"King Ottokar's Sceptre" is in the tradition of Tintin inspired by the news, after "The Blue Lotus" and "The Broken Ear". And the least we can say is that Hergé gives us a very successful album. Here is the Anschluss is in sight, and the fascist dictatorships in general, Hergé unequivocal target (after - by his own admission - a time seduced by "the new order". .. but what a Belgian Catholic and royalist young would not have been in these troubled times?)
This album introduces the atmosphere "spy novel" in the adventures of the little reporter, a canvas Hergé deepen in his masterpieces "The Affair" and "Sharks". The icing on the cake, "King Ottokar's Sceptre" Tintin's rich mythology and introducing Syldavia Borduria two Balkan nations full of resources and the singer Bianca Castafiore, called "the Milanese nightingale" ...
