Line #13 Recap/TintinTintinAndAlphArt


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3	The 24th and final Tintin adventure, left {{unfinished\|Episode}} when Hergé DiedDuringProduction. A selection of Creator/{{Herge}}'s unfinished sketches, accompanied by a transcript, was published in 1986.
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5	An art craze sweeps over Europe - everyone is suddenly obsessed with Alph-Art, or statues of letters. Even the Captain buys an '''H''', but Tintin remains skeptical of the movement. He looks into Alph-Art's origins, and finds his usual mess of crooks and swindlers (including [[Recap/TintinTheSecretOfTheUnicorn Sakharine]], [[Recap/TintinTheBlueLotus Mr. Gibbons]], [[Recap/TintinTheBrokenEar Mr. Trickler]], and [[Recap/TintinLandOfBlackGold Emir Ben Kalish Ezab]]) using Alph-Art as a cover for forgeries. However, he is eventually caught, and Hergé's last panel shows Tintin being marched away, to be covered with liquid polyester and sold off as a statue.
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7	See [[ComicBook/TintinAndAlphArtYvesRodier here]] for Yves Rodier's "finished" version.
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9	!!Tropes
10	* ArabOilSheikh: Emir Ben Kalish Ezab tries to use his oil profits to negotiate the purchase of Windsor Castle and Centre Georges Pompidou, respectively landmarks of the United Kingdom and France. He is extremely confused when they refuse to sell, for obvious reasons.
11	* ArtShift: Unintentional, seeing that most of the story are loose drawings and sketches, intended to be redrawn later.
12	* {{Continuation}}: Has a few, but the best-known one is [[ComicBook/TintinAndAlphArtYvesRodier Yves Rodier's version]], which has the feel of a GrandFinale, ending with Rastapopoulos's on-screen death and Martine getting PromotedToLoveInterest.
13	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Averted. The story is in black-and-white, because it's presented in unpublished form.
14	* DoubleMeaningTitle: An unintentional example via Herge's death, but this is comic themed around artwork is presented as ''unfinished'' artwork.
15	* DownerEnding: Due to being LeftHanging, the story ends with Tintin being taken at gunpoint to what will be certain death.
16	* DrinkBasedCharacterization: Captain Haddock usually goes for Loch Lomond whiskey. In this story, Haddock can no longer drink due to the lingering effects of a pill used on him by Calculus. The withdrawal is causing him various problems and a change in lifestyle.
17	* {{Expy}}: Endaddine Akkas and Ramo Nash were based on art forger Fernand Legros and Elmyr de Hory respectively.
18	* HijackedByGanon: Tintin notes a few times that Endaddine Akass' voice sounds familiar. According to some of Herge's draft notes, it was about to be revealed that Akass is none other that Rastapopoulos who performed MagicPlasticSurgery (although it is not certain that this would have been the case had Herge been able to complete the story). However what happened to him after ''Flight 714'' is a mystery.
19	* LeftHanging: The story ends with Tintin captured by a mysterious enemy. He's scheduled to be killed by getting liquid polyester poured on him... with no resolution. The final panel Hergé sketched before his death is Tintin being taken at gunpoint to be turned into a statue.
20	* MadArtist: The story would have had Tintin encountering the modern art scene and becoming the focal point of one of these.
21	* NightmareSequence: Haddock has a nightmare involving Bianca Castafiore. At first it simply involves Bianca forcing him to drink 'his medicine". Said medicine is whisky, which Haddock can no longer drink without ill effects. He tries to resist and Bianca turns into a giant bird-like creature. She attacks him and the dream sequence ends.
22	* PunnyName:
23	** Endaddine Akkas's name is a pun of the Marol dialect expression ''En dat in àà kas!'' (''And that in your chest!'', said when telling someone off). Marol is a dialect spoken by Flemish people in Brussels.
24	** Ramo Nash has a name which is a pun on the French word ''ramonage'', meaning "chimney-sweeping".

Context Recap / TintinTintinAndAlphArt