Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Tintin, #1)

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Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Tintin #1)

by Hergé, Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper (Translator), Michael Turner (Translator)

3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 · rating details · 4,926 ratings · 159 reviews

In his debut adventure, Tintin is pursued by Bolshevik agents trying to prevent him from exposing the new Soviet regime. Punctuated by slapstick and political revelations, this story is based on the writings of an anticommunist Belgian ex-consul to the Ukraine. Herge's early style revealed strong graphics, influenced by photo-reporting from the period, marking the historic...more

Hardcover, 120 pages

Published March 1st 2003 by Last Gasp (first published 1929)

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Apr 09, 2013 Marko rated it 2 of 5 stars

Se eka Tintti.

Luin 7-vuotiaalle pojalleni albumin suomenkielisen version "Tintti neuvostojen maassa". Tämä oli myös minulle ensimmäinen lukukerta.

Albumi on ainoa ensimmäisistä 8 tai 9:stä alunperin mustavalkoisena ja yli satasivuisena tehdyistä albumeista, joka on jätetty alkuperäiseen muotoonsa - ja se näkyy. Aika on ajanut albumin ohi totaalisesti. Piirrosjälki on hirveää, poliittinen propaganda on rasittavaa, juonta ei ole ja vitsit ovat huonoja. Lisäksi albumi on välillä aika julma ja siinä...more

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Mar 07, 2013 Helmut Barro rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Frühwerk, spät veröffentlicht

Das wird manchem nicht gefallen: Dieser Titel ist einfach, und ganz besonders im Vergleich mit den anderen "Tim und Struppi"-Titeln, schlecht. Als Leser eines Unterhaltungsmediums interessiert mich nicht, ob es eventuell ein "zeitgeschichtliches Dokument" ist oder nicht. Ich liebe diese Comicreihe; trotzdem sollte man so ehrlich sein, und nicht, nur weil man die anderen Titel einer Reihe mag, diesen Band überbewerten.

Die Zeichnungen sind weit entfernt von dem, was He...more

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Nov 27, 2012 Indah Threez Lestari rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: children, in-english

Polling BBI bulan November 2012 membuatku terbelah antara keinginan ikut posting bareng novel 10 besar KLA 2012 (demi memaksa diri sendiri lebih banyak membaca karya sastra Indonesia) dan ikut posting bareng Tintin (secara sudah niat baca ulang serial Tintin setelah membaca Tintin The Complete Companion-nya Michael Farr).

Sejatinya, buatku novel KLA 2012 lebih mudah didapatkan, tinggal cari di toko buku atau Indonesian Book Fair kemarin. Tapi serial Tintin...? Kalau teringat bundelan koleksi Tint...more

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Aug 25, 2012 Keely rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: franco-belgian, comics, euro-comics, humor, adventure, reviewed

It can be an odd experience to look at the early work of an author (and artist) who later proves to be innovative and masterful. The work here is sou rough, the plotting so silly, and the characters unrecognizable to fans of the later series.

But then, no artist emerges into the world fully formed, and even Moebius had his awkward stage. In this fisrt story, Tintin himself is less the clever, charming figure of the later books. Much like Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie, the character starts off...more

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Jan 19, 2012 Mark O'Neill rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: adventure, comics, fiction

This first book in the Tintin collection was written about a couple of decades before the other ones. Therefore it is a LOT different from the other books to the point where you don't really recognise it as Tintin as all. Therefore this book is really only for completing your collection.[return][return]The thing that really nagged me about this book was that Tintin was portrayed as a bit of an a**hole but the Russians were portrayed as much worse. Tintin was always seen as getting the upper hand...more

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Nov 11, 2011 Kaung Myat Han rated it 2 of 5 stars

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I found out about Tintin when I was like twenty years old. Of course, I have always been familiar with that adorable image of him often in a simple blue sweater, a white shirt and redpants with that strange little hairdo and the awesome sidekick, the little white dog. It's just that I didn't exactly know what his name was or what the cartoon was all about as I had never read 'The Adventures of Tintin' in English, let alone French. Strange but then again, it's not very strange either since Tintin...more I found out about Tintin when I was like twenty years old. Of course, I have always been familiar with that adorable image of him often in a simple blue sweater, a white shirt and redpants with that strange little hairdo and the awesome sidekick, the little white dog. It's just that I didn't exactly know what his name was or what the cartoon was all about as I had never read 'The Adventures of Tintin' in English, let alone French. Strange but then again, it's not very strange either since Tintin is so popular maybe I caught him somewhere perhaps on a TV during my childhood days.

