarta airport, they end up joining the party of Laszlo Carreidas, the &#8220;millionaire who never laughs&#8221;, a great if rather unattractive character (apparently Herg\u00e9 based his character on Marcel Dassault, a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2868\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BOOK REViEW: Flight 714, 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-Kg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868"}],"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=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11404,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions\/11404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}