Tintin by Hergé - Review

What I loved about Tintin in Tibet by Hergé was how filled with plot the comic was. It was very long, but the story was so interesting to me that I didn't want to stop reading. This comic follows Tintin on his long journey to find his friend Chang, who supposedly died in an plane crash in a very dangerous place in the mountains. Reading this comic felt like like an adventure from beginning to end, I almost felt like I was watching a movie. Even though every panel simply has the characters interacting with each other, there was a good amount of intensity sprinkled onto their situations in their journey that heavily develops the world building and the characters' personalities. In terms of art, what I found very odd was how cartoony Tintin looks compared to a lot of the other characters in the comic. Many background and side characters have more humanlike features like various noses and hairstyles, and then you see little Tintin with his cute round face, dotted eyes, rosy cheeks, and orange tuft of hair. A part of me feels like he was drawn this way to put emphasis on him, or perhaps create an attractive main character so you can't help but root for him during his adventures. The latter is definitely one main reason why I thoroughly enjoyed reading the comic. Seeing him surrounded by seemingly normal human beings almost makes me think of him as a foreign character to them, or everyone else is foreign to Tintin, but I may be overthinking it a little bit.