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Tintin #15-17
Adventures of Tintin: Land of Black Gold, Destination Moon & Explorers on the Moon
As all Tintin fans know, once you've read one of the ingenious boy detective's adventures, you've just got to read another. Volume Five contains Land of Black Gold, Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon. Full color.
196 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1984
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About the author
Hergé
979 books1,943 followersGeorges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist.
His best known and most substantial work is The Adventures of Tintin comic book series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, leaving the twenty-fourth Tintin adventure Tintin and Alph-Art unfinished. His work remains a strong influence on comics, particularly in Europe.
"Hergé" is the pseudonym of George Remí, making a game with the initials of his name inverted. Throughout the evolution of his star character, Tintin, we can see the progress of this author: from the first titles marked by the ultraconservative doctrine of the director of the newspaper Le Petit Vingtième, to the breaking of conventions embodied from The Blue Lotus , as well as the evolution of the society of his time. The research carried out by Hergé to historically contextualize his Adventures, as well as his implicit social criticism, have made Tintin a masterpiece of the 20th century.
Series on Goodreads:
* The Adventures of Tintin
* Quick & Flupke
* The adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko
His best known and most substantial work is The Adventures of Tintin comic book series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, leaving the twenty-fourth Tintin adventure Tintin and Alph-Art unfinished. His work remains a strong influence on comics, particularly in Europe.
"Hergé" is the pseudonym of George Remí, making a game with the initials of his name inverted. Throughout the evolution of his star character, Tintin, we can see the progress of this author: from the first titles marked by the ultraconservative doctrine of the director of the newspaper Le Petit Vingtième, to the breaking of conventions embodied from The Blue Lotus , as well as the evolution of the society of his time. The research carried out by Hergé to historically contextualize his Adventures, as well as his implicit social criticism, have made Tintin a masterpiece of the 20th century.
Series on Goodreads:
* The Adventures of Tintin
* Quick & Flupke
* The adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko
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April 27, 2023
Science fiction dominates this volume with Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon, another two part adventure. Considering that these stories date from the early 50's, we can cut Hergé some slack on the details he got wrong. The technology is on a par with other SF tales of the same era.
Just when you start to take Tintin's adventures too seriously, Hergé will throw in something goofy, like Thompson's and Thomson's reaction to the tablets in Land of Black Gold (which carries over into subsequent volumes as well.) Just enough action to be enthralling, just enough humor to keep it light and fun. Hergé rarely gets the proportions wrong.
We also get some character deaths, which I don't recall seeing in previous volumes. Either I wasn't paying attention, or Hergé just got better at giving them the proper dramatic impact to be memorable. They're quite tastefully handled.
This volume is yet another example of why Tintin is such a renowned creation. Highly recommended!
Just when you start to take Tintin's adventures too seriously, Hergé will throw in something goofy, like Thompson's and Thomson's reaction to the tablets in Land of Black Gold (which carries over into subsequent volumes as well.) Just enough action to be enthralling, just enough humor to keep it light and fun. Hergé rarely gets the proportions wrong.
We also get some character deaths, which I don't recall seeing in previous volumes. Either I wasn't paying attention, or Hergé just got better at giving them the proper dramatic impact to be memorable. They're quite tastefully handled.
This volume is yet another example of why Tintin is such a renowned creation. Highly recommended!
December 15, 2024
The first story is about cars blowing up mysteriously while driving, and Tintin goes to the Middle East to investigate. The second and third stories deal with a rocket the professor develops and their subsequent trip in the rocket to the moon. The moon stories gave an interesting vision of what people thought about rockets back in the 1960's.
April 7, 2024
Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon are my favorite pair of Tintin stories. Someday I'll even read the latter in English!
