1986 / Ecomics / 64 pages / Belgium/Canada***
Hergé's death left our bequiffed hero trapped forever in a ghoulish Edgar Allan Poe-style cliffhanger, unless you opt for one of the multiple choice fan continuations. Rodier's reconstruction is a decent forgery, but an obvious step down when you've been reading along. The excessive cameos are forgivable considering, and it's nice to see Tintin being a journalist again for the first time in about half a century.
1991 / Ebook / 132 pages / UK
***
I'm grateful to now be less clueless about the transition from tradition to vague modernity in this branch of the arts, but I'm still too much of a novice to get Berg, even with a companion guiding me through the tangled forest.
2001 / Ebook / 72 pages / France
**
I liked this dreamy film, but I was capable of deciphering it without these banal insights and context. Maybe I've read so many of these BFI books that I've graduated from film school now.
2008 / Audiobook / 311 pages / UK/USA
***
A non-essential but fittingly-titled epilogue to Clarke's bibliography (his co-author would manage another), it's another practical roadmap from the brink of destruction to utopia, just come up with the technical details yourselves. The only new colours in the palette are Pohl's passion for maths and Clarke's for young Sri Lankan homoerotic play, but let's not dwell on that.
2014 / Ebook / 152 pages / Canada
***
I braced for rap and was pleasantly surprised to get chaotic background music instead. This document of an enigmatic swan song fittingly flits all over the place with existential musings and psychoanalytic readings that the author confesses may be a load of old wank, but it was a nice gesture.
