I waited years for you to do this, thank you so very much. You're the only RUclipsr I've seen who respects the original Tintin comics. And you're probably one of the sweetest people on RUclips I have ever seen. Edit: It's a shame I missed the "live" stream! Thank god, I can at least rewatch it.
Thank you so very much! And I'm so glad you enjoyed the recording - hope you get to join live one day soon, but I always hope these recordings hold up for later viewing too!
I've been putting this video on for the last few nights while going to sleep.. not because I find you boring, but because its nice to drift off while hearing someone discuss Tintin! Funnily I agree with almost everything. In my opinion The Broken Ear is the poorest book outside of the first two, which are unreadable for me. I don't enjoy Prisoners of the Sun or Explorers on the Moon, but that's just a personal preference. One choice I'm very happy to see is that the Red Sea Sharks was rated as sublime. In my opinion the passage from page 53 onwards is the most exciting from any Tintin adventure. The submarine fight, and the arrival of the USS Los Angeles. I was in Brussels three weeks ago for a Tintin pilgrimage, and I came home with a totally packed suitcase after both the Tintin Shop and the Hergé Museum 😂 Great video, thank you 🇮🇪 🇮🇳
As someone who puts on their favourite RUclipsrs when going to bed, I take that as the highest of compliments! And you know what they say about great minds! 😁
Cigars of the Pharaoh was not only my first Tintin book, but my first comic book, so I have extreme nostalgia goggles on for that story. But in truth, I'm not so much interested in the ranking itself as I am the discussion about each story and what it means to you. This was an absolute joy to watch.
I remember the utter joy of finding Tintin in the school library. They had very worn copies of King Ottokar's Sceptre and the Secret of the Unicorn. Those two still represent a special kind of nostalgia for me. Thanks for the extensive ranking, excellent work.
Thank you so much! A friend, some years ago, found me a tattered copy of Ottokar after listening to my lament on how my childhood copy had disintegrated. This copy he found for me was essentially a sheaf of brown pages taped together at the spine, and somehow it meant more than if it had been a shiny new hardcover! 😁
Is it that great minds think alike? Or that fools seldom differ? 😁 But yes, even on this channel I recorded my opinion of it more than 5 years ago, so it's not an unconsidered opinion by any means! 😁 ruclips.net/video/yCDBxyIxO9M/видео.htmlsi=agkh317qFE7_NYkb
This video was so refreshing to see. Took a few days to complete the whole thing, but loved every part of it. What detailing ❤ Would love to see a tier list of the Asterix, at least for the Goscinny titles. Take your time, no hurry 😅
Thrilled you enjoyed it, and thank you so much for those kind words! Asterix seems the natural successor, but my batteries may need some recharging before that! 😁 Once again, I'm thrilled you had a good time!
@@ftloc Welcome! The amount of hard work and passion you put towards making these videos are praiseworthy. And of course, take your time. 😅 I wish I could meet you once and see your whole comics collection and have discussion 😁
One of my favourite things in Tintin is drunk Snowy as shown in The Black Island. 🤣 I’m currently watching this video a bit at a time before bed and while I’ve decided this summer to stick to prose novels (as they’re easier for me to read outside), this video has convinced me to add some Tintin in the mix. They can make good evening done in ones. 😉
As a fan of Tintin I would say: I agree on your no.1: 'the Calculus affair'👍 And I ❤ ,the shooting star', espacially the first half. It scared me as a child and I still find it dark and scary. But I don't like ,flight 714' 🤷 Greatings from Germany 🙋
Greetings right back from India! And yes, the first half of the Shooting Star is so good that I still carry it with me as a great example of impending doom, and the nightmares are truly discomforting!
@@ftloc This is what I love about the Internet: I am here in Nürnberg, Germany and can exchange my ideas about my tavourite Comics with someone living so far away in India. Looking forward to see more Videos from you. And now I sit in the garden, have a Coffee and read ,Destination moon' 😀 All the best for you 🙋
@@ftloc Yeah! The joint French-Canadian production. I had the CD set in Switzerland so I grew up with the European version but with the original English dub. Honestly that's Tintin for me, and finding the books later I can say that they did an incredible job with the TV series because the characters are basically identical :)
Impossible for me to rank but Tibet might be my favourite because it's the most emotional. Herge was going through some kind of depression when he wrote it. I forget the details (I believe he was having dreams of white voids) but I think it makes it his most personal.
