On 17 October 1940 The Youth-Soir was born. But this supplement will not last long. With the difficulties in the war, the pages will be fewer and fewer. 23 septembre1941, the supplement disappears and the story continues into very small strips daily Le Soir. With this change, Hergé must provide two more boards per week but strips per day. A new style will be set up. We must give more strength to the narrative and more rigor to the drawings. It should also hook the reader at each end of line.
In this adventure, which also deals with drug trafficking, is seen first Allan Thompson, Lieutenant Karaboudjan of which is found later with Rastapopulos and especially Captain Haddock who is then a wreck (to allow the pun). Haddock is a continual drunken marked the face. However Tintin realizes very quickly that the captain has good sides and from his breakaway Karaboudjan, he leads with him.
On several occasions, Haddock does not show itself worthy of the help extended to him Tintin. Relapses are many and passion for alcohol is devastating. Drinking, it turns into a dangerous brute, causing multiple disasters: he sets fire to the lifeboat to warm it knocks Tintin on the plane and even lack of strangling, taking him for a bottle of champagne .
It is paradoxically that Captain finds himself in the land of thirst. It is this journey that will allow him to, somehow, a detox. After The Crab with the Golden Claws, Captain will have just a small addiction to the bottle.
