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Summary: Historical masterpiece comic album
Written in 1936 , The Blue Lotus is the sequel to the colourful Cigars of the Pharaoh. In the Cigars of the Pharaoh , Tintin has almost succeeded in smashing an international gang of drug traffickers , managing to capture all of them except the leader who mysteriously crashes over a ravine.
His further investigations lead him to China , then under threat from Japanese agression.
Tintin comes up against a madman infected with a dart that sends the recipient insane , enraged British colonists out for revenge after having been humiliated by Tintin and the Japanese army , with the chief villain of the piece being Japanese businessman Mitsuhirato.
This album drew protest form the Japanese government of the time , and was praised by Chiang Kai Shek , President of the Republic of China.
However, it was banned by China's Communist regime until 1984 , due to some of their own insane Maoist reasoning-and even then was still chopped up and heavily edited.
Other albums having been banned by the Communist dictatorship in China where Tintin in tibet (for recognizing tibetan culture) , Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (for exposing Communism)and Tintin in the Congo ('Colonialist').
Summary: Tintin takes on a vast conspiracy and tries to keep from getting Shanghaied
The Blue Lotus is a sequel to Cigars of the Pharaoh, in which Tintin struggled with an international gang of smugglers in north Africa and India. In the current volume, the intrigue with the smugglers takes Tintin from India to Shanghai where his life is constantly in danger as the smugglers try to stop him from finding a cure for their secret poison of madness. There is a racial bias in this volume in favor of the Chinese of Shanghai over the British and Japanese who are portrayed as scheming and self-centered. Herg� must have sympathized with these colonized people who were being threatened by rising Japanese aggression.
Tintin's friendly adversaries, the twin Thompson brothers, detectives, make their appearance in this volume and there is a very funny scene where they try to disguise themselves as Chinese in pre-reform costumes and become the center of attention.
The heroes of the book are the elderly Wang and young Chang, two remarkably clever and resourceful allies.
This series is great at portraying the world between the two great wars in a way that is simple yet respectful. The adventures are well crafted and the color illustrations are sumptuous in detail. Shanghai really comes to life in this book with its opium dens, busy streets, and tea shops.
Summary: Les Aventures de Tintin at their goosebumpiest...
Picking up where its predecessor Cigars of the Pharaoh left off, The Blue Lotus (the fifth installment in the Adventures of Tintin series) chronicles boy reporter Tintin's adventures in Shanghai. It is notable for many reasons, particularly in that it introduces the character of Tintin's Chinese friend, Chang Chong-Chen, who is to figure prominently in an installment of the series much later on.
Masterfully drawn and beautifully suspenseful as always, The Blue Lotus is arguably the most chilling of the Tintin stories. He and Snowy seem to be in more peril here than in any other story with the possible exception of Tintin in America (the threat of their heads being chopped off rears its, uh, head more than once). Possibly not a bedtime story, this one, but it's a fantastic read.
There are two more notable things unique to this story. First of all, readers will most likely notice that Herge re-drew the first few pages (most likely to jive with the ending of Cigars of the Pharaoh, which had also been redone), and that Tintin undergoes a conspicuous metamorphosis from his later-edition, cuter self into an earlier, rounder-headed, pinprick-eyed version. Second, this story features Thomson and Thompson in Shanghai what they believe to be local street wear, and if for no other reason, one should peruse The Blue Lotus just for those few panels!
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