Quote Originally Posted by Eldan View Post
Oh, true enough. I'd even say the one with the Aliens was one of hte weakest of the comic books and the more traditional pulp/Adventure/detective stories were better. But the elements were there.

Still, I really hope they don't overplay that part.
To be fair, the aliens were pretty darn subtle, and Flight 714 was part of Hergé's "deconstruction" period (previously serious villains are made to look silly, later in Tintin and the Picaros, Tintin doesn't want to adventure and Haddock can't drink, etc).

Hergé did say that the reason he didn't want to make more science fiction/space travel stories after Destination Moon/Explorers on the Moon, was that he was so serious when doing those and making more serious (hard) science fiction would be boring and pointless, especially since he wouldn't have aliens (of the Bug-Eyed Monster variety).