I’ve never read any Tin-Tin comic books before I took this class, though I’ve always recognized the character. For this reading I chose to read The Calculus Affair. I was pleasantly surprised by how serious; yet comical at times the story was portrayed. My initial reaction to the artwork was an expectation of a kiddie story. I did not expect attempts of murder from antagonists via bomb going off in a house and use of alcohol. Now, I’m not going to say these enhance the seriousness of a story, but it does help to a small level keep the story to seem like something that only kids could read.
Now, I found the artwork to be beautiful, but I felt a bit discouraged when some panels would literally be ¾ covered in speech balloons. I understand that in some scenes of the story the characters need to go through some conversations, which will further develop the plot, but I feel the overuse of this ruins the pacing and only slows down the drama when reading this comic book. I’d hope that instead, we could have seen more scenes like the one where they investigate the house where they find a tied up Professor Topolino. What was great about these sections is that we see a development of the plot through actions of characters rather than them sitting down at a table and simply just talking panel after panel with the exact same camera angle.
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