Title: Probably Tintin's weakest book
Product review: Tintin's third album, originally published in 1931, is probable the weakest in the series. The young reporter goes to an America that looks like the standard Amerika of the European left: set in Chicago and the American West, the country is a commercialized hell populated by gangsters (whose leader is Al Capone himself, the only time a real person appeared in the whole series), greedy capitalists, uncultured rednecks and exploited redskins. As in the early albums, Tintin seems to escape from sure death at almost every page. Still, for those who accuse early Tintin books of being extremely right wing, it's interesting to see in page 29 how the expropriation of Indian lands for the exploration of oil is denounced. Also, in page 41 there is a very amusing satire of proto - radical environmentalism, as an old lady that is a member of an animal protection organization protests a mountain lion attacking a deer.
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