Hi Angshuman, a Tintin video is always welcome..more the merrier. You should do one on the new colourized albums (Soviet, Congo, America, Cigars) vs the modern ones. Suggestions: A deep dive into your Alan Moore collection. And one on graphic novels with the best socially/ politically relevant storylines/themes.
Thank you so much! And yes, as I was saying here, no amount if Tintin is ever enough 😁 It may be just me, but I wasn't that interested in the colorized versions. They do look well designed, but the exact point other than novelty was something I couldn't identify, so I kind of skipped them. Are they really worth buying, would you say, even though I know it's kind of a nonsense question? And I've been pondering an Alan Moore video for ages, but I've never figured out the shape. Hopefully some time this year!
Also I can remember reading The Crab with the Golden Claw as a kid (after reading other later Tintin books) and wondering why Captain Haddock was behaving like such a dick. 🤣
Unfortunately I missed the live event but nowadays I tend to enjoy the early black and white books the most. Probably the nostalgia effect and the more clean and stylized effect speak to me more. Books about Hergé’s work are also on top of my Tintin related books. Probably you’ll find a day to dedicate to those?… Cheers.
Cheers! The black and white editions are thrilling things, but for a tier list I had to go with the ones I'd read and reread and rereread...😁 I've enjoyed a handful of books on Herge and Tintin, but for this channel I like to maintain a sole focus on comics, which is why The Adventures of Herge was a perfect book! 😁
Interesting tier list and not mine at all! For me, Temple du Soleil is top tier due to the alternative format from Journal Tintin: a genuine masterpiece. I also buy into the argument that L'Étoile Mysterieuse is the manifestation of Hergé's anxiety at the Nazi occupation ... that doesn't make it good but it does elevate its importance. Tintin Au Congo is an artistic failure but it's of great historical interest. And I always read with the vintage colours where available. But in essence you're right: they're too close in standard to one another to fit easily into tiers.
The chats have not yet been loaded into the VOD, they usually take a few hours to show up. I will post on the community page when they are available, probably the same time as the HD becomes available!
The Blue Lotus is my favourite, so it’ll obviously be at the top for me, I’d bump Cigars of the Pharoah to excellent, same goes for Crab with the golden claws. Agree with the bottom 3. I’d put Tintin in America in Not Bad and bump The Broken Ear to Pretty Good (marginally). I’d say most of it is subjective though, Except the first two, everything else is enjoyable. For the rest, Tintin in America and The Broken Ear are my least favourites.
I’m a huge Linkin Park fan as well and Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham’s Treasure are like Numb and In the End of Tintin, what i mean is that those are the first ones i recommend to people who are getting into tintin but it’s so well received by people that i start to think it might be little overrated. These are books i think a lot of people agree is great but less likely to be their absolute favourite.
Since Alph Art wasn’t ranked, this is my opinion on this - This was set up for greatness, if it was completed, im pretty sure it would end up in my top 5 adventures at the very least
Also Agree on Picaros, top 5 for me These are my absolute favourites The Blue Lotus Seven Crystal Balls + Prisoners of the Sun The Calculus Affair Tintin in Tibet Tintin and the Picaros I don’t know how i rank the rest but i would say Red Sea Sharks, The Land of Black Gold are almost up there and i have a nostalgic bias towards Cigars of the Pharoah
I think Tintin in Congo is better than Tintin in America. Congo is unapologetically offensive, America is offensively bland. In any case, the first three books don't really exist. It's the presence of the supporting cast, which begins in Cigars of the Pharaoh, that makes Tintin more human, not just Thomson & Thompson, but also Prince Abdallah, Oliveira da Figueira, Zorrino, or the villains. And the strip only really becomes solidified when Capt. Haddock debuts in The Crab with the Golden Claws. I've reread most books after this book several times (The Castafiore Emerald being the last really good one), and rarely revisited the pre-Crab books. (Having a hard time using the English names here. The Portuguese translation is much closer to the original French)
The reason The Blue Lotus is much better research than preceding books is because Hergé met a Chinese college student in Brussells that became one of his closest friends. The character Chang is based on Zhang Chongren, and Tintin in Tibet is a response to Hergé missing his friend after Zhang went back to China. In later life, Hergé became disillusioned to find out Zhang had embraced the cultural revolution upon his return.