September 5, 2025
Tintin has such an outsize influence that it's hard to capture just what is "tintin" versus the mirror-reflections radiating out from Herge over decades and decades. Proto pop culture paraliterary star from the age of early color newspapers, Tintin is cited as an influence/something to rebel against/an inspiration despite (insert political darkness) here. I know a number of gay artists online who love TinTin for its homoerotic undertones and/or its designs for beautiful men. AK Summers, in her work Pregnant Butch, draws herself as TinTin; his beardless masculinity is certainly appealing to a specific kind of tmasc or butch. Likewise, Algerian/French cartoonist Joann Sfar mocked TinTin's condescending imperialism in his own comics about Morocco and Algeria.
Today I read this on my lunch break, since our copy at my library was damaged and I was deciding whether it was too racist to put in an order form for another one. My system will undoubtedly reorder it at some point, given the series' inevitable continued popularity but my branch...will not. Lol. I think that libraries should keep TinTin but perhaps in an edition that has some cartoonists from around the world reflecting on its cultural and artistic import/its politics or with cartoonists from the caricatured countries responding with their own cartoons. To my knowledge no such edition yet exists for kids.
This one opens with an imagined political crisis in the early 1950s centered on a western oil company competing with "Arabex" oil to guarantee a contract under a sheik in a somewhat nonspecific Arab country. Relevant to that decade's oil concerns and reflecting European ideas about the Muslim world, its new natural resource issues, and its women, it pictures Arab nationalists as violent, undereducated, in thrall to Islam, and residing to a man in deserts. None of the Arabs are smart or particularly competent, though Herge allows them a kind of ancient nobility. There are no women in this world. Wrapped up in the turmoil somewhat against his will, Tintin is kidnapped by militants working for the Western oil company and rescues a sheik's son from a plot by the evil Dr Muller.
The second and third stories are about going to the moon-- a dream not yet realized but on the horizon at the time the book was written.
The thing that is worth appreciating and impossible to ignore is the seductively expert use of color, the clear, clean lines, and the evocative illustrations of very identifiable places. Somehow, using flat ink washes, there is such a strong sense of daylight, night-time, illumination. The pacing is somewhat slower and more hand-holdy than later comics, but this leads to some truly hilarious slo-mo fights where, for instance, TinTin and his opponent both sneeze before being able to land blows. Herge's comics, if they are printed for critique, discussion and engagement, should be printed large-- a crime of the American publishers is to print French comics so small as to necessitate the use of a magnifying glass, when they should be 18'' folios.
Where character designs are not flat caricatures, they're interesting, evocative and specific. Crowd scenes are mouthwatering. However, whenever a Black person appears, Herge's designs become wide-eyed and red-lipped symbols of dehumanization.
Today I read this on my lunch break, since our copy at my library was damaged and I was deciding whether it was too racist to put in an order form for another one. My system will undoubtedly reorder it at some point, given the series' inevitable continued popularity but my branch...will not. Lol. I think that libraries should keep TinTin but perhaps in an edition that has some cartoonists from around the world reflecting on its cultural and artistic import/its politics or with cartoonists from the caricatured countries responding with their own cartoons. To my knowledge no such edition yet exists for kids.
This one opens with an imagined political crisis in the early 1950s centered on a western oil company competing with "Arabex" oil to guarantee a contract under a sheik in a somewhat nonspecific Arab country. Relevant to that decade's oil concerns and reflecting European ideas about the Muslim world, its new natural resource issues, and its women, it pictures Arab nationalists as violent, undereducated, in thrall to Islam, and residing to a man in deserts. None of the Arabs are smart or particularly competent, though Herge allows them a kind of ancient nobility. There are no women in this world. Wrapped up in the turmoil somewhat against his will, Tintin is kidnapped by militants working for the Western oil company and rescues a sheik's son from a plot by the evil Dr Muller.
The second and third stories are about going to the moon-- a dream not yet realized but on the horizon at the time the book was written.
