The Adventures of Tintin

I had read The Adventures of Tintin comic book long time ago, when I was in college, from a friend who had one of many stories of Tintin.  I really enjoyed reading it and not all comic books are fun and engaging but this one was!  After so many years, me and my friend got in a conversation which led to the discussion of how we both liked The adventures of tintin comic books.  My friend had read all of its books but I had just read maybe one or two stories.  So without further delay, I went to the library and got Volume 2 & 3 of The Adventures of Tintin comic books where each book contained 3 stories.  Volume 2 has The broken ear, The black island, and King Ottokar's sceptre stories whereas Volume 3 has The crab with the golden claws, The shooting star, and The secret of the Unicorn.  I also found out that there is a cartoon series of his books which is also fun to watch and might be quick to finish up instead of book :P..hehe.  However, beware that the cartoon stories are slightly different from the book series.  In fact, one of the book series that I watched online "The shooting star" is compressed in small version of cartoon series with only 20 minutes whereas the book story covers a lot.  Also, I found out that there is Tintin's movie coming out this December (The secret of the Unicorn), and after watching the cartoon series of the story, I definitely want to go see the movie.

Let me tell you little bit about Tintin and why I enjoyed reading the book so much.  First of all, Tintin is a mystery solver, smart, and intelligent, but also someone who invites trouble to himself.  He has a loyal and equally intelligent dog, snowy, who saves him when he has put himself in worse situations!!  In fact, snowy has better sense of humor than Tintin :).  I don't know how this guy manages to land himself in the unexpected places and situations and also get out of it without a hiccup (well there are definitely hiccups, but it's funny how he manages it).  Also I like how the location of each of his stories is in different parts of the world and even places where ghosts will be scared to go :P, but he stays brave, strong, and goes to any limit to reach to the evidence with snowy, following his master, even though he doesn't agree with Tintin all the time, but that poor dog has no choice!!

Well that's just my 2 cents of reading Tintin's comic books.  I will probably get some more volumes of the book to read so I can finish the complete set of The Adventures of Tintin :).