Tintin in Paris
Tintin in Paris
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Book Information
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Tintin in Paris is a comic book which Lisa read at Coolsville Comics & Toys.
History
Lisa was surprised to find Tintin comics at Coolsville, as she thought that they only existed in high school French classes. In the scene from Tintin in Paris that she read, Tintin and Snowy were descending a staircase in a castle, and Tintin said, "Come on, Snowy! We must save the Belgian ambassador from the Black Orchid gang!" Suddenly, to their confusion, the whole place began to shake, and there was a sound of engines igniting. The comic changed to an exterior view, which showed a rocket that had formerly been concealed inside the castle, but was starting its engines and taking off as the castle crumbled around it. Tintin and Snowy had actually been inside the rocket, and they stared out the window as the rocket rose into the air. The rocket then suddenly turned around and headed for the ground and was about to crash into the Pompidou Centre.
Eager to find out what happened next, Lisa turned the page and accidentally tore it, to her mortification. She immediately apologized to Milo the store owner. Milo, however, wasn't angry because he understood that it was an accident and believed that comics were meant to be read and enjoyed rather than hoarded for their value.
Behind the Laughter
- Tintin in Paris is not a real Tintin comic. There is, however, a pornographic French-language Tintin parody titled Tintin à Paris (Tintin in Paris).
- The Tintin in Paris comic that Lisa reads is a pastiche of real Tintin comics as follows:
- The book's cover picture is a re-working of the cover of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, with Tintin and Snowy in slightly different poses and Paris's skyline substituted for Moscow's.
- The "Black Orchid gang" is a reference to The Blue Lotus, an opium den run by a drug-smuggling gang in the comic of the same title.
- The castle is from The Black Island.
- The red-and-white rocket was seen in Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon.
- Real-life Tintin comics seen on the shelf as Lisa reads include:
- The Blue Lotus
- The Secret of the Unicorn
- Red Rackham's Treasure
- The Red Sea Sharks
- The Seven Crystal Balls
- Tintin in the Congo
- Tintin in America
- Tintin in Tibet
- Tintin and the Picaros
- Flight 714
- Tintin and Alph-Art
- Tintin in the Land of the Soviets
- The Shooting Star
- Prisoners of the Sun
- Cigars of the Pharaoh
- The Crab with the Golden Claws
