Nothing like Tintin

Cartoons out there today are simply worse than trash compared to the ones I grew up watching. Sometimes I feel sorry for the kids watching YTV nowadays, other instances I’m simply amaze at how well they’re able to handle stuff like spongebob and sailor moon/pokemon/digimon and others.

All this cheap Japanese animation's potent enough to drive you to the brink of death by boredom in just a few short minutes. But ‘Dhaan’ are the kids of today can endure putting up with this stuff day in and day out and surprisingly enduring little negative impact. This stuff wouldn’t have any chance of being broadcast in the past decade. But i guess it's ecpexted in the 2000’s, stranger things seem to happen everyday.

After seeing what kids’ve been watching for the past few years, the downfall of great cartoons is evident. It seems the best thing left to watch is Sesame Street. Even with huge advances across the board there’s still nothing out there today that can compare with Tintin. It’s one of the most memorable ones ever. I got to know Tintin through the TV show made over 15 years ago based on the many decades old original in French. I was really excited when one day I saw our public library had the same comics.

And I don’t think I’m the only person who thinks highly of Tintin. I’ve often come across Tintin memorabilia in the past. The one time I remember most vividly is when I saw Japnaam Singh of all people wearing a Tintin shirt! I didn’t say anything at the time for some reason but it brought back good memories and felt good knowing he must have watched Tintin too.

Tintin used to come on the weekends. I think it’s still one of the best real life based adventure cartoons ever created. With natural environmental design and believable characters it was something that you could easily relate too. Each and every story was more gripping than the next and took you right into the action. The other good thing was it actually addressed major issues and world events like the fascination with space exploration people have had: