Podcast 53: France (and Belgium)
How angry is it possible to be about Tintin, a comic where a boy and his dog solve mysteries and occasionally assert the supremacy of Belgium? Really quite, it turns out. That's right, we're covering the comics of France and Belgium (in rage-spittle).
Plus! Learn who's an alcoholic (it's Captain Haddock, and Roger). Which Franco-Belgian comic character has "bad trousers"? What are good names for the Cornish? We'll tell you. You'd better believe we'll tell you.
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Our title music is by Canon Hannon's Ham Cannon.
We covered:
- Long John Silver: Neptune - Xavier Dorison & Matthieu Lauffray
- The End of a Fence - Roman Muradov
- Sex Criminals - Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky
- Orbital - Serge Pelle & Sylvain Runberg
- An Tain - Colmán Ó Raghallaigh
- Harrow County: Countless Haints - Cullen Bunn & Tyler Crook (PDF Preview)
- Miss Don't Touch Me - Hubert & Kerascoet
- Tintin - Hergé:
- Cigars of the Pharaoh
- The Blue Lotus
- The Black Island
- The Secret of the Unicorn
- Red Rackham’s Treasure
- Asterix - René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo: