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What's your pick for the best Tintin book never written? I've always thought a "Tintin in the Levant" sounded good and being an Antipodean the thought of "Tintin in New Zealand" makes me smirk a bit. Imagine Tintin outwitting Rastapopoulos on a high country sheep station and Thompson and Thompson turning up in All Black outfits.

Any other ideas?

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What about 'Tintin in Atlantis' or 'Tintin in Germany' - a cold war story with Tintin as a spy.

I’d like to have seen Hergé attempt a ‘time travel’ adventure. E.P. Jacobs managed one with his Blake and Mortimer book “Le piège diabolique”, but I always thought Hergé could have done a better job with the concept.

We might have had Tintin and Snowy travelling back to Marlinspike Hall, some 300 years or so in the past, encountering the newly installed Sir Francis Haddock (just as he’s having his portrait painted?) and setting off on a partly sea-faring adventure, perhaps on the trail of some ruthless buccaneers.

And of course, the regular cast wouldn’t be missed if ancestral equivalents of themselves took their place; I’d have had Calculus as an Isaac Newton-type alchemist/inventor, the Thom(p)sons as bungling cavalry officers and awarded the Milanese Nightingale a peerage, Viscontessa perhaps.

What about Tintin adventures involing the supernatural, stuff like vampires, werewovles, ghosts, and goblins, and also fantasy stuff like dragons, faires, elves,mermaids, and wizards.

It would be like "The T Files" or "Tintin the vampire slayer" or a dungons and dragons thing like "Tourtares and Terrors"

This also brings up an interasting question, since Tintin is the kind of really nice guy who spares the life of his enimes, would Tintin still be able to bring himself to slay a dragon or drive a wooden stake though a vampire(which is of coures how you kill a vampire).

So basicaly, would Tintin make a good dragon slayer or vampire slayer?

A Tintin adventure in Australia would be awesome. As long as it didn't have the ridiculous animal or opal smuggling operation cliches! (lol)

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As long as it didn't have the ridiculous animal or opal smuggling operation cliches! (lol)

“What’s that Skippy? The smugglers have pushed Tintin down an opal mine? Blistering digeridoos - where’s my wombat?”

Blistering digeridoos - where’s my wombat?

“What...? They've kidnapped him? Bandicoot-brained boomerang benders!”

I love the idea of an Australian adventure! Given the occasional penchant the Captain shows in the books for attracting the attentions of the local fauna, there could also be some good potential for comedy business with the lethal wildlife out there!

How about a return to America, this time to the West Coast, in Tintin In Hollywood? After the Moon adventure, he's pretty much a World famous celebrity in the Tintinverse, so maybe a film studio could be making a movie of his exploits (with wildly mis-cast lead actors and embroidery of the truth - lots of opportunity for satire there!)

Of course, there would also be plenty of crooked goings-on for Tintin to investigate too - a U-rated version of Hollywood Babylon. Come to think of it, there's already a certain master villain in the series who's been known to direct a movie or two! ;)

A quik question here Blaise, you got my wondering what's an Antipoden.

If this question is asulting, I apulagise, and also what's Levant.

what's an Antipodean.
see http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/antipodean

what's Levant.
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant