Talk:Tintin in the Congo/GA2

GA Review
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Reviewer: Retrolord (talk · contribs) 11:24, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi! I will be conducting this review. Thanks!  ★ ★ RetroLord★ ★  11:24, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Hello there RetroLord, and thanks so much for undertaking this GA review! I'll post my responses in the boxes below, if that's okay with you ? Midnightblueowl (talk) 16:42, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Thats great. I've reviewed the article again and taken onboard the comments of you and Curly Turkey (sorry if i left anyone out), expect a final result sometime tommorow. Thanks!  ★ ★ RetroLord★ ★  12:11, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Is this all really from page 25? Did you use the same citations by mistake?

"In the 1940s, when Hergé's popularity had increased, he redrew many of the original black-and-white Tintin adventures in color using the ligne claire ("clear line")[a] drawing style he had developed, so that they visually fitted in with the new Tintin stories that he was creating. Tintin in the Congo was one such of these books, with the new version being published in 1946. As a part of this modification, Hergé also cut the page length down from 110 plates to the standard 62 pages, as suggested to him by the publisher Casterman. For the 1946 version, Hergé made several changes to the actual story, cutting many of the references to Belgium and colonial rule. Farr claimed that this decision was made to broaden its appeal to international readers rather than to reflect the increasing anti-imperialist trend across Africa.[26] For example, in the scene where Tintin teaches Congolese school children about geography, he states in the 1930–31 version that "My dear friends, today I'm going to talk to you about your country: Belgium!" whereas in the 1946 version, he instead gives them a mathematics lesson, asking "Now who can tell me what two plus two make?... Nobody". In another change, the character of Jimmy MacDuff, the owner of the leopard that attacks Tintin, was changed from a black manager of the Great American Circus into a white "supplier of the biggest zoos in Europe".[26]

In the 1946 colorised version, Hergé also included a cameo by Thomson and Thompson, the two detectives that he had first introduced in the fourth Tintin story, Cigars of the Pharaoh (1932–34), which was chronologically set after the Congolese adventure. Adding them to the first page, they are featured in the backdrop, watching a crowd surrounding Tintin as he boards a train and commenting that it "Seems to be a young reporter going to Africa...""

That seems like alot from one page in a book. Correct me if im wrong though.  ★ ★ RetroLord★ ★  00:37, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Just checked, and I have made a mistake; the final reference should be to page 21. I've made the necessary correction. Farr's Tintin: The Complete Companion is a fairly sizeable book, with each page being A4 in size, explaining how quite a lot of information can be contained within. Best, Midnightblueowl (talk) 13:13, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

"Seems to be a young reporter going to Africa..." Why not cite the actual book here?  ★ ★ RetroLord★ ★  13:43, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, its Farr who is being cited to highlight the significance of the Thom(p)sons appearance here, and I'm not sure that referencing the book itself would really add anything. If you think that its a must, then okay, but on this instance I don't think it's really necessary. Midnightblueowl (talk) 20:36, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Mostly satisfied here. I'll let you go on the citations rule seeing as the rest of the article is of excellent quality. I'll pass this shortly  ★ ★ RetroLord★ ★  19:34, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Much appreciated Retro! Thanks for undertaking the review! Midnightblueowl (talk) 23:33, 28 June 2013 (UTC)