But the thing is, Tintin was never big in my country which is Myanmar(Burma) by the way. I guess it's pretty safe to say it is still a relatively obscure comics to this day compared to say comics like Archie. I still remember that this school I went to had a well-stocked library(probably the best in the country) and in the junior section, the shelves were stacked with several Archie comics but no Tintin comics, not even a single volume! I became acquainted with the Belgian comics character, Tintin and Snowy(Milou in French) only when I attended French language school. I was surprised at how excited I was to flip through the pages of the comics with astonishing colors and whatnot. Once again, I felt like some kid ready to embark on an adventurous journey. I read several French comics series and the only other comics which can compete with Tintin is, in my opinion, 'The Adventures of Asterix'. Pretty much awesome too, I must say. Full-stop here. Let's get back to Tintin's first volume which is 'The Adventures of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets'. In 1929, Belgian artist Georges Rémi (1907–1983)using the pen name Hergé drew this very first and original Tintin comics to appear in 'Le Petit Vingtieme' which was a children's supplement for the newspaper that he was working for which was 'Le XXe Siècle'. The rest's history, of course! I read the English language edition, not the French one.

The story-line(if there is one) is politically motivated and biased against the Russians(at times, it's even severely critical of them) and from the start to the the very end, Tintin is chased by communist Russians or the Bolsheviks. It's even a bit complex for me to understand so I wonder how children would interpret to gain understanding of it. Without understanding, enjoyment would not be there. This is not to say that you have to be an expert on the Russian history. What I am trying to say is that the first volume 'The Adventures of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets' was just ok. I didn't like it because it's very outdated now. Surely, it fails the test of time, does it not? True classics can always stand the test of time. They would never become outdated. But in those days, the comics was far from outdated. It reflected how conservative Europe regarded the radical changes taking place in Soviet Russia. I'm sure they would scare the crap out of the old conservative politicians of England and France who shunned any changes whether political or social.'The Adventures of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets' is in black and white and what's more, it will not go very easy on the eyes since the images are inferior and weak-looking compared to the later volumes which are in vivid colors.

I would have definitely enjoyed this volume more provided there were less political overtones/propaganda)and more character developments. Oh, I'm not saying that Communism is good by the way. We have to bear in our minds that this comics was targeted to kids and young adults when it first came out. Not some college graduates. I wonder what was Hergé thinking about when he was drawing this and what his real intentions were- to entertain kids or to brainwash them with anti-communist statements? Anyway, anyway, not all Tintin's comics volumes are not like this. I heard later volumes are much more light-hearted and enjoyable to read compared to this very first one. So, let the fun begins as now I'm going to Congo with Tintin and Snowy!

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Nov 02, 2009 Justwinter rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics, own

Recently picked up this first Tintin adventure, one I'd never read as a child.

I'll just say that by the time readers have made it to Tintin's 4th adventure Cigars of the Pharaoh, he's in full swing as the reporter we know and love--strongly drawn with terrific backgrounds, gripping stories and a decent personality. The first three books are interesting to look at and read if for no other reason than to see the developing style and talent of their creator, Herge.

