December 14, 2004
Tintin: The Boy Who Never Grew Up
I have never liked the Tintin stories. Even as a youngster, I found them to be slow, basic, plodding affairs because of their simplicity and their tendency to progress from beginning to end via lots and lots and LOTS of clichéd events.
Still, I always wondered why he never seemed to get any older, and thanks to Raymond Chen’s blog post, it all seems to become clear. A remarkable piece of research highlighted within the Canadian Medical Association Journal actually demonstrates the possible causes of Tintin’s delayed puberty. Who could have believed that Herge would put so much effort into medical accuracy?!?
