Tintin Week 4

The funny thing about Tintin for me was that I never heard about the comic until after I watched a movie trailer of the 3D animation of it a while ago. Tintin was interesting to me because of the nicely drawn characters and environment as well as the occasional slapstick humor like sneezing very hard that everything felt it. I like how the young and heroic Tintin is paired up with an old and serious looking Captain Haddock. This is what I usually like to see in any story, contrast between main characters because it gives us something else to look at when we get bored of one character.

I personally thought that Captain Haddock had the most interesting character arc in the comic. He started out being a weak and heavy alcoholic, but later on he became a genuine hero after finding some treasures. Also the way he talks is funny because of the way he curses sometimes reminds me of Spongebob’s Mr. Krabs where they would take a sea related object and somehow turn it into an curse word like a dolphin’s laugh for example or in the case for Tintin it’s “Billions of Blue Blistering Barnacles”. I also found Tintin himself to be entertaining, but not as entertaining as Captain Haddock, probably because I like ocean/sea themed characters more.