Tintin, where to start? The wholesome intrepid young reproter with an eye for a story. He's solved more crimes then I've had hot dinners and is one of my all time favourite characters.

Are there any other Tintin fans out there just waiting to celebrate the ginger hero?

If so let your views be known

Ah Tintin! Gotta love him! And Captain Haddock. They (along with Snowey of course) are the best super-sleuthe, crime-solving team ever!

Oh yes, i used to love the episode with the mummies and cigars, generaly because it used to scare the shit out of me when i was a kid.

I always used to think the evil guy looked a tad like himmler, very scary

He was also a member of the Hitler Youth, too.

are you saying Tintin was a member of the Hitler youth?

That`s what I`m saying. At least, that`s the rumour. When the Nazis occupied Belgium, Herge is basically said to have collaborated his arse off, and written Tintin as an Aryan hero.

I heard about that but Herge is was forced into it, to be fair if I worked somewhere that was occupied by Nazi's and they were forcing me to change the content I wouldn't argue.

There's an element of truth to this, but the story's a little more complicated.

Yea, i heared he was forced to as well. Also , i think it would break my heart to learn that my childhood rolemodel was written for a bunch of fascists.

ahh that certainly clears things up, and in no way alters my feelings on Tintin. I've always loved the books and still do

That was really very interesting. Thanks Chapman!

My lovely boy bought me the Tintin dvd box set for Christmas. Takes me back to when I was a nipper and used to borrow the books out the library. And I always used to get out the Asterix books as well as they were in the same section.

I've started to collect all the Asterix books now, which reminds me that I should get me down to Fopp and get me some more.

I do have a fabulous tintin t shirt. Much like the one Rufus is wearing...



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Now Asterix, I like. I still have all the books, and they`re something I never tire of reading, they`re still really funny.

I had too read asterix in it's origional German form, now that was a pain.

Asterix is great! I used to (and still sometimes do) get Tintin and Asterix out from the library at the same time, too, Tigerlily. Man, great days, great days.

I used to watch the Asterix films when I was younger, i really like the one were they have to prove theyre gods by doing twelve tasks. One of the tasks was to just get this form from a council building, pretty funny stuff

Aye, they don't make em like they used to.

I preferred the Tintin books to Asterix. The Thompson twins, professor Calculus and Captain Haddock can't be beat.
Both the cartoon series' annoy me though. Asterix is too squeaky, and Tintin turns out to be really boring in animated form.

...as well as being a huge gay icon - the lad seem to please all camps!

Used to read Tin Tin and (moreso) Asterix in the library when I was a kid. Also, I think it was called, Lucky Luke...a cowboy story by the Asterix team

I was always a Tintin fan as a kid, and my ex has collected all of the stories. I used to love curling up with a cup of tea and a Tintin adventure.

I far preferred Asterix to Tintin... I've still to sample a Wild Boar feast!

I also used to get Asterix and Tintin books out of the library at the same time. I credit them ewith helping me to have an andvanced reading age at school.

I have as an adult slavishly collected them all. They are brilliant comics.

I read Tintin in Tibet recently, and the bit where they leave the yeti all alone and sad at the end nearly made me cry.

I heard that the translations of Asterix lose alot of the word play that makes them so funny

when i went to the comics museum in brussels, they had loads of tintin memorabilia, and all these lifesize remakes of things, like the moonlanding suits. the staircase even had a broken step, at just the right place!!

man, tintin's cool

Asterix is French!

(isn't it?!)

yup - asterix the gaul.

I used to get together with a group of friends at school during our luch break and we would voice all the characters (based on the animated series voices) while reading from the books. We would even read speach bubbles with nothing but "!" as "exclamation mark".

I like Tintin better than Asterix because there are less repeated gags, The Cacafonix gag at the end of every book really used to get on my nerves.

Does anyone actually know the paper Tintin wrote for, or was he freelance?

And how exactly do you become world reporter number 1?

Kill the rest of them.

I started writing a Tintin parody once called The Installments of Willoughby Stutter in which an asexual 45 year old midget man-child solved mysteries with his 13 stone cat Piggy Malone. Couldn't quite get the story together though.

Sorry, fat cats make me smile, especially mystery-solving fat cats named Piggy.

The name was a little Ronnie Barker tribute and the cat came from a Daily Sport headline: 13 Stone Cat Eats Burglar

It's a strange, strange world.

I was just googling looking for pix of fat cats and it's funny that in almost all the pictures the cats are are their backs. It also made me depressed that someone could do that to an animal.

Now, if this was the headline, I'd believe it.

Tintin was a reporter for 'Le Petit Vingtieme', telling his "news stories" via the comics of Herge.

Alea jacta est

I never liked tin tin

Et tu Brute

That kid who was quite good in 'Love Actually' cast as Tintin.

Jackson, Spielberg, Captain Haddock; anyone else starting to get excited?

Oh hell yeah... I, at one point, had every Tintin there was...

I'm wondering who'll be cast as Professor Calculus and Mr. Papadopoulos.

Oh... and the Thompson Twins...

Thundering typhoons! Serkis is too weedy for Captain Haddock.

Nah... look at him in King Kong... he could pull it off!

My Dad should play Captain Haddock.

Failing that, Bobby De Niro (with a beard) because he looks like my Dad and was an adorable Captain in 'Stardust'.

I am a little disappointed that the man-child playing Tintin is not a ginge, though he was rather good in 'Doctor Who'.

Rowan Atkinson is a shoo-in for Calculas.

Mr Papadopoulos could be played by Omid Djalili. I know it blurs country and racial bounds, but he would be good.

The Thompson Twins should both be played by a CGI'd David Mitchell.

I thought he looked familiar . . .

The Thompson Twins should play the Thompson Twins, surely.