As a child I was glued to the TV set, I was addicted to it. Every Saturday morning, breakfast in the form of Kellog''s Cornflakes was scoffed infront of it. Various shows, cartoons, and programs would flash before me as I chewed bovine like on my cereal. Looking back though, one of the major things that sticks in my mind about Saturday morning viewing was the announcer shouting " Herge''s adventures of
tin Tin, the crab with the golden claws..." Blah blah blah..The introduction would roll on recapping the fantastic exploits of Tin Tin and his dog Snowy, indeed the recap seemed to take up half the entire show-a bit like the lead-in to this article- whatever, the point is years
later I came across the
comic books,
strip cartoons, dialogue and narrative. Herge the creator of Tin Tin was Belgian, and his real name was Georges Remi, he invented the characters as far back as 1929. The actual comic books I found in the bookshop were obviously later editions, but they were still drawn by the author, the text translated from the French. Along with Tin Tin there are various other main characters, admittedly they appear to be clean-cut,
goody-goody types. Villains as usual are portrayed as totally evil. This I suppose is expected of the
hero versus criminal genre in comics of the past. Also Tin Tin is an ordinary mortal, he possesses no super powers, in fact he is a reporter. Unfortunately one criticism was the cartoons used racial stereotyping, but perhaps the reader is the best judge of that, certainly later editions were altered. Otherwise if a harmless ripping yarn is needed they are fun to read.
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