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Post by Confessor on Jul 6, 2017 19:58:17 GMT -5
I have never read a Tin Tin story. Ever. That doesn't surprise me too much, since I don't believe that Tintin (it's one word, dontcha know ) is all that well known in America. At least, certainly not as well know as the series is in Europe and Britain. Of course, the semi-recent Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson cgi animated movie has no doubt raised the character's profile considerably in the States, but I bet the majority of American comic fans haven't read any of the books. Anyway, you should check at least one of the books out. It's a rather wonderful series. You can see samples of it in my review thread, of course, and I know that the likes of Roquefort Raider and rossn would vouch for its excellence. But you should get @mechagodzilla's opinion on the series too. He's a recent convert to the wonder of Hergé and the Adventures of Tintin.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 6, 2017 20:09:43 GMT -5
If it's in Comixology, I can read it there.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2017 20:10:48 GMT -5
I have never read a Tin Tin story. Ever. That doesn't surprise me too much, since I don't believe that Tintin (it's one word, dontcha know ) is all that well known in America. At least, certainly not as well know as the series is in Europe and Britain. Of course, the semi-recent Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson cgi animated movie has no doubt raised the character's profile considerably in the States, but I bet the majority of American comic fans haven't read any of the books. Anyway, you should check at least one of the books out. It's a rather wonderful series. You can see samples of it in my review thread, of course, and I know that the likes of Roquefort Raider and rossn would vouch for its excellence. But you should get @mechagodzilla's opinion on the series too. He's a recent convert to the wonder of Hergé and the Adventures of Tintin. Thanks for sharing this ... it's interesting!
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Post by Confessor on Jul 6, 2017 20:26:39 GMT -5
If it's in Comixology, I can read it there. Just stay away from the first two books in the series, Tintin in the Land of the Soviets and Tintin in the Congo, because they are very much sub-par. If you wanted a recommendation, I would suggest starting with The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure two-parter. Or The Blue Lotus is another good starting point as it is widely regarded as the earliest true classic in the series.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 6, 2017 20:46:05 GMT -5
tin tin oft had amazing graphic composition, which Toth fans would like.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2017 22:00:47 GMT -5
My first encounter with Tintin was serialized in an American kid's magazine I bought at a school book fair because it had a Christopher Reeves Superman movie cover story in the late 70s. I think it might have been this issue of Children's Digest, but I am not sure. It was the only issue I had and it only had a few pages of the Tintin story, but it stuck with me and when I rediscovered Tintin in grad school I loved it, but recalled this intro to it. -M
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jul 7, 2017 0:12:50 GMT -5
Tintin (and Asterix) was a staple of the school libraries here, though the little Gaul was more popular in my circle as a young 'fulla.
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Post by Confessor on Jul 7, 2017 8:38:50 GMT -5
It's Tintin, people, not Tin Tin. Sorry, personal bugbear of mine.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 7, 2017 10:24:42 GMT -5
It's Tintin, people, not Tin Tin. Sorry, personal bugbear of mine. Hear, hear!!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2017 10:37:55 GMT -5
It's Tintin, people, not Tin Tin. Sorry, personal bugbear of mine. Hear, hear!!! Spoken, like a true Herge Fan here ...
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 7, 2017 14:58:14 GMT -5
It's Tintin, people, not Tin Tin. Thanks for the reminder, Con Fessor.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 7, 2017 18:06:07 GMT -5
It's Tintin, people, not Tin Tin. Sorry, personal bugbear of mine. Like mine of people conflating bad-boudoire memoire cartoons with 'comics'.
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Post by The Captain on Jul 7, 2017 18:51:38 GMT -5
People paying $80-100 for Amazing Spider-Man #361 are crazy....people paying similar or more for the second print are MORE crazy! I love Spidey and I like Carnage and the way he looks. Did the stories every blow me away? No. But man, I am glad I got these for like $3-5 bucks 10 years ago. I feel like this issue is the next Deadpool...will explode until a movie comes out and then simmer but still be a crazy price for a book that literally every comic fan/collector owned and has a copy of. At my CBS Store that I go to - you can get a very good copy for $70 for it; anything $80 or more is too much for me to bear. That's absolute lunacy, and it makes me sad...because I bought up a bunch of them at just above cover price back when the book came out and sold them all for about $25 apiece. If only I'd had the foresight to hold onto them, I could pick up the remaining FF issues I'm looking for, with enough left over to finish off my Daredevil run.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2017 19:51:40 GMT -5
At my CBS Store that I go to - you can get a very good copy for $70 for it; anything $80 or more is too much for me to bear. That's absolute lunacy, and it makes me sad...because I bought up a bunch of them at just above cover price back when the book came out and sold them all for about $25 apiece. If only I'd had the foresight to hold onto them, I could pick up the remaining FF issues I'm looking for, with enough left over to finish off my Daredevil run. The price at my store is quite simple and that makes them to charge these prices that I'm saying here. I know that you are right it's absolute lunacy; but it's the customer(s) that drives those prices high. It's a simple case of supply and demand here. It's crazy and it's varies from one part of the country to another.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 7, 2017 20:02:52 GMT -5
I think Mrp pointed out one time that , in the comics world, it's not supply and demand. There is plenty of supply. And the demand is artificially pumped up. I don't think that issue had a low print run.
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