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Released in 1956, The Calculus Affair Tintin is the 18th. Adapted in the Belgian animated TV series of 1962, episode of this series on the will alone has crossed the French border and have been rarely however, broadcast on TV at home (and released on VHS, I ' had). The album also, of course, was adapted into the animated television series of 1992. It can be said of this album is the way in Ruritania, Borduria (another fictitious and Balkan countries created by Hergé, at war with Syldavia), Switzerland, France and nautrellement, Belgium, it is the best album of the series since The Temple Du Soleil, without, however, reaching its level. As I said before, none of the albums made after Le Temple Du Soleil is immense. But regarding the Affair (and, later, Tintin in Tibet) is almost the case, it is played almost nothing.

This is one of the most albums espionage / political 'in the series, by far, in which Hergé had fun denounce dictatorships through the names given to looks and Borders: their dictator called Plekszy-Gladz, and is suspected - because we see the never physically - to have a nice mustache Stalin. The rallying cry is Amaih Plekszy-Gladz!, Which resembles Heil Hitler! obviously. Already in Ottokar's Sceptre Hergé with, through Müsstler (head of the plotters against the King of Ruritania Muskar XII), makes a pun on two dictators Mussolini and Hitler. Here, it is clearly the communist dictatorships that are targeted.

Otherwise, this album, which appear for the first time Jolyon Wagg (as useless character, anyway here as it will have a more serious role in Tintin And The Picaros, as it is unbearable), undeniably, with Tintin In Tibet, best album of the post-Temple Du Soleil, without, however, as Tintin In Tibet, the 14th match this masterful album. A tinted Adventure political espionage, which also marks the first appearance of Sponsz edge colonel, who will return in Tintin And The Picaros too. And Castafiore, which here has a further role than in other albums where she made an appearance. In short, The Calculus Affair is a very good year (but I took time to love)!