The thing that is worth appreciating and impossible to ignore is the seductively expert use of color, the clear, clean lines, and the evocative illustrations of very identifiable places. Somehow, using flat ink washes, there is such a strong sense of daylight, night-time, illumination. The pacing is somewhat slower and more hand-holdy than later comics, but this leads to some truly hilarious slo-mo fights where, for instance, TinTin and his opponent both sneeze before being able to land blows. Herge's comics, if they are printed for critique, discussion and engagement, should be printed large-- a crime of the American publishers is to print French comics so small as to necessitate the use of a magnifying glass, when they should be 18'' folios.
Where character designs are not flat caricatures, they're interesting, evocative and specific. Crowd scenes are mouthwatering. However, whenever a Black person appears, Herge's designs become wide-eyed and red-lipped symbols of dehumanization.
January 7, 2018
3.5 stars!
I spent the last couple of months reading through a few volumes of Tintin (Volumes 3 to 6). Since I didn’t have a lot of specific things to say for each one, I thought I’d share this summarised post/review. Here are the books in order of preference:
Volume 5 which contains Red Rackham’s Treasure, The Seven Crystal Balls, and Prisoners of the Sun – 4 out of 5 stars
Volume 6 which contains Land of Black Gold, Destination Moon, and Explorers on the Moon – 3.5 out of 5 stars
Volume 4 which contains The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Shooting Star, and The Secret of the Unicorn – 3 out of 5 stars
Volume 3 which contains Tintin and The Broken Ear, The Black Island, and King Ottoker’s Sceptre – 3 out of 5 stars
And here is a list of the stories these volumes covered, listed in order of most enjoyable to least (least being good, but not as good as the ones above):
Explorers on the Moon
The Seven Crystal Balls
The Prisoners of the Sun
The Secret of the Unicorn
Red Rackham’s Treasure
Land of Black Gold
The Shooting Star
The Crab with the Golden Claws
King Ottokar’s Sceptre
Destination Moon
The Black Island
The Broken Ear
Volume 3 is where Tintin begins to connect various stories. You will run across characters from previous stories after Volume 3. Which is why it may be a good idea to stick to the order the books were written in while reading them.
Regardless of how you go about reading them, don’t miss out on Tintin and his adventures. They are books and stories that everyone must try, at least once. Stay tuned for the summarised review of the rest of the volumes (which will probably come up in a few months). Until then… Happy Reading!
I spent the last couple of months reading through a few volumes of Tintin (Volumes 3 to 6). Since I didn’t have a lot of specific things to say for each one, I thought I’d share this summarised post/review. Here are the books in order of preference:
Volume 5 which contains Red Rackham’s Treasure, The Seven Crystal Balls, and Prisoners of the Sun – 4 out of 5 stars
Volume 6 which contains Land of Black Gold, Destination Moon, and Explorers on the Moon – 3.5 out of 5 stars
Volume 4 which contains The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Shooting Star, and The Secret of the Unicorn – 3 out of 5 stars
Volume 3 which contains Tintin and The Broken Ear, The Black Island, and King Ottoker’s Sceptre – 3 out of 5 stars
And here is a list of the stories these volumes covered, listed in order of most enjoyable to least (least being good, but not as good as the ones above):
Explorers on the Moon
The Seven Crystal Balls
The Prisoners of the Sun
The Secret of the Unicorn
Red Rackham’s Treasure
Land of Black Gold
The Shooting Star
The Crab with the Golden Claws
King Ottokar’s Sceptre
Destination Moon
The Black Island
The Broken Ear
Volume 3 is where Tintin begins to connect various stories. You will run across characters from previous stories after Volume 3. Which is why it may be a good idea to stick to the order the books were written in while reading them.
Regardless of how you go about reading them, don’t miss out on Tintin and his adventures. They are books and stories that everyone must try, at least once. Stay tuned for the summarised review of the rest of the volumes (which will probably come up in a few months). Until then… Happy Reading!
November 22, 2022
Collects another three Tintin adventures.
Land of Black Gold, starts with mysterious gasoline explosions and leads Tintin to Arabia where he works to stop a war over oil. Dr. Muller (from The Black Island and Senhor Oliveira da Figueira (from Cigars of the Pharaoh return and we're introduced to emir Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab and his holy terror of a son Abdullah. The Thompson Twins also feature promenently and provide most of the comic relief.
Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon return us to the Cold War as Hergé gives us the moon landing ten years early. In this, Professor Calculus is working in Syldavia (from King Ottokar's Sceptre on a nuclear-powered moon rocket. But an unspecified foreign power seeks to steal the rocket out from under them. A good pair of stories, that give a plausible moon launch ten years before Neil Armstrong. you can tell Hergé did his research.
Land of Black Gold, starts with mysterious gasoline explosions and leads Tintin to Arabia where he works to stop a war over oil. Dr. Muller (from The Black Island and Senhor Oliveira da Figueira (from Cigars of the Pharaoh return and we're introduced to emir Mohammed Ben Kalish Ezab and his holy terror of a son Abdullah. The Thompson Twins also feature promenently and provide most of the comic relief.
Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon return us to the Cold War as Hergé gives us the moon landing ten years early. In this, Professor Calculus is working in Syldavia (from King Ottokar's Sceptre on a nuclear-powered moon rocket. But an unspecified foreign power seeks to steal the rocket out from under them. A good pair of stories, that give a plausible moon launch ten years before Neil Armstrong. you can tell Hergé did his research.
December 20, 2020
OK, these are getting a bit boring and outlandish, all at the same time. With Haddock and Calculus doing the same schtick that's starting to get old, and Tintin playing the role of sidekick more than usual, I ended up enjoying the Thompson duo more than before. But I think it's more of a lack of excitement from the others than the Thompsons getting much better. Also Snowy seemed to have less lines than usual, which probably led to the ho-hum attitude of these stories.
The first story is about gasoline being tampered with which causes Tintin and friends to pursue a bratty kid across the desert. "Destination Moon" is really just a set-up for "Explorers on the Moon", where Tintin becomes the first human to grace the lunar surface.
The first story is about gasoline being tampered with which causes Tintin and friends to pursue a bratty kid across the desert. "Destination Moon" is really just a set-up for "Explorers on the Moon", where Tintin becomes the first human to grace the lunar surface.
August 23, 2022
Still no extras. But as a collection, this was far and a way the best so far. But still not clear if it is because Tintin got better, or I just got used to it. Land of Black Gold as an individual volume was my favorite of the series so far. But all three volumes had a little bit less of the annoying silliness. But lot's of derring-do. Still far from perfect, but pretty good. 3.5 of 5.
June 1, 2022
Stories written before people actually went to space. Tintin is one step ahead of earth.
Blistering blue barnacles
Blistering blue barnacles
June 23, 2022
Was a pretty good read. Found it on the shelf and had it to read it. I still can't believe that this book was published before the actual moon landing was done. Woah.
Would I read the other books, totally.
The captain sure is a
Would I read the other books, totally.
The captain sure is a
February 9, 2018
Really 2.5
July 10, 2018
Classics! These books also helped me get through a dark time in my past so they hold some signifigance for me.
July 14, 2018
Loved it
May 7, 2019
Epic. Destination Moon & Explorers on the Moon are both the finest adventures in this omnibus.
July 14, 2019
Enjoyable! Certainly a fun read.
April 27, 2022
Pretty good got lost in it, cool, cool not bad just normal.
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October 11, 2022Note to self: read volume 15 only, not 16 or 17
September 24, 2024
One of my favorite Tintin collections.
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March 20, 2025death count on explorers on the moon: 2
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 26, 2025
RATING: 5/5
Fantastic - my childhood.
Fantastic - my childhood.
January 6, 2017
In this installment of the wildy funny Tintin series, Tintin and Snowy get mixed up in an oil sabatoge scheme, and go with Captain Haddock, Tomson and Thomson, Professor Calculus and his assistant, Wolf to the moon! Will they ever return?