The drawing is done in simple blac...more

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May 25, 2009 htanzil rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Komik ini merupakan kisah pertama petualangan Tintin selaku wartawan "Le Petit Vingtieme" yang dibuat oleh Herge. Dari petualangan pertamanya di Rusia inilah kelak komik seri Petualangan Tintin terus dibuat hingga mencapai 24 kisah yang mengajak pembacanya berkelana ke berbagai belahan dunia sambil menyelidiki berbagai kasus menarik bersama anjing setianya Milo(Snowy) dan beberapa sahabatnya seperti Kapten Haddock, Thomson & Thompson, Prof Calculus, dll.

Dalam petualangan pertamanya ini Tinti...more

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Feb 04, 2012 David Sarkies rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I feel a little ashamed putting this book up on the list namely because it is the first time that I have read it, and I also scanned it into Goodreads as a reading-now book, which then goes onto my reading total for the year. I am not entirely sure whether one can consider graphic novels to be a book that one read, particularly since it generally does not talk all that long to read them. However, with any further Tintin books that I read, while they will appear on the sight, I will try not to l...more I feel a little ashamed putting this book up on the list namely because it is the first time that I have read it, and I also scanned it into Goodreads as a reading-now book, which then goes onto my reading total for the year. I am not entirely sure whether one can consider graphic novels to be a book that one read, particularly since it generally does not talk all that long to read them. However, with any further Tintin books that I read, while they will appear on the sight, I will try not to list them as books read this year (particularly since this is the only Tintin book that I haven't actually read).
This was the first Tintin book ever published, but it did not appear in English until after Herge's death. It was suggested that Herge was embarrased by this book (as with Tintin in the Congo), and it is not hard to see why. As far as Tintin goes, the artwork is in black and white and very basic. Some have suggested that in this story Tintin is quite arrogant, though I never picked this up off of him. What I did notice was that he was determined to do something about the Soviets, but it seemed that Herge got to a point where he had to finish it off, and further, he could not have such an Earth shattering ending, especially since the Soviet empire did not collapse until 1989.
We learn a lot about Tintin in the book though. The others in the series are very vague about where he comes from (it is suggested that in the English versions he lives in London, but I always found that difficult to accept since in The Black Island, he travels by see to England), but in this story we learn that he is from Brussels and works as an investigative reporter for La Petit Vingnette. His job is to travel to the Soviet Union to report on the situation in the country. From the beginning he is being tracked by Ogpu (forrunner of the KGB) agents, and in his investigations he discovers that the whole Soviet system is a lie.
The first indication is when he sees a factory that is being showed off to some British communists, and discovers upon investigating the factory, that it is an empty shell that has fires burning under the smokestacks and some guy repeatedly banging an iron sheet. We are taken to an election where are list of candidates are put forward, but the communists point guns at the peasants and tell them to vote for the communists. Finally Tintin stumbles on an underground base where food and other exportables are being stored for export so that while people in the country are starving, it appears to the outside that the Soviet Union is a highly productive country.
This last idea reminds me of a picture I saw one. It was of a African child, living in poverty, and holding a plate of food while sitting on a box marked 'for export only'. This picture was drafted as a criticism of capitalism where food is sold to only those who can pay, and those who can't are left to die of starvation. It is believed in some circles that WTO (World Trade Organisation) rules stipulate that a country's best produce must be exported before there is distribution to the people. While there is endless debate about the availability of food, it is my position that there is a lot of food in then world, enough to feed everybody, it is just most of it lands up on supermarket shelves, and then slowly makes its way to the bin.
Tintin does get a lot better the further on one reads, and I do feel that the first few books are lacking the magic that the other stories are famous for. However, this is the beginning of a series that showly developed into a cult following. I do not really consider this particular story racist (others are actually quite racist, particularly Tintin in the Congo), but more very critical of the Soviet regime. However, there is no difference between the ways that the Soviets ran their government and the way Mugabe runs his. However the big difference is that the Soviets put man into space, where as Mugabe simply put men into the ground.(less)

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Jan 19, 2012 Martyn rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: No-one, not even Tintin fans

Shelves: 2012, fiction, graphic-novels, kids, room101, à-l-origine-en-français

This was so horrible that I'm worried that my review will sound like the typical 'looking at the past through a modern lens' type of thing, which I can’t stand.

