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don't get too excited

Oct 11, 2006 20:48

last weekend I had to give myself a mental break for a day or so due to a bout of intensive writing. So in keeping with my current focus of embarassing fangirling I present Herge's Tintin, Snowy and...a sinister badly-drawn shadow with a badly-drawn gun. You can tell he's the bad guy because he has a gun and appears to be bald. And of course ( Read more... )

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pooryorick October 12 2006, 20:16:07 UTC

Hooray for Tintin! One crit, though - the inked outline is nice, but the single inked vine kinda sticks out.

What book combo did you get? And I've got to warn you: the downside with those 3-in-1 editions is that the pages are smaller and everything's compacted, so the art suffers a bit. At least, the ones I've seen were like that. D:

sweet_gardenia October 12 2006, 22:28:31 UTC

hehehe actually it's not ink, just a big ol' black pencil :P yeah I see what you mean. I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do with that background so it was like ugh awwwkward. I think you're right tho. I'll probably go back and fix it. The picture's a bit too small for my tastes.

Everything's tiny? Hm. Maybe I'd be better off getting the singles then. I got The Black Island (scotland and kilts squeek!), King Ottakar's Scepter and the Broken Ear. I saw a reprint copy of Tintin in the land of the Soviets which I am really wanting to get as well. There seems to be woefully small amounts of single copies available in hardcover on BN tho :( granted there are some 1970's editions heh in paperback.

It's exciting when you're first discovering a new series. I haven't been this excited since I started getting into the Terry Pratchett books <-------- geek

(and by the way ZOMG most of the Tintin fan art thumbnails on DeviantArt is ohgollysomekindascary @_@)

pooryorick October 13 2006, 13:05:25 UTC

That's an interesting mix - the first two are fairly early ones, the last is later. Land of the Soviets? Interesting - that's one that I didn't think was available in the US.
Go to Amazon.com. I'm sure you'll find loads more there.

I dare not to look for Tintin fanart or anything like that. It's too near and dear to me to risk such trauma.

sweet_gardenia October 14 2006, 20:12:01 UTC

Yeah and Tintin in the Congo is available as well. Apparently with a foreward explaining things as it seems to be the most controversial of the books.

There were a few...a veeeery few pictures that were decent and respectful that I liked. Other than that...yes. Traumatic X( even in thumbnails