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 all. 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 "Tintinin 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 arein anything like my situation (that of being grown up but a big fan of Tintinin 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 all my life. I have read all the Tintin adventuresin my native language (finnish) & wanted to try finally 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 small the book was (should read more carefully the "Product details" heh). The book could fitin a pocket & therefore would be a good on travel. So, translations(Snowy)and dimensions(too small): -2 stars
