The Adventures of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets
| The Adventures of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Adventures of Tintin (Hardcover)) |
Manufacturer: Last Gasp of San Francisco
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 "Disappointing... from a die-hard Tintin fan." | 2008-07-20 |
| - Reviewed By eyesdriedopen |
First off Tintin is one of my all-time favorite book series. I used to read them as a kid and still have all them that were purchased nearly 30 years ago, and I'm looking forward to reading them to my son when he gets a little older. I accidentally discovered that this book was available, and bought it straight away.
I'm disappointed because that everything that makes Tintin a great read is not here. No story, no characters, no adventure. Just a series of should-be fatal accidents and hardly any dialogue. Frankly I don't care so much that the drawings are not as refined as the rest of the books. What does bother me is that the content of this book is so dumbed-down. I was a tedious read - so much so that I could barely finish it.
I gave it two stars instead of just one because it does have obvious collector value. If you're looking for an enjoyable read, in comparison to the other books, I would steer clear of this one. I wish I had. |
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 "Would recommend" | 2008-07-19 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2DD4C1GCDVB63 |
| this book was received in excellent condition. Ordering, shipping was a breeze, would highly recommend this seller, will purchase there again if the need arises. |
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| "Soviets, adventure, cromic" | 2008-01-30 |
| - Reviewed By readerviews |
Reviewed by Ben Weldon (age10) for Reader Views (1/08)
"Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" by Hergé is the comic adventure of Tintin and his loyal dog Snowy in Soviet Russia. Tintin, reporter for "Le Petit Vingtième," is sent to Soviet Russia to write about the situation there, but he is continually thwarted by Soviet agents. Will Tintin return alive with the truth about Soviet Russia?
In his efforts to penetrate Russia and observe the goings on, Tintin is bombed, shot at, chased, captured, stuck in sewage, encrusted in ice, and his vehicles are sabotaged. The Soviet secret police, who don't want Tintin to let the rest of the world knows what is going on in Russia, capture him and send him to the torture chamber. Snowy saves Tintin from the red hot poker, and Tintin saves Snowy from a wicked-looking sword. Hilariously, in the end, it is the torturer who is tortured. Tintin and Snowy repeatedly rely on their wit, resourcefulness and luck to outwit the evil agents.
This story first appeared in 1929 as a comic strip in a Belgian newspaper to alert people to the injustices occurring in Soviet Russia. In the story, Tintin discovers that the Soviet's "efficient" factories are really fakes. They are burning straw to make smoke and banging on pieces of metal to make it sound like there is operating machinery. Tintin also witnesses hungry orphans standing in a bread line. They have to state support for the communists or else they get kicked and get no bread. I am sure glad that I didn't live in Soviet Russia during this time period.
If you have ever read another Tintin book, you will be very surprised when you first get your hands on this book. The drawings are in black and white and are less detailed. The drawings are bigger and there are only six frames per page rather than the usual twelve. The book is longer, however, which more than makes up for less content per page. The story and humor are just as good as ever. This was Hergé's first book, so it is interesting to see how his characters changed.
I would highly recommend "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" to my friends because it is very funny and adventurous, and you can even learn a little bit about the history of Soviet Russia. This book was so good that I read it three times the day I got it!
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| "Not at all great but a must-have for a collector" | 2008-01-05 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2KNSB4ME91I9 |
| this was herge's first tintin. it's in b&w and very crude. the story is only so-so and expresses extreme bias against the soviets at that time, so if you're looking for a good read don't buy this book. it's a far far cry from his later works in everything from style to storyline. i'm keeping this just for my collection. |
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| "Enjoy it for what it is" | 2007-10-02 |
| - Reviewed By pregel6 |
Enjoy "Soviets" for what it is and forget the sanitized, one-size-fits-all, politically correct crap. Herge's Tintin tales (especially this one and "Congo") are historically valuable because they show what prejudices and cultural ideals prevailed at the time within a specific society. The stories are as good as any historical document. And, Herge doesn't need polite cleaning up, thank you very much. He was a man in touch with his time and tried to convey the tenor of his day (complete with warts) through the adventures of a boy and his dog. Because the stories were created by a cartoonist doesn't make them any less historically significant; one simply has toons instead of photos, talking balloons instead of under-photo captions.
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| "Must have for a complete Tintin collection" | 2007-08-07 |
| - Reviewed By User: A9CECE7N0GBKP |
Written in 1929 as a children's daily comic strip The Adventures of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets is dated and clearly anti-Communist propaganda, but that's what makes it so interesting and amusing.
The pacing is different from the subsequent graphic Tintin novels due to the constraints of the daily comic strip "cliff-hanger" format. This format can be wearing if you read it straight through. Drawing is in black and white and, IMHO, very effective and in some ways superior to he colour editions because more time is spent on the black-and-white, pen-and-ink drawings than in those for colour. The hardcover book by Casterman is of a good quality.
