jock123:
Can't justify going for these again myself,
I recognise each of these words but never seen them in that order before! It is almost like there's such a thing as 'self control'!
I'm really enjoying these books, both as an excuse to revisit the stories, and as a 'biography' of the series as a whole. It has just about everything you'd want, orignal art, layouts, comparisions between how it was presented in
Tintin versus the publication in albums, excerpts from interviews with the creator(s), analysis of the story, connections with
Tintin, and even analysis of a page of story telling from each of the reprinted albums. And, of course, the stories themselves.
It is facinating to see the evolution of the art over the years. Of course I can do that already by pulling down the paperbacks, but thick hardbacks somehow make it easier to scrutinise in detail. For what it is worth, I think that
The Mystery of the Great Pyramid pair are the most '
Tintin' in look of the lot.
Richard:
Volume 5: Professor Satō's Three Formulae, parts 1 & 2, and The Francis Blake Affair
Volume 6: The Voronov Plot and The Strange Encounter
Volume 7: The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent, parts 1 & 2 (and potentially The Gondwana Shrine)
Volume 8: The Curse of the 30 Pieces of Silver, parts 1 & 2 (and potentially The Oath of the Five Lords)
I think you are right that V7 will include
The Gondwana Shrine as they'll want to print them in order and for some reason if it was bumped to the next volume it'd feel wrong (to me...) to have a single album lead off a double.
I've all four of the books published so far and smashed though the first pair already (to no suprise to anyone that's read me bore-on about these for years!)
This does show me that Tintin isn't as well served in English as
Blake & Mortimer,
Lucky Luke (which Cinebook are returning to next year for more hardbacks with additional text), and
Valérian and Laureline. Of course it is great that there's a major publisher behind Tintin in the UK and they're kept the books in print for 50+ years. But it also feels like
Tintin is just a backlisted item for them rather than something to cherish. Cinebook has done for
Blake and Mortimer what Methuen did for
Tintin, but those four books with 'Making of' content are a generation (or more ago).
George