As for my favorites, even from a young age I was more attracted to science fiction and big machines, so the two Moon books and the two Rackham books are the ones I like the most. I can't remember if any of them was the first, it was either The Secret of the Unicorn, or The Crab with the Golden Claws. I seem to remember Alan was important as a bad guy in the first Tintin book I've read.
@@ftloc bro watching your videos is like having a fun educational conversational with a friend, no matter what the subject material I always feel better off after watching your videos, you know I have been a fan for a long time and especially love it when you do TinTin content, 3.5 more hours of Tintin content! What could we ask for lol, thank you brother and keep up the amazing work, would love to meet up with you if ever you are in South Africa, from a fellow Indian who grew up on TinTin who had been intoduced to me by my late uncle
@@nathanvalaneildaniel3123 thank you so much for those kind, and touching, words! It's a small world, they tell me, we may yet one day meet. Until then, good to have you here and long may your enjoyment continue! 😁
I waited years for you to do this, thank you so very much. You're the only RUclipsr I've seen who respects the original Tintin comics. And you're probably one of the sweetest people on RUclips I have ever seen.
Edit: It's a shame I missed the "live" stream! Thank god, I can at least rewatch it.
Thank you so very much! And I'm so glad you enjoyed the recording - hope you get to join live one day soon, but I always hope these recordings hold up for later viewing too!
@@ftloc S in rankings was for those of superb quality, it's in games like Sonic. Clearly, people were doing the rankings in that style.
I've been putting this video on for the last few nights while going to sleep.. not because I find you boring, but because its nice to drift off while hearing someone discuss Tintin!
Funnily I agree with almost everything. In my opinion The Broken Ear is the poorest book outside of the first two, which are unreadable for me. I don't enjoy Prisoners of the Sun or Explorers on the Moon, but that's just a personal preference.
One choice I'm very happy to see is that the Red Sea Sharks was rated as sublime. In my opinion the passage from page 53 onwards is the most exciting from any Tintin adventure. The submarine fight, and the arrival of the USS Los Angeles.
I was in Brussels three weeks ago for a Tintin pilgrimage, and I came home with a totally packed suitcase after both the Tintin Shop and the Hergé Museum 😂
Great video, thank you 🇮🇪 🇮🇳
As someone who puts on their favourite RUclipsrs when going to bed, I take that as the highest of compliments!
And you know what they say about great minds! 😁
Cigars of the Pharaoh was not only my first Tintin book, but my first comic book, so I have extreme nostalgia goggles on for that story. But in truth, I'm not so much interested in the ranking itself as I am the discussion about each story and what it means to you. This was an absolute joy to watch.
Thrilled you enjoyed it! And absolutely, any listmaking is an exercise to ramble deeply about things we love, never an empirical evaluation! 😁
I remember the utter joy of finding Tintin in the school library. They had very worn copies of King Ottokar's Sceptre and the Secret of the Unicorn. Those two still represent a special kind of nostalgia for me. Thanks for the extensive ranking, excellent work.
Thank you so much!
A friend, some years ago, found me a tattered copy of Ottokar after listening to my lament on how my childhood copy had disintegrated. This copy he found for me was essentially a sheaf of brown pages taped together at the spine, and somehow it meant more than if it had been a shiny new hardcover! 😁
Thank you for this my friend! Really sad I missed this live
Finally, someone who loves The Calculus Affair as much as I do!
Is it that great minds think alike? Or that fools seldom differ? 😁
But yes, even on this channel I recorded my opinion of it more than 5 years ago, so it's not an unconsidered opinion by any means! 😁 ruclips.net/video/yCDBxyIxO9M/видео.htmlsi=agkh317qFE7_NYkb
This video was so refreshing to see. Took a few days to complete the whole thing, but loved every part of it. What detailing ❤
Would love to see a tier list of the Asterix, at least for the Goscinny titles. Take your time, no hurry 😅
Thrilled you enjoyed it, and thank you so much for those kind words!
Asterix seems the natural successor, but my batteries may need some recharging before that! 😁
Once again, I'm thrilled you had a good time!
@@ftloc Welcome! The amount of hard work and passion you put towards making these videos are praiseworthy. And of course, take your time. 😅
I wish I could meet you once and see your whole comics collection and have discussion 😁
Great to see The Seven Crystal Balls get some well deserved love.
It's terrific! And what a cover...😁
One of my favourite things in Tintin is drunk Snowy as shown in The Black Island. 🤣 I’m currently watching this video a bit at a time before bed and while I’ve decided this summer to stick to prose novels (as they’re easier for me to read outside), this video has convinced me to add some Tintin in the mix. They can make good evening done in ones. 😉
You wouldn't even need the whole evening! 😁
Kate Beaton has a great comic referencing Snowy being drunk.
As a fan of Tintin I would say: I agree on your no.1: 'the Calculus affair'👍
And I ❤ ,the shooting star', espacially the first half. It scared me as a child and I still find it dark and scary.
But I don't like ,flight 714' 🤷
Greatings from Germany 🙋
Greetings right back from India! And yes, the first half of the Shooting Star is so good that I still carry it with me as a great example of impending doom, and the nightmares are truly discomforting!
@@ftloc
This is what I love about the Internet: I am here in Nürnberg, Germany and can exchange my ideas about my tavourite Comics with someone living so far away in India.
Looking forward to see more Videos from you. And now I sit in the garden, have a Coffee and read ,Destination moon' 😀
All the best for you 🙋
@@thomaskummer9968 ☝🏽🌙!
Flight 714 my favourite of all time! The 1991 series version is incredible, definitely freaked me out as a kid
I'm a fan! What is the 1991 version, is it the TV show you're referring to?
@@ftloc Yeah! The joint French-Canadian production. I had the CD set in Switzerland so I grew up with the European version but with the original English dub. Honestly that's Tintin for me, and finding the books later I can say that they did an incredible job with the TV series because the characters are basically identical :)
This is pretty much spot on identical to mine! Good job!
Hey hey thank you! What geniuses we must be, amirite? 😁
You have raised Tintin in America one level up by mistake.
haha, some may even say two or three levels! 😁
Impossible for me to rank but Tibet might be my favourite because it's the most emotional. Herge was going through some kind of depression when he wrote it. I forget the details (I believe he was having dreams of white voids) but I think it makes it his most personal.
I'd definitely agree that it is the most intimate, which is a major factor in what makes it rank so high for me too!
Hi Angshuman, a Tintin video is always welcome..more the merrier. You should do one on the new colourized albums (Soviet, Congo, America, Cigars) vs the modern ones.
Suggestions: A deep dive into your Alan Moore collection. And one on graphic novels with the best socially/ politically relevant storylines/themes.
Thank you so much! And yes, as I was saying here, no amount if Tintin is ever enough 😁
It may be just me, but I wasn't that interested in the colorized versions. They do look well designed, but the exact point other than novelty was something I couldn't identify, so I kind of skipped them. Are they really worth buying, would you say, even though I know it's kind of a nonsense question?
And I've been pondering an Alan Moore video for ages, but I've never figured out the shape. Hopefully some time this year!
Flight 714 is one the masterpieces it is definitely a sublime .
I'm so glad to hear more love for 714! As evident, I love it! 😁
Also I can remember reading The Crab with the Golden Claw as a kid (after reading other later Tintin books) and wondering why Captain Haddock was behaving like such a dick. 🤣
Haha I believe it was quite similar for me!
Unfortunately I missed the live event but nowadays I tend to enjoy the early black and white books the most. Probably the nostalgia effect and the more clean and stylized effect speak to me more. Books about Hergé’s work are also on top of my Tintin related books. Probably you’ll find a day to dedicate to those?… Cheers.
Cheers!
The black and white editions are thrilling things, but for a tier list I had to go with the ones I'd read and reread and rereread...😁
I've enjoyed a handful of books on Herge and Tintin, but for this channel I like to maintain a sole focus on comics, which is why The Adventures of Herge was a perfect book! 😁
From Tintin in Tinet onwards, the Tintin Albums have literary merits. They are not just adventures.
I'd go even earlier, but no matter what, it's an incredible streak!
Interesting tier list and not mine at all! For me, Temple du Soleil is top tier due to the alternative format from Journal Tintin: a genuine masterpiece. I also buy into the argument that L'Étoile Mysterieuse is the manifestation of Hergé's anxiety at the Nazi occupation ... that doesn't make it good but it does elevate its importance. Tintin Au Congo is an artistic failure but it's of great historical interest. And I always read with the vintage colours where available. But in essence you're right: they're too close in standard to one another to fit easily into tiers.
Is the Journal Tintin format the newspaper-landscape one?
