the encounters with cowboys and Native Americans would subsequently be reused in the third installment in The Adventures of Tintin, Tintin in America, although Thompson commented that the latter was "a great improvement" on Totor. Critical analysis Tintinologist Harry Thompson described Totor as "a brave, resourceful young character", noting that in several years he would "metamorphose" into Tintin. He nevertheless thought that the text was "slightly rambling and uninspired." Hergé biographer Pierre Assouline described the Totor story as being "very Boy Scout in spirit and clearly a prefiguration of Tintin." He nevertheless had mixed views of the illustrations, commenting that the lines were "awkward, hesitant, incomplete, but the movement, rhythm, and above all, the humor is apparent." Another biographer, Benoît Peeters, thought that the intrigue of the series was "extremely fragmented" because the main goal was to string gags and fight scenes together rather than to develop a plot. He commented that although by the early 21st century it appeared "puerile", being "a long way" from the formula of The Adventures of Tintin, it was nevertheless "an important step toward the modern comic strip". Tintinologist Phillipe Goddin considered the series to be "a milestone", describing it as "full of promise" and containing "plety of humour, rich in developments". The Tintinologists Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier commented that "Everything that made Tintin what it later became was seminally present in Totor", including the artistic style, the pace of the story, the use of humour, and the manner in which it imitated motion pictures. They also commented that Totor read like "an adult was retelling one of those early American western serials... to a group of children. On the one hand he is exciting the children, but on the other he is winking at the adults as if to say, "you and I know this is not serious."" References Footnotes Bibliography Belgian comic strips Belgian comics titles Scouting and Guiding in Belgium Comics by Hergé Scouting in popular culture 1926 comics debuts Totor 1929 comics endings Adventure comics Humor comics Text comics Totor Totor Comics set in New York City Comics set in Belgium Comics set in Texas Native Americans in popular culture Totor