Tintin Tuesday: a panel from "The Broken Ear"

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Tintin Tuesday: a panel from "The Broken Ear"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Broken_Ear

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I thought it was neat how Ridgewell appeared so early in the series and then again near the end, around 40yrs later. I guess Chiang’s arc was similar, and Rasta’s even longer at ~55yrs.

Also a rare case of the album’s villains visibly meeting their maker, altho Hergé handled that like a champ IMO.

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When I read this as a kid I was like: who the heck says “Great Greedy Guts” anyway? To this day I have not yet heard it “in the wild” as an insult.

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In the original, the macaw says “gros plein d’soupe,” which means literally something like “big-full-soup,” or figuratively “fat slob.”

Kind of an interesting example of an earlier album being a bit rough around the edges in multiple ways. One, in not being a very fun expression / translation, and two in being directly mean-spirited, whereas Hergé would later come to be quite silly in terms of insults and put-downs.

What the hey, here’s the original page:
https://i.imgur.com/2Z4rsaL.jpeg

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