December 22, 2011
#2011-51
Seri Tintin 3 in 1 ini adalah salah satu yang menjadi favorit saya. Sudah pernah baca di waktu kecil, dan baca lagi sekarang edisi bahasa Inggrisnya. Sengaja memang tidak beli lagi edisi bahasa Indonesianya yang diterbitkan Gramedia, soalnya nama2nya lain dari yang aku kenal waktu kecil dulu.
Jadi di sini masih Calculus, Snowy, Thomson dan Thompson..
Pertama adalah pertemuan Tintin dan Capt. Haddock dengan Abdullah, anak Ben Kalish Bab, pengusaha minyak kaya raya dari dataran Arab. Abdullah yang nakalnya luar biasa ini, sering sekali mempermainkan Captain Haddock. Lucu juga, perjalanan mereka di padang pasir dengan humor khas padang pasir seperti fatamorgana, badai pasir, kebodohan Thomson and Thompson berputar-putar di gurun. Juga intrik-intrik di ladang minyak dengan sejuta keberuntungan untuk Tintin.
Perjalanan ke bulan yang kocak banget!
Bayangkan, seorang reporter, seorang pelaut, seorang ilmuwan, pergi ke Bulan.. (ngapain juga ada pelaut pergi ke bulan?), apalagi pelaut ini adalah pelaut yang suka minum mabuk dan suka mengumpat-ngumpat. Bayangkan apabila 'blistering barnacles!'-nya itu dipakai di luar angkasa, menjadi 'sejuta badai asteroid!' . Belum lagi keikutsertaan dua detektif yang ketiduran di dalam roket dan tanpa sengaja terbawa waktu tinggal landas. Lebih lucunya lagi, ketika rambut mereka tumbuh terus menerus..
Pengen juga bagian yang ini difilmkan, pasti seru juga. Dari cuma perjalanan orang-orang lucu ini, bisa jadi heboh banget, perang bintang, konspirasi, perebutan kekuasaan dunia..
Waktu baca ini jadi mikir seorang teman yang pergi ke Tibet karena terinspirasi oleh buku Tintin in Tibet. Lalu, sesudah baca Exploring to the Moon lalu saya tanya,”Dan, kamu kapan pergi ke bulan?”
Seri Tintin 3 in 1 ini adalah salah satu yang menjadi favorit saya. Sudah pernah baca di waktu kecil, dan baca lagi sekarang edisi bahasa Inggrisnya. Sengaja memang tidak beli lagi edisi bahasa Indonesianya yang diterbitkan Gramedia, soalnya nama2nya lain dari yang aku kenal waktu kecil dulu.
Jadi di sini masih Calculus, Snowy, Thomson dan Thompson..
Pertama adalah pertemuan Tintin dan Capt. Haddock dengan Abdullah, anak Ben Kalish Bab, pengusaha minyak kaya raya dari dataran Arab. Abdullah yang nakalnya luar biasa ini, sering sekali mempermainkan Captain Haddock. Lucu juga, perjalanan mereka di padang pasir dengan humor khas padang pasir seperti fatamorgana, badai pasir, kebodohan Thomson and Thompson berputar-putar di gurun. Juga intrik-intrik di ladang minyak dengan sejuta keberuntungan untuk Tintin.
Perjalanan ke bulan yang kocak banget!
Bayangkan, seorang reporter, seorang pelaut, seorang ilmuwan, pergi ke Bulan.. (ngapain juga ada pelaut pergi ke bulan?), apalagi pelaut ini adalah pelaut yang suka minum mabuk dan suka mengumpat-ngumpat. Bayangkan apabila 'blistering barnacles!'-nya itu dipakai di luar angkasa, menjadi 'sejuta badai asteroid!' . Belum lagi keikutsertaan dua detektif yang ketiduran di dalam roket dan tanpa sengaja terbawa waktu tinggal landas. Lebih lucunya lagi, ketika rambut mereka tumbuh terus menerus..
