I don't like the recent Simpsons seasons, IMO, the 9 first seasons were brilliant but starting on season 10, the show's quality began to drop, less subtle jokes, more outlandish plots, absence of drama...

But the difference between The Simpsons and Tintin is that fans of The Simpsons have the choice. If they still like the show after the drop in quality, they can enjoy the new episodes, and nothing prevents those who don't like the recent seasons to just ignore them, stick to the older seasons, watch, cherish and treasure them, and continue to dissect and analyse every single jokes and details that made the show so great in the first place.

Tintin fans don't have that choice. I know full well that the new adventures wouldn't have the same feel as the original adventures, that management medling, the change of century, the politically correctness and plenty of other factors could ruin the new adventures in hundred of ways, that the quality of a series generally drop when the original creators aren't involved, like Asterix where the Uderzo-only run hasn't made me laugh out loud a single time and there's plenty of chance that it won't be any different for Tintin. But I'd still want them to give it a try.

Let them find the right team that will replicate as best as they can the drawing, story and humor style, with the same pacing and narration, and give us more adventures with these characters we love so much. Of course, it would not be as great as Tintin in Tibet or the Castafiore Emerald, and they would probably not continue with the wave of mysticism, postmodernist, bitterness or strangeness of the last titles, but if in the end they managed to produce some adventures as good as the The Blue Lotus to The Calculus Affair run, it wouldn't be that bad.

And if the new adventures are so horrendous, we'll always be able to ignore them and stick to the original run, but they should give it a try.

Personally, I wouldn't feel comfortable with official new Tintin adventures because it wouldn't seem right having the stories not being written and drawn by Herge himself and his team.

I'm not against any of it, but it's just a feeling I'd get when a new team takes over an established universe, with a form that doesn't resemble the original creator's ideas etc. I mean, yes I would allow a new team to be found, but they obviously will not be able to copy and mimic Herge the way us 'ologists enjoy the comics.

I can't imagine Tintin in anything but the current canon albums and the adaptations. Fanfiction I won't count. Seeing as our generations of today have dumbed down considerably from the time frame that Herge set Tintin, it would tough and almost unbearable to see him in the 21st century. Or even in prequels, because then a lot of research would have to be put into those and a complete reimagining of the tufty reporter maybe.

Personally, I believe it would be best to leave the idea alone; Tintin is perfect in his original form, aswell as his adventures.

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No, I disagree with new Tintin adventures even with the new movies coming up. Although they can novelise the original Tintin comics* and re-release The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure in one book as a 'movie adaptation' or 'the original Tintin' or something like that. With different covers that include the original cover art in it, of course, to gain the public's appeal.

*But I may just be saying this to slip under the English teacher's comic detector!

I wonder if the film posters will be the book covers?

Do they still write novels based on recently-released films? I know that they were common in the 1980s and that Alan Dean Foster in particular made a living out of them, but I assumed that they had gone out of fashion since home videos and DVDs meant that people could watch as oppose to read the movie or TV series.