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The one where Tintin is abducted by aliens (and Hergé too) Although like any Tintin book there are certainly points to recommend about it, like most of the later Tintin books, Flight 714 to Sydney suffers from there being rather too much going on. Unlike the earlier Tintin books however, it’s not just that the storyline here takes on rather a lot and relies heavily on coincidences, or that it is overpopulated by the familiar and growing cast of regular characters, but what is unfortunate is that even Hergé’s beautiful clear-line artwork becomes rather messy and overly-cluttered here for the first time.  The characteristics that make the best Tintin adventures are however still to be found here. There’s no shortage of adventure in the storyline, which as usual starts off innocently enough as Tintin, Captain Haddock and Calculus stopping off in Djakarta on their way on Flight 714 for a conference in Sydney. An encounter with an old friend Skut introduces them however to eccentric mi...