@@ftloc Yes, that's the one, with all the educational material at the bottom of the page.
good idea for a tier list
Hope you enjoyed it!
Not everyone hates Flight 714’s ending. In fact, Young Hellboy: The Hidden Land pays homage to it. (There are several Tintin nods in that story.)
That's great to know that not everyone dislikes that ending, and now I am curious about Young Hellboy, which I have not read! Thanks!
If you quickly google the cover for Young Hellboy: Assault on Castle Death #3, you'll see the most obvious Tintin reference.
I did more - I found a marked down copy of the HC and impulsively purchased it 😝
❤❤❤lots of love from India
Right back at you, also from India (New Delhi)!
What happened to all those comments
The chats have not yet been loaded into the VOD, they usually take a few hours to show up. I will post on the community page when they are available, probably the same time as the HD becomes available!
They're here now! 😁
The Blue Lotus is my favourite, so it’ll obviously be at the top for me, I’d bump Cigars of the Pharoah to excellent, same goes for Crab with the golden claws. Agree with the bottom 3. I’d put Tintin in America in Not Bad and bump The Broken Ear to Pretty Good (marginally). I’d say most of it is subjective though, Except the first two, everything else is enjoyable. For the rest, Tintin in America and The Broken Ear are my least favourites.
On another note, it takes a huge amount of effort to go through the adventures in this level of depth, that’s great level of dedication
I’m a huge Linkin Park fan as well and Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham’s Treasure are like Numb and In the End of Tintin, what i mean is that those are the first ones i recommend to people who are getting into tintin but it’s so well received by people that i start to think it might be little overrated. These are books i think a lot of people agree is great but less likely to be their absolute favourite.
Agree with Red Sea Sharks, criminally underrated
Since Alph Art wasn’t ranked, this is my opinion on this - This was set up for greatness, if it was completed, im pretty sure it would end up in my top 5 adventures at the very least
Also Agree on Picaros, top 5 for me
These are my absolute favourites
The Blue Lotus
Seven Crystal Balls + Prisoners of the Sun
The Calculus Affair
Tintin in Tibet
Tintin and the Picaros
I don’t know how i rank the rest but i would say Red Sea Sharks, The Land of Black Gold are almost up there and i have a nostalgic bias towards Cigars of the Pharoah
I think Tintin in Congo is better than Tintin in America. Congo is unapologetically offensive, America is offensively bland. In any case, the first three books don't really exist. It's the presence of the supporting cast, which begins in Cigars of the Pharaoh, that makes Tintin more human, not just Thomson & Thompson, but also Prince Abdallah, Oliveira da Figueira, Zorrino, or the villains. And the strip only really becomes solidified when Capt. Haddock debuts in The Crab with the Golden Claws. I've reread most books after this book several times (The Castafiore Emerald being the last really good one), and rarely revisited the pre-Crab books. (Having a hard time using the English names here. The Portuguese translation is much closer to the original French)
The reason The Blue Lotus is much better research than preceding books is because Hergé met a Chinese college student in Brussells that became one of his closest friends. The character Chang is based on Zhang Chongren, and Tintin in Tibet is a response to Hergé missing his friend after Zhang went back to China. In later life, Hergé became disillusioned to find out Zhang had embraced the cultural revolution upon his return.
As for my favorites, even from a young age I was more attracted to science fiction and big machines, so the two Moon books and the two Rackham books are the ones I like the most. I can't remember if any of them was the first, it was either The Secret of the Unicorn, or The Crab with the Golden Claws. I seem to remember Alan was important as a bad guy in the first Tintin book I've read.
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"Should finish this live stream in about 45 minutes." How wrong he was hahaha.
I'd say I had a pretty good estimate! 😁
Thank you for this my friend! Really sad I missed this live
Thank you, and I hope you get to make a live one day soon!
@@ftloc bro watching your videos is like having a fun educational conversational with a friend, no matter what the subject material I always feel better off after watching your videos, you know I have been a fan for a long time and especially love it when you do TinTin content, 3.5 more hours of Tintin content! What could we ask for lol, thank you brother and keep up the amazing work, would love to meet up with you if ever you are in South Africa, from a fellow Indian who grew up on TinTin who had been intoduced to me by my late uncle
@@nathanvalaneildaniel3123 thank you so much for those kind, and touching, words! It's a small world, they tell me, we may yet one day meet. Until then, good to have you here and long may your enjoyment continue! 😁