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I started thinking about Tintin this week and, being the enthusiastic born-again Astro fan I am, I couldn't help but notice the many similarities between my favorite childhood TV hero and my favorite comic strip hero! Obviously they both fight for justice, but they share a lot more.

• 1. Age: while Tintin is not a child, he is obviously young and kind of ageless. This characteristic makes it easy for a child to identify himself to both of them.
  
• 2. Gender: both are obviously males, but gender isn't a very important characteristic in any of them. Again, as a female, I never felt they were that different from myself, which made it easier for me to relate to them.
  
• 3. Purity: neither seem to have many shortcomings, if any. They both wouldn't want to kill anybody, as bad as they might be, even expressing sadness when a bad character dies.
  
• 4. Daddy Walrus - Capitaine Haddock/Captain Haddock/Kapitän Haddock: both are hot-tempered characters, which compensate for the perfection of the hero. Also, both like to drink!
  
• 5. Police: neither the Dupond/Dupont - Thomson/Thompson - Schultze/Schulze, nor Inspector Gumshoe seem to be able to solve anything without the hero's help (obviously, I realize that if they were, our main character would be jobless! ). But in both cases, policemen even get in the way of our heroes or even distrust them at times.
  
• 6. Science: plays a major role in both.

Tintin as a comic is older than Astro. I don't know if Tezuka was aware of Hergé's work, but I don't have the feeling that he needed to read Hergé to create his own world. In the end, obviously, both authors found some kind of universal recipe that attracted so many fans.

Allow me some screenshots to illustrate
Dupond and Dupont:



Dupond and Dupont just after interfering with Tintin's business. Understand: interfer==arrest


Captain Haddock:

I don't really care about the TV version, but I remember laughing at that page when I read it the first time!

Sacrés Dupondt!

Originally posted by Astro forever@Jun 16 2005, 06:21 PM
I don't really care about the TV version, but I remember laughing at that page when I read it the first time!

I don't really care either, but it is easier to take a screenshot from a video than taking a book and scan it, especially since my scanner uses a super-obsolete ISA port that doesn't exist on recent computers: it forces me to switch on another computer whenever I want to scan something :wacko:

Originally posted by fafner+Jun 16 2005, 12:39 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (fafner @ Jun 16 2005, 12:39 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--Astro forever@Jun 16 2005, 06:21 PM
I don't really care about the TV version, but I remember laughing at that page when I read it the first time!

I don't really care either, but it is easier to take a screenshot from a video than taking a book and scan it, especially since my scanner uses a super-obsolete ISA port that doesn't exist on recent computers: it forces me to switch on another computer whenever I want to scan something :wacko: [/b][/quote]
I agree! Actually I wanted to illustrate my first post yesterday, but I didn't feel like finding the box where the books are stored, scan them.... My scanner is alright but I don't use it often and I keep forgetting how to use the software!

Among others, I wanted to make side-by-side pics of Daddy Walrus and Haddock drinking!