The Adventures of Tintin: Tintin and the Lake of Sharks - Hergé
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The one that isn’t by Hergé Just in case it’s not obvious, this is not one of the official Adventures of Tintin series by Hergé, but rather an album based on the original 1972 animated film Tintin and the Lake of Sharks , scripted by Greg (Michel Régnier). A look inside the album will certainly reveal that this isn’t drawn by Hergé or his studio, the book derived rather from animation cels with a great deal more detail in the backgrounds and richness in the colouration. The album also only runs to 44 pages rather than the standard 62 pages of a regular Tintin adventure. So, it’s certainly not Hergé, but is it Tintin? Well, in a way, yes, but only because the story uses familiar characters and puts them through certain situations that are taken straight from other Tintin adventures. The story opens up with the theft and switch of an object from a museum that is almost identical to the opening of The Broken Ear , while the conflict between Borduria and Syldavia from King Ottokar’s Sceptr