I hope my reaction is not based in the clumsy political propaganda that the book exhibits, that is obviously one of the reasons for the book being written in the first place (it was commissioned for the purpose of distorting the negativity of life in Soviet Russia). Nor, I hope, is it based in the poor humor – I get that language, humor a...more This was so horrible that I'm worried that my review will sound like the typical 'looking at the past through a modern lens' type of thing, which I can’t stand.

I hope my reaction is not based in the clumsy political propaganda that the book exhibits, that is obviously one of the reasons for the book being written in the first place (it was commissioned for the purpose of distorting the negativity of life in Soviet Russia). Nor, I hope, is it based in the poor humor – I get that language, humor and audience expectations were much different back then.

I think that there are enough clunky moments in this book and things that should not have gotten past an editor in any age, that it is possible to criticize it for being a rush job and for being crap to the point of stupidity and not fall pray to simply misunderstanding the age that the book was written in.

For one example (out of many) look to the scene early on where Tintin makes a car that will ride on train tracks out of a bunch of scrap metal that just happens to be waiting by the track, he’s a genius crows Snowy. Only he isn’t because later in the book Tintin takes a whole motor car apart only to find that the problem is a flat tire, Snowy points out ironically that “you’re not much of a mechanic Tintin” when he can't get the parts back into the car again. Wait a second here. I thought this was some weird early nineteen hundreds joke at first but no, not twenty pages later and Tintin is making a rotor blade for his crashed plane out of a tree that he’s cut down with a penknife – back to being a genius again! This sort of thing makes me quite distraught.

After I read it I found out that Herge himself hated the first two Tintin stories and tried to have them written out of his personal history. He succeeded for a long time with this one, managing to prevent its printing for years. He also had no intention of using Tintin again, he never thought that the character would become so popular, and so he dashed this off without a second thought. These facts alone tell me that it's ok to dislike this book. It really has very little to do with the later Tintin stories (thankfully) and so can be treated as a weird first step for an author who didn’t know what fate had in store.
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May 02, 2011 Hayes rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Let's see if my French is up to this...

There were just a few words that I had to look up, so I'm quite proud of myself, actually. The story was simple enough, and highly improbable, but it's a comic strip, right? And the very first ones: "Originally serialised in the Belgian children's newspaper supplement Le Petit Vingtième between 10 January 1929 and 11 May 1930, it was subsequently published in book form in 1930."

It is all highly unlikely, as I said, but it was "designed to be a work of anti...more

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Jun 12, 2010 John rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: french, bibliotheque, graphic-novel

This is the first of the Tintin books, first released in 1930, and the only one to never appear in colour. As such, it has a very different feel to the others in the series - Tintin is not drawn as distinctly, the plot is fragmented, and it's almost as silly as "Tintin Au Congo". However at the time Hergé was drawing for the readers of the Petit Vingtième - by 1934 Tintin was an international success and was consequently drawn for a different audience.

I won't describe the plot, as any regular r...more

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Feb 13, 2013 Neville Ridley-smith rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is mostly just about historical interest - which is quite fascinating all by itself! We see the beginnings of Tintin and some of the early germs of ideas that were used later. Even within this book we see development. There's a marked difference between the Tintin and Snowy drawn in the first panel compared with their depiction towards the end.

As for the story itself - well it's quite ridiculous. It's mostly a bunch of random escapades - due to it being a weekly serial where Herge said "I o...more

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Dec 26, 2011 Michael rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic, from-the-french

Herge' didn't realize that his Tintin character was going to become a big deal when his boss told him to create a work of anti-Soviet propaganda for children. Apparently he didn't put much effort or thought into it, and was pretty embarrassed by it once his character and career started to take off, refusing to render a color version and keeping the original black and white version from being reprinted for as long as he could. Well, he was right to be embarrassed; "Land of the Soviets" is painful...more

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Jan 02, 2008 mirna rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: herge

here... snowy has so much dialogs & a big role too!! & tintin himself, is a superhero... an invincible, totally cartoon!! not only boom & bullet proof, but survive from any crash and can fight anything from men to polar bear with his own barehand...

multi talented tintin, from mechanic to woodcarving but not a good driver in land, water & air... but never run out of luck!!

