{"id":2872,"date":"2021-08-28T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2024-02-08T08:37:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T08:37:13","slug":"book-review-tintin-the-picaros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2872","title":{"rendered":"BOOK REViEW: Tintin &amp; the Picaros"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"510\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tintin_23_Picaros.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3085\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tintin_23_Picaros.png 510w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Tintin_23_Picaros-224x300.png 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/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-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2873\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Stars_10_Five-23.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Stars_10_Five-23-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The last Tintin adventure that Herg\u00e9 saw through to completion, <em>Tintin And The Picaros<\/em> has divided opinion among fans and critics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the author of <em>Tintin: Herg\u00e9 And His Creation<\/em> notes, somewhat disdainfully, Herg\u00e9 appears to make some concessions to the times. Our plucky hero loses his plus-fours, does yoga, and has the CND anti-nuclear logo on his scooter crash-helmet! Prior to this Tintin and co. seemed to inhabit a permanent time warp located somewhere between the 1930s and the 1950s.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, I for one still enjoy this Tintin adventure, despite agreeing that these concessions to modernity weren&#8217;t needed. It&#8217;s also not the best most engaging Tintin story either, although it is, both visually and narratively undoubtedly a &#8216;mature&#8217; work. But nonetheless, it has all the major qualities: a fun globetrotting adventure, with intrigue, treachery, nobility and comedy all mixed in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Considering some of the political ups and downs Herg\u00e9 lived through, his final comment seems apt: the book starts with one form of tyranny &#8211; the neo-fascist regime of General Tapioca &#8211; and ends with General Alcazar&#8217;s socialist regime. Both add up to the same thing: the slums policed by disinterested armed cronies of either regime.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By this time Herg\u00e9 was fed up with Tintin and politics, but true pro that he was, he managed to turn in a decent solidly enjoyable final instalment in the long-running saga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last Tintin adventure that Herg\u00e9 saw through to completion, Tintin And The Picaros has divided opinion among fans and critics.&nbsp; As the author of Tintin: Herg\u00e9 And His Creation notes, somewhat disdainfully, Herg\u00e9 appears to make some concessions to the times. Our plucky hero loses his plus-fours, does yoga, and has the CND anti-nuclear &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=2872\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BOOK REViEW: Tintin &amp; the Picaros&#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-Kk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872"}],"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=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11405,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions\/11405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}