Pengen juga bagian yang ini difilmkan, pasti seru juga. Dari cuma perjalanan orang-orang lucu ini, bisa jadi heboh banget, perang bintang, konspirasi, perebutan kekuasaan dunia..
Waktu baca ini jadi mikir seorang teman yang pergi ke Tibet karena terinspirasi oleh buku Tintin in Tibet. Lalu, sesudah baca Exploring to the Moon lalu saya tanya,”Dan, kamu kapan pergi ke bulan?”
February 24, 2014
Another great book made up of three stories. If you like comics, humor, and adventure then you'll read this book and wish it was made up of more stories!
Land of the Black Gold:
In Europe, cars have been exploding when filled with petroleum. What's causing these cars to explode? What kind of chemical in this stuff is so deadly? Who's responsible for it? All of these questions will be answered in another fantastic book by Hergé!
Destination Moon:
Captain Haddock and Tintin have just got back from their last adventure, when they receive a letter from their friend Professor Cuthbert Calculus who has just built a rocket ship that will take them to the moon. What threats will come of this? Will they actually make it there alive?
Explorers on the Moon:
So they made it! They are on the moon, and now it's time to watch our friends as they explore the moon and make discoveries of the fantastic sight! But, it's not all fun and games for long, as they climb back aboard the rocket. Tintin discovers that he, the professor, the captain, the two detectives and his dog, Snowy, won't have a very safe trip back home with the oxygen supply running low and a guest star appearance from an old enemy of his.
I love this book for the stories and the art. I love how these books were written years BEFORE man set foot on the moon. Looks like Tintin and his pals beat Armstrong to it.
Land of the Black Gold:
In Europe, cars have been exploding when filled with petroleum. What's causing these cars to explode? What kind of chemical in this stuff is so deadly? Who's responsible for it? All of these questions will be answered in another fantastic book by Hergé!
Destination Moon:
Captain Haddock and Tintin have just got back from their last adventure, when they receive a letter from their friend Professor Cuthbert Calculus who has just built a rocket ship that will take them to the moon. What threats will come of this? Will they actually make it there alive?
Explorers on the Moon:
So they made it! They are on the moon, and now it's time to watch our friends as they explore the moon and make discoveries of the fantastic sight! But, it's not all fun and games for long, as they climb back aboard the rocket. Tintin discovers that he, the professor, the captain, the two detectives and his dog, Snowy, won't have a very safe trip back home with the oxygen supply running low and a guest star appearance from an old enemy of his.
I love this book for the stories and the art. I love how these books were written years BEFORE man set foot on the moon. Looks like Tintin and his pals beat Armstrong to it.
October 4, 2013
It's our great loss that the Tintin series of comics are so hard to find here in the U.S. Because they're just about the most popular comics of all time (along with the Asterix series) in Europe. Tintin is a young boy journalist who travels around the world on various adventures, solving mysteries and fighting crime. The regular cast of characters in all of these adventures include: Thompson and Thomson, the twin bumbling detectives who always seem to be completely in the dark; Professor Cuthbert Calculus, the brilliant scientist; Captain Haddock, the bearded sailor who lives at Marlinspike Hall; and Tintin's faithful dog Snowy.
The Tintin books normally come one at a time, in a fairly large, paperback cover. This book is one of a series in which each edition includes three separate Tintin adventures. Volume 5 contains the following stories:
Land of Black Gold - Tintin travels to Arabia to investigate why someone is sabotaging all gasoline so that it is unstable and explodes.
Destination Moon - Tintin and Captain Hadduck are recruited by their friend Professor Calculus to help design and build a rocket that will carry the first men (them) to the moon.
Explorers on the Moon - Tintin and friends travel to the moon.
The Tintin series is absolutely fantastic and well worth hunting down.
The Tintin books normally come one at a time, in a fairly large, paperback cover. This book is one of a series in which each edition includes three separate Tintin adventures. Volume 5 contains the following stories:
Land of Black Gold - Tintin travels to Arabia to investigate why someone is sabotaging all gasoline so that it is unstable and explodes.
