The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn - Hergé
The one that Spielberg is making into a film The Secret of the Unicorn marks the beginning of Tintin's adventures in their prime and Hergé at the top of his craft, and as such, it seems like as good a place as any to start Steven Spielberg's long cherished ambition to bring the young investigator to the screen. There are certainly strong and thrilling Tintin adventures prior to this - Cigars of the Pharaoh , The Broken Ear and King Ottokar's Sceptre - but they are patchy and episodic, only really looking their best when the artwork was redrawn years later by Hergé studios for the new 62-page album format. The purest Tintin adventures, and the best, are the mid-period double-length features, The Secret of the Unicorn & Red Rackham's Treasure , The Seven Crystal Balls & Prisoners of the Sun and Destination Moon & Explorers on the Moon . Like the other double-length adventures, The Secret of the Unicorn would appear to have the disadvantage of being th...