(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) Paris - Tintin has discovered his inner Rambo and is ready to give Russian bully boys a taste of their own medicine in a book which will go on sale in France Wednesday.
But before Moscow condemns it as another piece of Western Russophobia, this has nothing to do with Vladimir Putin. Tintin and the Soviets is being published in colour more than eight decades after the comic book first appeared.
Experts have long debated whether the rough and ready testosterone-fuelled character in the story was fully developed, and could be seen as Tintin proper.
'The character is not fully elaborated,' admitted Philippe Goddin, Herge's biographer.
Tintin is far from the generous young man of later stories, he said, but instead a rather thuggish figure eager to 'settle scores with people he doesn't like'.
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