The Adventures of Tintin: Explorers on the Moon
Explorers on the Moon is science fiction in the sense that humankind had not reached the moon at the time when Tintin and his friends first set foot there. It’s a crew formed of characters we’ve come to know and love from the previous books in the series and it great to see them shoulder the burden of an epic collective task, even if they’re not the best suited to the job. Probably not the smartest plan to bring a dog and an alcoholic along, and that’s before a pair of clinically inept identical detectives reveal themselves to have stowed away. Still, hilarity prevails, even when Captain Haddock drunkenly casts himself adrift in space. That said, it’s definitely the darkest storyline of Hergé’s enduring creation, with several moments of real tragedy which test our pure and plucky hero as well as this strange, adopted family. Would like to think I’m Tintin, but I’m probably more Captain Haddock these days.
