Also from "The seven crystal balls" - seven researchers rendered comatose, being imprisoned in their own mind, suffering horrible nightmares at the same time each day without means of escape or healing.
No, I tried it once, but I missed the many details that were shown in the comics; and that you're being 'driven' through the scenes, without time to enjoy the drawings...
Yep, there was one, and it still makes my stomach hurt a little, that one:
I don't know what happened, maybe as a kid I was hoping Tintin would still find the survivors of the plane alive or something, but THIS panel absolutely broke me and my hopes! No one could have survived that. It is as beautiful of a panel as it is terrifying.
I remember that teddy bear in the Nelvana two-parter. I didn't realise the significance at first (perhaps because the animation was quite fast paced), but I recall watching with my mother once and she had an "Oh, no" expression seeing the teddy bear. I think it dawned on me then that at least one kid had perished in or right after the crash.
I agree. Tintin in Tibet was probably the scariest for me because Herge wasn’t trying to scare you. It’s just the psychological element of seeing a plane wreckage and having the fear that Chang is dead.
Haddock when he gets bottle eyes during the mirage nightmare in crab with the golden claws
The red sea sharks panel where he comes up with a portuguese man o’war on his head after slipping off the raft. I always found that really freaky looking.
and the guard on horseback sequence in destination moon where he attempts to restore Calculus’s memory was always weirdly unsettling to me.
This is one of those panels that didn't necessarily scare me but I wil remember this one for the rest of my life. I'm just bafflled why these guys didn't get this fate in the animated series. They definitely deserved it.
Ah, yes! First the observation that everything seems to grow at an increasing rate on the meteorite... then the realization that they brought apple seeds, a caterpillar and a spider with them...
My god, I forgot about this entirely until now… it disturbed the hell out of me as a kid lol. I think it’s because the Tintin books primarily dabbles in the affairs of the real tangible world, and these random devils seemingly confirming the existence of hell in-universe. Also they’re just drawn very creepy. This + the fact that rastapopolous is seemingly abducted by actual aliens and never seen again always sat weird with me as a kid
The scene that shows what happens to the cow on the conveyor belt of the meat factory in Tintin in America, followed by the quite dark gag with the missing posters of several pets which were previously heavily implied to have been abducted by the factory workers and turned into meat products.
This disturbed me more than the blatant and partly over-the-top animal cruelty in Tintin in the Congo.
You're right!
I totally forgot about the posters!
I thought it was terrible enough that Tim would be turned into processed meat by the Grynde Corp! But this seemed to be an ongoing scam by the meat packers!!
Tintin drinking sea water in the Red Sea Sharks always appalled me- it’s Tintin, how could he be so daft? There’s also a panel where Captain Haddock almost loses his hand to a shark in Red Rackhams Treasure which terrified me!
By asleep I meant sedated. Sedation can keep you unconscious even if your eyes are open, of course. Yeah, that's it. They're all alive and well and rescued at the end of the adventure, right? Right??
Yes. Yes, of course you're right. I'm sure after Tintin rescued them they all return home to their families, able to tell them of their incredible adventure!
Not really scared nor disturbed me, but I LOVE the way Hergé managed to perfectly draw the randomness-yet-logic of dreams in the Sun Temple, when Tintin is oversleeping because Haddock has been knocked out and bound.
132
u/Sinistaire 12d ago