Explorers on the Moon [SEP] series
Explorers on the Moon
Explorers on the Moon () is the seventeenth volume of "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. The story was serialised weekly in Belgium's "Tintin" magazine from October 1952 to December 1953 before being published in a collected volume by Casterman in 1954. Completing a story arc begun in the preceding volume, "Destination Moon" (1953), the narrative tells of the young reporter Tintin, his dog Snowy, and friends Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus,
the Moon, believing that they had treated it like a theme park.
Literary critic Tom McCarthy stated that in the "Destination Moon"-"Explorers of the Moon" story arc, Calculus "embodies Hergé's... own wartime position, spun out into a post-war environment", representing a genius driven by his work whose activities are coincidental to national and political causes. He suggested that "Explorers on the Moon" was "perhaps both the most wildly adventurous and the most contemplative" installment in the series. He felt that