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Apr 28, 2012 Kim rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: action, adventure, childrens, classic, comic, disliked, foreign, humour, historical, political, male-author, 1920s

After finally watching the new Tintin movie last night I thought it would be good to take a walk down memory lane and reread all the comics. I found that I'd never read the very first book (or I couldn't remember it) and I have to say that if this was my introduction I would never have continued reading them.

This first Tintin book was written between 1929-1930 for the right-wing newspaper Hergé was working for. It was written to be an anti-communist propaganda piece for children. In it Tintin is...more

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Aug 02, 2011 Dan rated it 5 of 5 stars

The Tintin stories for anyone who has read them and understands their history can't be viewed as anything other than groundbreaking. The beginnings of these stories have been around as long as the Lord of the Rings, the illustration and environments in the Tintin books are accurate and extremely detailed. Anyone who has spent even a little time exploring Herge (Georges Remi) can see the painstaking research and adversity he worked through to compose the world around Tintin. His ideas were ahead...more

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Dec 20, 2012 Haritha rated it 2 of 5 stars

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Tintin brings back very sweet memories of my childhood in Trivandrum, where I spent hours on end at the Public Library. It is only recently that I came to know about the existence of these earlier stories before Tintin develops into the character that he is and will always be remembered by.

The Land of the Soviets is in black and white and the illustrations are very rough and cartoon-like. The anti-communist propaganda is very much in your face. To someone who is used to reading the later storie...more

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Mar 13, 2012 Chloe Lackey rated it 3 of 5 stars

I have wanted to get into the world of comics for a long time, and I found the art style of Tintin very appealing. I'd been looking for this particular story as I'm a stickler for chronological order, but I eventually found it in a small comic book shop.

It was definitely an amusing read, but I can tell it's drastically different from the rest of the series, not only in art style but in the writing. It seems as though Herge was testing the waters before he started out, and he made a fair shot. Th...more

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Nov 30, 2011 Nina rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: adventure, comics

Warning: This review may contain spoilers.

I had recently watched the film adaptation of Tintin. It made me interested in the comics. I used to have one comic book of Tintin's, but I never really got to appreciate it, seeing as I was quite young when I got it.

This is apparently the first Tintin adventure that there is. It's in black and white and has a different art style. The plot involves the Soviet Union, as seen from the title itself. In here, Tintin reminded me of Popeye in here. He was invi...more

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Nov 16, 2011 Jeffery Moulton rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011-books, graphic-novel

Tintin was my first real introduction to comics as a kid. I discovered some of his later adventures in my 4th grade teacher's library and have always looked back on them fondly. With the movie coming out soon, I told my wife about my love of Tintin stories and so ah bought me the first four as a birthday gift.

This book is the first story about the intrepid reporter and his dog. It lacks in detail and many of the conventions of the later stories. It is also more propaganda than later tales would...more

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Nov 15, 2011 Lady Knight rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 20th-c, childrens, graphic-novel, historical-fiction, northern-europe, regional-library, teen, war, adult, humour, central-europe

Having grown up loving Tintin's adventures, I was rather surprised to come across one that I missed reading when I was younger.

This is definitely not nearly as strong as what comes after it... this is much more slapstick, Tintin's intelligence is not particularly high, and Snowy talks as much as Tintin does. This was all qutie strange for me, as was the style used for the illustrations... very simplistic with bold black lines on a white background. However, Tintin is still the beloved investiga...more

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Mar 30, 2013 Lars Jensen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

En værdig debut, fuld af surrealistisk energi. Hergé var forud for sin tid allerede i sit første album, der var en bestillingsværk for det højreorienterede blad, han arbejdede for, da han opfandt Tintin.
Hen mod slutningen begynder Tintin at ligne sig selv efterhånden som Hergé fik et bedre greb om sin figur. Det samme gælder Terry, der dog her har lovlig mange menneskelige egenskaber.
Senere blev nogle af Tintins karaktertræk fordelt på andre figurer. Man skal lige vende sig til at Kaptajn Haddoc...more

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Feb 28, 2013 Usama Albastaki rated it 1 of 5 stars

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I am always hungry to read more and more of Tin Tin stories. I am even so addicted that I read the story frequently. I started reading Tin Tin when I was 12 years old and I never stopped even if I am 33 years old now!

