No other book in the series comes ... Cigars of the Pharaoh finds Tintin investigating an international drug smuggling ring, which extends all the way through the narrative of The Blue Lotus.

He believed that this was partly due to the influence of Zhang, who had destroyed Hergé's "European absolutism", and overall thought of it as "the most visually rich of all the Tintin books".

and above all, the start of a beautiful friendship. Their complicity is such that it extended onto paper, giving birth to a new Tintin adventure, one that was more sensitive and human than the ...