Tintin and Alph-Art [SEP] series
Tintin and Alph-Art
Tintin and Alph-Art () is the unfinished twenty-fourth and final volume of "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Left incomplete on Hergé's death, the manuscript was posthumously published in 1986. The story revolves around Brussels' modern art scene, where the young reporter Tintin discovers that a local art dealer has been murdered. Investigating further, he encounters a conspiracy of art forgery, masterminded by a religious guru named Endaddine Akass.
Reflecting
other 23 Tintin adventures. Full of promise, it ends the series admirably by leaving the last word to every reader's imagination." Philippe Goddin opined that "Tintin and Alph-Art"'s opening "promised much, coming like new breath".
In a later publication, Peeters expressed a different view, stating that "one cannot help but feel disappointed" with "Alph-Art". Similarly, Harry Thompson expressed the view that Hergé would never have completed the story, and that while "many