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Lopez said on February 20th, 2008 at 10:14 am

FIRST COMMENT

Wha… Why are they hanging the dog? (Because he’s a no-good dirty Belgian dog, that’s why.)

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Lopez said on February 20th, 2008 at 10:17 am

Also: considering it’s Herge, these cowboys don’t seem to have a whole lot of practice lynching…

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C. Carter said on February 20th, 2008 at 12:01 pm

Tintin: vigilante madman. I’d like to see a Wold-Newton story where Batman takes down this interloper.

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Katherine F. said on February 20th, 2008 at 2:44 pm

I wonder if the translators had been reading a lot of Wodehouse. “Ballyhoo”, indeed.

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Andrew said on February 20th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

It seems extremely silly that an animal rights activist would try to interfere with the natural circle of life.

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Andrew Jeanes said on February 21st, 2008 at 12:20 am

Never mind the racism and ludicrous plot twists, what about those trains? European-style buffers with an American cowcatcher pilot, and those stripey crossing gates with the dangling tell-tales–completely unheard of in North America. It’s like Hergé didn’t care about getting *anything* right!

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Quietus said on February 21st, 2008 at 4:27 am

To be fair, American has changed a lot since the New Deal.

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mds said on February 21st, 2008 at 10:35 am

It’s like Hergé didn’t care about getting *anything* right!

I know! I’ve been doing some reading-up on Wikipedia, and it seems dogs can’t talk.

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