Les blistering barnacles
29 March 2004. Inspired by .
"Herge created 23 Tintin adventures, which have been translated into 51 languages" says the BBC, showing a panel in French to prove its point.
Surely the previous panel in English would have proved it a little more accurately?
PS Did anyone ever see any of the supposed cub reporter's journalism? Was he a high-society gossip columnist or perhaps a fly-by-night cricket correspondent? Was Thompson his Deep Throat? Or was it Thompson? Was Haddock merely the pushy PR for Loch Lomond whisky? How much hair gel did his quiff really need? And surely they should have promoted him from mere cub at some point in his adventures? I think we should be told.