The Adventures of Tintin: Explorers on the Moon - Hergé
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The one that is out of this world The slow build-up of Destination Moon , slightly overburdened with technological background details taking precedence over the spy thriller elements, proves to be justified by the sheer brilliance, imagination, thrills and entertainment provided in the second part of the story which takes Tintin and his friends into genuinely new territory. Explorers on the Moon , in many ways, is Hergé at his very best. Consequently, having established the scientific principles of space flight in the opening book, there's little time wasted here in getting the rocket ship to the Moon. The story still has time before then however to explore some of the strange phenomenon of space flight, and it has considerable fun with weightlessness and extravehicular activity, mostly at the expense of Captain Haddock and his attempts to imbibe some contraband whiskey. There is some licence taken here, as there is with the eventual exploration of conditions on the moon, but it ha