Luckily Tin Tin in Soviet land was not the first of Tin Tin adventures that I read, otherwise I stopped! The worse of all adventures with so much of unneeded attack on communists that it reach racist level against Russians! As I finished reading it I had doubt, is it really Herge wh...more

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Mar 07, 2013 Andrea Ika rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: children-books, comic

Tintin di Soviet adalah kisah pertama dari wartawan berjambul asal Belgia, Tintin. Berbeda dengan kisah-kisah Tintin lainnya yang penuh warna, Tintin di Soviet tampil dalam kemasan hitam-putih. Inilah kisah yang pertama kali membuat Tintin dikenal di dunia. Uniknya, Herge selaku penulis cerita Tintin bahkan tidak pernah mengunjungi Soviet.

Alkisah, wartawan surat kabar Belgia, Tintin bersama anjing kesayangannya Milo (Snowy?) ditugaskan untuk pergi ke Soviet guna mengumpulkan informasi tentang ne...more

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Feb 09, 2013 Jonathan rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, graphic-novel, history

The first ever Tintin, appearing in the Belgian newspaper Le Petit Vingtième as anti-Soviet propaganda. The book shows a less sophisticated style, possibly Hergé hadn't developed his classic approach yet, and possibly the newspaper medium required a less sophisticated hand (and perhaps less sophisticated printing technology, although I don't know that). The book unequivocally portrays the Russian communists as evil: starving their own people while cunningly using surplus grain, etc, as propagand...more

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Oct 10, 2010 Merry rated it 2 of 5 stars

I've just started to go back and re-read the Tintin books in order. Read them all as a kid, and for years I had pictures on my walls. LOVE Herge's artwork.

This is a really strange comic: Herge was writing propaganda, and it's hilariously over the top! Factories are just a facade and some dudes banging metal on metal, and elections are rigged by villains with mustaches.

It's weird to think that the series came from this, and I reckon this is the worst story just because there is no ambiguity in an...more

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Aug 16, 2012 Isabel rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favourites

I really really enjoyed this book! Even though it is black and white illustrations/writing it is still amazing, so don't judge the book by that! I recommend this book/series to anyone who enjoys graphic novels and who is a fan of Tintin like me!

Herge does a really good job of making this book a 'page turner'. He also makes it very enjoyable and entertaining to read!
This book is when Tintin and Snowy are sent over to 'The Soviet Union (as it was known back then)' to report anything suspicious...more

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Oct 27, 2010 Sammy rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: comic

My review, as posted in Tintin Books

The perils of this album are well-documented: written before Herge awoke to a wider worldview, and when he was still a pencil for hire, this is a propaganda piece and nothing more. Tintin as a reporter is an Everyman thrust into a land of corrupt politicians, and evil overlords.

To me, there's something messily beautiful about Herge's boyish scrawl. It's not polished, true, but that pudgy little potato boy and his scruffy dog make for delightful heroes, even if...more

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May 01, 2012 Cliff rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels

So, this is the first of the Tintin stories and unfortunately, it suffers from age and lack of experience. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to this first story apart from having Tintin constantly having to escape from one Russian agent or another. I'm sure this was very much more interesting nearly 80 years ago, but this one does not hold up. My issue is that Tintin is at times a stunningly good pugilist and then a glass-jawed nincompoop. He's both Inspector Clouseau and James Bond rolled in...more

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Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist.
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Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Tintin #1)

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