A Tintin busy!

At the beginning of the album, Tintin is concerned by an evil star threatening the earth from one end of the world (the metaphor of the beetles?). The Shooting Star Tintin is the first designed under occupation and some have argued about Hergé the idea of ​​collaboration: this thesis is silly given the anti-fascist past of Georges Remi, at most he wanted to preserve the future of his hero.

However, if you want to play a little game diehard of this theory, we must recognize that Hergé studded details of his album more than curious:

_L'hydravion Used by Tintin is an Arado Ar 196 Luftwaffe embarked on Bismark among others.
_on Dawn eat either sauerkraut or spaghetti (the cook is called Müsstler?)
_The Villain is named Blumenstein (Bohlwinkel after 1954, Hergé wanted to repair this blunder committed another despite him, meaning bohlwinkel a candy store in Brussels, but also a Jewish last name!).
_The "Competitors" fly the American flag (Sao Rico after 1954) and all have names Anglo-Saxon, as the boat éperonneur (Kentucky Star)
_The Captain Haddock even treats his "enemies" of "redskins", which is very inelegant!
_ All expedition members are either neutral (Swedish, Spanish, Swiss, Portuguese) or German ...!

This album is very anxiety (due to the time it is understandable) and is the only one to make a foray into the fantastic (except for a small alien passing through Flight 714). When I was a kid, I did not like to read before falling asleep, nightmares hello! Throughout the album, the pace is very slow, as anesthetized, and the many gags are not sufficient to remove that feeling of heaviness, tightness.

Curious detail: Quick and Flupke make an appearance in the crowd, only intervention of another series of Hergé in Tintin, she is the significance? And why Tintin and the FNRS they put three months to go on an expedition?

I love this album, but it's a little apart in the production of Hergé, much like a daydream and like all Tintin albums, of course, is the one I prefer!