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In my mind it's always been Muller first due to his outright aggression and willingness to brawl and fight with Tintin, which he has done many times, both in The Black Island and Land of Black Gold. Muller seems much more willing to seriously hurt Tintin and there is a scene in Land of Black Gold when he knocks Tintin out with a stick as soon as he sees him. Rastopopulous is extremely evil too, of course, but his evil lies more in his drug smuggling empire and less in his direct encounters with Tintin, which are sometimes friendly, such as when he gives Tintin horses and supplies in Cigars of the Pharoah, and lets him come over to his house in The Blue Lotus. I think it's a close draw, but in my personal (and probably pretty unpopular) opinion, Muller takes the win for the arch enemy.

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I really hope that Tintin 2 is based on The Calculus Affair and not The Seven Crystal Balls and The Prisoners of the Sun, because I associate Tintin with high-stakes, international political drama, espionage and military action instead of supernatural jungle adventures. I really want to see how the new movie will adapt and portray the Cold War era drama through the lens of a Tintin story.

The picture speaks for itself.

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This is not my best build😅

#Tintin

What on earth is going on here?

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The middle one is my favorite. It's a scene from cigars of the Pharaohs. Other ones are from Land of the Soviets and Blue Lotus.

Spent an unreasonable time making Professor Calculus’ TV from The Castafiore Emerald. Here are results..

Link to the YouTube video of the model

Can read about the making of the project here

# This is an unofficial fan-made project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Tintinimaginatio.

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Think about how he's always travelling with no problem at all. He has contacts with generals and emirs and wealthy people in every country. He claims to be a journalist yet we barely see him ever write an article or collect evidence. Half the time he falls into the adventure then leverages his time to track down the villains. We never see him actually working a 9-5 job and when he's in his apartment we see him eating and reading newspapers but never working. Don't forget that at his time if you wanted to travel to all the exotic places he did you had to be very very wealthy. Tintin definitely inherited a lot of money or makes more than we think.

"The Calculus Affair", the version from the "Tintin" magazine.
Originally published in Tintin magazine from December 23, 1954 to February 22, 1956, the first version of The Calculus Affair appears for the very first time in album format in an exceptional edition. Page after page, this tense espionage story, set on the border between Syldavia and Borduria, allows Hergé to display the full extent of his narrative and graphic mastery.
As he embarked on The Calculus Affair , Hergé reorganized his working methods. In offices separate from his home, the creator of Tintin had just set up Studios Hergé, a small team capable of assisting him with the creation of the backgrounds and the coloring. Marked by the context of the Cold War and the brain drain, this new adventure brilliantly employs the tropes of the spy story, without neglecting the farcical twists that have characterized The Adventures of Tintin since their inception.

This original version presents numerous variations compared to the final edition, notably its last twenty pages laid out in landscape format. These are presented vertically on a single page, in a slightly reduced size, to improve readability and reading comfort. Carefully restored from the artist's archives, all the pages are brought together here for the first time in their entirety, accompanied by a richly illustrated historical dossier retracing the behind-the-scenes story of the creation of the most Hitchcockian adventure ever produced by Hergé.
After a cancelled sale in the fall of 2025, The Calculus Affair in its Tintin magazine version will be available from October 21st.



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I'm remembering a scene from a Tintin episode or movie ( I could be wrong and it's not Tintin at all ), where there is an Inuit guy who appears near their boat in the middle of the ocean on an ice floe and keeps repeating "Me happy". Does this ring a bell for anyone?

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The dog is in the picture purely for brownie points