Destination Moon - Tintin and Captain Hadduck are recruited by their friend Professor Calculus to help design and build a rocket that will carry the first men (them) to the moon.
Explorers on the Moon - Tintin and friends travel to the moon.
The Tintin series is absolutely fantastic and well worth hunting down.
February 24, 2014
Another great book made up of three stories. If you like comics, humor, and adventure then you'll read this book and wish it was made up of more stories!
Land of the Black Gold:
In Europe, cars have been exploding when filled with petroleum. What's causing these cars to explode? What kind of chemical in this stuff is so deadly? Who's responsible for it? All of these questions will be answered in another fantastic book by Hergé!
Destination Moon:
Captain Haddock and Tintin have just got back from their last adventure, when they receive a letter from their friend Professor Cuthbert Calculus who has just built a rocket ship that will take them to the moon. What threats will come of this? Will they actually make it there alive?
Explorers on the Moon:
So they made it! They are on the moon, and now it's time to watch our friends as they explore the moon and make discoveries of the fantastic sight! But, it's not all fun and games for long, as they climb back aboard the rocket. Tintin discovers that he, the professor, the captain, the two detectives and his dog, Snowy, won't have a very safe trip back home with the oxygen supply running low and a guest star appearance from an old enemy of his.
I love this book for the stories and the art. I love how these books were written years BEFORE man set foot on the moon. Looks like Tintin and his pals beat Armstrong to it.
Land of the Black Gold:
In Europe, cars have been exploding when filled with petroleum. What's causing these cars to explode? What kind of chemical in this stuff is so deadly? Who's responsible for it? All of these questions will be answered in another fantastic book by Hergé!
Destination Moon:
Captain Haddock and Tintin have just got back from their last adventure, when they receive a letter from their friend Professor Cuthbert Calculus who has just built a rocket ship that will take them to the moon. What threats will come of this? Will they actually make it there alive?
Explorers on the Moon:
So they made it! They are on the moon, and now it's time to watch our friends as they explore the moon and make discoveries of the fantastic sight! But, it's not all fun and games for long, as they climb back aboard the rocket. Tintin discovers that he, the professor, the captain, the two detectives and his dog, Snowy, won't have a very safe trip back home with the oxygen supply running low and a guest star appearance from an old enemy of his.
I love this book for the stories and the art. I love how these books were written years BEFORE man set foot on the moon. Looks like Tintin and his pals beat Armstrong to it.
February 24, 2014
Another great book made up of three stories. If you like comics, humor, and adventure then you'll read this book and wish it was made up of more stories!
Land of the Black Gold:
In Europe, cars have been exploding when filled with petroleum. What's causing these cars to explode? What kind of chemical in this stuff is so deadly? Who's responsible for it? All of these questions will be answered in another fantastic book by Hergé!
Destination Moon:
Captain Haddock and Tintin have just got back from their last adventure, when they receive a letter from their friend Professor Cuthbert Calculus who has just built a rocket ship that will take them to the moon. What threats will come of this? Will they actually make it there alive?
Explorers on the Moon:
So they made it! They are on the moon, and now it's time to watch our friends as they explore the moon and make discoveries of the fantastic sight! But, it's not all fun and games for long, as they climb back aboard the rocket. Tintin discovers that he, the professor, the captain, the two detectives and his dog, Snowy, won't have a very safe trip back home with the oxygen supply running low and a guest star appearance from an old enemy of his.
I love this book for the stories and the art. I love how these books were written years BEFORE man set foot on the moon. Looks like Tintin and his pals beat Armstrong to it.
Land of the Black Gold:
In Europe, cars have been exploding when filled with petroleum. What's causing these cars to explode? What kind of chemical in this stuff is so deadly? Who's responsible for it? All of these questions will be answered in another fantastic book by Hergé!
Destination Moon:
Captain Haddock and Tintin have just got back from their last adventure, when they receive a letter from their friend Professor Cuthbert Calculus who has just built a rocket ship that will take them to the moon. What threats will come of this? Will they actually make it there alive?