Snowy the dog is much more sardonic and critical of his master (which I liked). Tintin is not as well-defined in this first of the Tintin series and is somewhat wooden - but that is not unusual for a serial character in an early episode. Tintin is drawn differently than in the later books and looks kind of empty. Again I liked Snowy, he looks more Terrier-like and has more of a personality than in the later novels. Tintin is captured and beat up more frequently and is even shown as drunk. His language is also subtly different from subsequent novels. Particularly interesting are Herge's depiction of the uniforms of the times and people. Cossacks, peasant, Soviet military, Prussians, border guards, etc.
Satisfying. A must for a complete collection of all of the adventures of Tintin.
If you like this genre you really should check out the Lucky Luke series by Goscinny (of Asterix and Obelix fame)and Morris. |
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 "Archival value, but not as enduring as the canonical works." | 2007-04-13 |
| - Reviewed By xterminalx |
Herge, The Adventures of Tintin, Reporter for Le Petit Vingtieme, in the Land of the Soviets (Last Gasp, 1929)
The very first Tintin strip, brought back into print by Last Gasp a few years ago, is presented here in a wonderfully-put-together oversized book. It will come as a shock to some fans of the series, seeing the original Tintin strips; remember that Herge went back and redrew everything from Tintin in America forward for the Methuen books we're so used to in America, and it all looks like sixties- and seventies-era Tintin these days. Not so Land of the Soviets, which is art-deco-primitive, the characters in some panels almost suggested rather than discrete. The plot, too, is far more obviously that of a serial strip; it is, in fact, almost plotless, simply Tintin and Snowy getting into and out of a series of scrapes. (This feeling is exacerbated by the fact that Land of the Soviets is over twice as long as the standard sixty-four pages Herge settled on later in his career.) Still, if you're a Tintin fan, this is an invaluable document. *** |
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| "Crudely drawn, Tintin's first book has some historical interest" | 2006-12-27 |
| - Reviewed By andreskarlos |
| Written by Herge in 1929 (when he was in his early 20s) in episode form for Le Petite Vingtieme, the children's section of a right wing Belgian newspaper, the first volume of Tintin (shown in facsimile form) has some interest mainly for historical reasons. The drawings, for one, are extremely crude. Many eight year olds could have drawn it better. The story's visceral anticommunism is also over the top (though it includes an interesting subplot about the struggle between the soviet regime and the kulaks, which would end tragically in the early 30s in Ukraine with the man made famine or Holodomor). A good scene showing english communists marveled at the achievements of a potemkin soviet factory pokes fun at the naivete of the European communists in regard to the Soviet Union - a naivete that would last decades. The story is generally clumsy, with Tintin having hair rising escapes from sure death in almost every page. This was the only Tintin's story not to be redrawn in colour, and it was out of print for more than 40 years, so clearly Herge was somewhat embarrassed by it. By his next volume, Tintin in Congo, Herge would have developed his trademark clear line style, though the story of that book remained clumsy, not to mention its ardent pro colonialism. I think it was only by his fifth book, The Blue Lotus, that Herge's work rose above the crudity of his early books. |
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| "Early Tintin" | 2006-12-04 |
| - Reviewed By User: AAEP8YFERQ8FC |
Tintin and his dog Snowy are off to report on what life is like in Russia, but there are many who do not want him to report anything, and are out to stop him through trickery and sabotage. Will he be able make it there and back?
"Tintin in the Land of the Soviets" was the first Tintin comic Herge wrote back in 1929, when he was 22 years old. The pictures haven't been redone or coloured, so the style is exactly how it was published in the 1920s, and it's interesting to see what Tintin used to look like, particularly in the very first frames he appears in. This adventure has been pretty hard to find, and it's nice to now have it in English.
It's a pretty fun adventure I thought, and though it's an early one, there's a lot of elements that make up Tintin adventures already in place (a scene where Snowy accidentally gets drunk, an incident with chloroform, a car chase or two, etc). Snowy's character is pretty much as it is in the later stories too, his look and the sort of comments he likes to make.
It's worth a look for Tintin fans, I think.
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 "Tintin deserves a pullitzer prize" | 2006-05-11 |
| - Reviewed By timinsydney |
The first adventure of the comic book hero Tintin, written by Belgian Herge, went to press in 1929. The dynamic ever young reporter (who never seems to actually file any stories) heads off for Stalin country in `TinTin in the land of the Soviets'.
"Tintin and his dog Milou [Snowy] board a train for Moscow. There Tintin spends his time denouncing the methods of the Communist Party and then avoiding attempts by the Soviet secret police to silence him for his views. By the time Tintin makes it back home word of his exploits has arrived ahead of him and he is greeted as a hero."
This volume is not the best in the Tintin series in terms of it's storyline or artwork. It may however be the most historically significant.
Whilst Tintin, a fictitious comic book reporter, was exposing Stalinism in the comic book realm, over in the real world, famous journalists were winning Pulitzer Prizes for painting false benevolent images of this tyrannical regime. One award winning journalist actually landed a plum interview with the Great Helmsman himself in 1929, presumably about the same time as TinTin's train was pulling in to Moscow. Today the Pullitzer Prize based upon that journalist's rose coloured reports of Stalin's Russia are now being challenged posthumously by the Ukrainian community.
Tintin is today about 75 years young. Maybe they should award the Pulitzer to Tintin. |
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