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Yeah, Tintin and the Da Vinci Code would have been great...if only Herge had got to it before Dan Brown! It would have been loads better, to.

the best tintin book never written would probably
be tintin in WW2. Fighting the Nazis in the french resistance or something like that. it'd be cool.

I really must log-in more often. Some interesting possibilities.

i think a cool idea woid be to make a story from some of the rediscoverd pages in tintin and alph and you could call it trial in amsterdam.sorry if you have'nt read the 75th annerversarry tintin and alph art and don't have a clue what i'm talking about

I quite like nosl's suggestion of a title set in Antarctica, but think perhaps it might just be too empty a continent for an adventure.

But, perhaps an adventure that tied in a scientific expedition by Calculus with Haddock commanding a ship ala the moon books and Red Rackham's Treasure might work? Especially if you threw in some espionage.

Perhaps it would work better as an Arctic expedition where you could throw in some Inuit and Polar bears?

I think probably the best Tintin book never written (at least never ended) is The Land of Black Gold, the original edition. Given that it was written in a mood of gathering war, rather than the Suez-style time of final version, the ending might have been very different and more incriminating for the Axis powers. It could have entered Tintin adventures into the war era.

Then there are the Tintin stories that could have followed if Herge were free to write about his situation. Tintin could have been pitted in raids against the Axis powers across the globe, or at least against fascists who would be fictionalised version of the fascists. He could have come across concentration camps, which fits in with Herge's championing the underdog.

Following from MidnightBlueOwl's comments a Tintin in Germany Cold War story could be blended with the ideas of the ThermoZero plot developed. Tintin could have found himself in Cold War Berlin, having to cross the wall and travel behind the iron curtain. It could have redressed Herge's simplistic Soviet description from his first book and take a more considered look at the situation.

I echo the though that an Arctic exploration may be a little empty, and would require something else.

Harrock n roll: 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.

Why am I suddenly getting a bizarre mental image of Tintin meeting Blackadder?

I don't think I'd want to read a Tintin story that dealt directly with war- at least not WWI or II. It would either have to be a sugar coated adventure which would gloss over all the many horrors, or it would have to face those horrors and end up being far too depressing a story. It's very difficult to make light of something so ghastly in a tasteful, or at least clever, fashion.

I put my vote in for an Aussie adventure, though. The boys could fight for Indigenous rights or something while Castafiore has a catfight with Kylie Minogue :D

Tintin in Australia... Lol. Not being un-patriotic but NO.

Tintin and the Godfather?

Lol.

I'd like to see an adventure set in Scandinavia - perhaps beginning in Copenhagen then going to Sweden, Norway or Finland. I haven't thought of a plot though... Maybe something to do with Carlsberg lorry drivers mysteriously going missing... (If you've seen the adverts you'll know). You could have a woman as a villan for a change, and maybe have Castafiore play a strong role in helping defeat her.

Pushy
Tintin in Australia... Lol. Not being un-patriotic but NO.

Why ever not? It is known for a fact that Hergé's greates collection of unused reference material was on Australia, and that it was a subject he was clearly contemplating, so it wouldn't have been impossible - why the definitive no, just out of interest...?

ClaroQuerido
I'd like to see an adventure set in Scandinavia - perhaps beginning in Copenhagen then going to Sweden, Norway or Finland.

I could see a Cold War-type story unfolding in that sort of location.

Maybe something to do with Carlsberg lorry drivers mysteriously going missing... (If you've seen the adverts you'll know).

That would be another tack that could have been taken, if the Cold War didn't work out... ;-)

You could have a woman as a villan for a change, and maybe have Castafiore play a strong role in helping defeat her.

She sings the Jewel Song through a Calculus-invented Calcumegaphonic amplifier, bringing down an avalanche which buries the baddie!