Tintin (23): Tintin og picaroene

by Herge

Blurb

Tintin and the Picaros is the twenty-third volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. It was the last Tintin adventure to be completed by Hergé, serialized in Tintin magazine in 1976.
Tintin and his friends are invited to San Theodoros by General Tapioca to clear themselves of accusations of working with Tintin's old friend, General Alcazar. Tintin declines the invitation, but his friends go only to be imprisoned. Tintin joins them and they all escape and join Alcazar and his rebels, the Picaros. After a successful revolution, Tintin and his friends fly home, seeing the country is no better off than before.
The book is notable for the changes made to many of the characters. Tintin no longer enjoys adventuring and has abandoned his trademark plus fours for bell-bottoms, Captain Haddock can no longer drink alcohol, and General Alcazar's masculinity is ridiculed by his new domineering wife.

First Published

1976

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