Explorers on the Moon:
So they made it! They are on the moon, and now it's time to watch our friends as they explore the moon and make discoveries of the fantastic sight! But, it's not all fun and games for long, as they climb back aboard the rocket. Tintin discovers that he, the professor, the captain, the two detectives and his dog, Snowy, won't have a very safe trip back home with the oxygen supply running low and a guest star appearance from an old enemy of his.
I love this book for the stories and the art. I love how these books were written years BEFORE man set foot on the moon. Looks like Tintin and his pals beat Armstrong to it.
August 2, 2011
The Tintin stories for anyone who has read them and understands their history can't be viewed as anything other than groundbreaking. The beginnings of these stories have been around as long as the Lord of the Rings, the illustration and environments in the Tintin books are accurate and extremely detailed. Anyone who has spent even a little time exploring Herge (Georges Remi) can see the painstaking research and adversity he worked through to compose the world around Tintin. His ideas were ahead of his time (Exploring the moon, Industrialization, South American political conflict, modern slave trade, extraterrestrial life) and he made certain every detail for every object would be realistic (after the third book at least). Herge's work can certainly be cited as an influence for any modern day graphic novel or comic book.
February 24, 2012
"Bab El Ehr! Bab El Ehr! Son of a mangy dog! Grandson of a scurvy jackal! Great grandson of a moulting vulture! My revenge will be terrible! I will impale you on a spit! I will roast you over a slow fire! I will pull out you beard, one hair at a time . . . And then I will stuff it down you throat!" -Mohammed Ben Kaiish Ezab (Land of Black Gold)
"Begone, you worm! Out of my sight! I'm acting the goat, d'you hear?" -Cuthbert Calculus (Destination Moon)
"?!" -Captain Haddock (Explorers on the Moon)
"Begone, you worm! Out of my sight! I'm acting the goat, d'you hear?" -Cuthbert Calculus (Destination Moon)
"?!" -Captain Haddock (Explorers on the Moon)
February 4, 2013
The adventures of Tin Tin vol.5 was a very interesting book. I enjoyed this book because it had lots of pictures so you could get a better understanding of whats going on in the book.The main theme in Tin Tin was suspense because you never knew what was going to happen next.In the book Tin Tin is on the hunt for a bad man.There are people all around looking to kill Tin Tin and you never knew what would happen next.Tin Tin is a lot like many other action movies because the good guy always wins.The book has many parts were the good guys go bad so you never know who is working for who.The author did a great job of adding that element of suspense to the book and he did it because it makes the book more interesting.I enjoyed this book but I only give it three stars because it is a graphic novel.
November 28, 2012
The Adventures of Tintin, Vol. 5, Books #13-#15
Land of Black Gold: Looming war and a mystery about exploding fuel send Tintin to Khemikhal,Khemed into a hornet's nest of rebellion, violence and abduction.
Destination Moon: Upon returning to Marlinspike Hall, Captain Haddock and Tintin receive a cryptic telegram from Professor Calculus entreating them to join him in Syldavia. Once they arrive, he asks them for assistance in his effort to send a rocket to the moon.
Explorers on the Moon: Sequel to Destination Moon. After a harrowing flight, they land safely on the moon but must deal with a traitor in their midst and their depleting oxygen levels.
Land of Black Gold: Looming war and a mystery about exploding fuel send Tintin to Khemikhal,Khemed into a hornet's nest of rebellion, violence and abduction.
Destination Moon: Upon returning to Marlinspike Hall, Captain Haddock and Tintin receive a cryptic telegram from Professor Calculus entreating them to join him in Syldavia. Once they arrive, he asks them for assistance in his effort to send a rocket to the moon.
Explorers on the Moon: Sequel to Destination Moon. After a harrowing flight, they land safely on the moon but must deal with a traitor in their midst and their depleting oxygen levels.
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