Customer Reviews
Not like the later Tintin books...or have I grown up too much? - By: Mr. Simon A. Macklin, 07 Jul 2008 
I loved Tintin when I was younger, something like a quarter century ago. To try to disprove the second part of my title, I reread some of my favourites, such as "The Black Island", "Land Of Black Gold" et al. & found I still thought they were great!
I think the review which criticises the dimensions of the book is a bit churlish; that isn`t my area of complaint at alll. I quite like the hardback format. Firstly, "...Soviets" is black & white & drawn rather too amateurishly for my liking. It`s tempting, as a reasonably talented artist, to redo the thing as it should be, in colour, & with Tintin not carrying about five stone of fat around his midriff! The story lacks the subtlety & humour that I expected too. Which leads me on to "...Congo". Definitely not easy reading through 2008 eyes, & whilst that isn`t Herge`s fault, the story isn`t great. You need to read it though - it`s a prequel to "Tintin in America", a story that whilst may not be one of the greatest, is still pretty good.
So, on balance, this is a purchase that you probably should make if you are in anything like my situation (that of being grown up but a big fan of Tintin in your youth), but if you are looking at this for your children, there are better ways of introducing one of the great graphic stories.
Pocket book - By: Skywalker, 12 Jun 2007 I have been a Tintin fan almost alll my life. I have read alll the Tintin adventures in my native language (finnish) & wanted to try finallly the english translations. I liked it more, in finnish translations, that Snowy is Milou. Why they didn't use Milou when it's the original name? I also didn't like how smalll the book was (should read more carefully the "Product details" heh). The book could fit in a pocket & therefore would be a good on travel. So, translations(Snowy)and dimensions(too smalll): -2 stars
