On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions. From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
This series was created by Alain Chamot (1971-2020).
Good morning all,
I got in late tonight so an empty post will have to do. Some great stuff is enqueue, so please bear with.
Have a great day!
EveryDayIHaveTheBlues
Tintin! God, i loved those as a kid. They did not age top well when I reread them last year…
el Jefe
What’s that upper left ‘landing gear’?
Ken
I thought it was the new Space Force logo…
RedDirtGirl
Captain Haddock! Snowy. Loved them as a child. Just like the Babar stories. Which also do not age well.
mrmoshpotato
@Ken: Space Force! *facepalm*
Amir Khalid
@el Jefe:
It’s clearly a tripod leg that ends in a kind of landing “foot”. What did it look like to you? (he asked innocently.)
Major Major Major Major
Ah, I totally identify with not wanting to live on this planet any more.
Yutsano
@EveryDayIHaveTheBlues: The comics are…very much a product of their time. Especially the Congo series, which is probably the last perspective you want from a Belgian.
@Major Major Major Major: We are all Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth now.
dr. bloor
Captain Haddock has basically been my life-long role model.
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: They are apparently preparing for a soft landing.
ThresherK
Until this was ID’ed by others, I thought it was a (section of a) USSR propaganda poster, post-Sputnik and pre-Gagarin.
el jefe
@Amir Khalid Looks like they’re just limping along
MattF
Speaking of comix, there’s a lesson of some sort in the latest SMBC.
Major Major Major Major
@ThresherK: I’m always amazed by how the concept art for space stuff, ~1980-present, looks exactly like Kerbal Space Program.
TOP123
I recognized this immediately. I love Tintin, and as has been said, it has some… problems… in a more contemporary perspective.
Mike G
I still have many of the books and love them.
Just don’t read the first one about the Congo. The Soviet book and the Blue Lotus (China) are on the nose as well. These were Herge’s earliest works.
As for the rest, appreciate them as a representation of the cultural perspective of the time they were written and as amazing pieces of art and imagination, with a complexity and lack of condescension that is rare in most children’s books.