What does Khordoc think the Asterix series does better than Hergé’s Tintin?
According to Khordoc, Asterix series was better than Tintin due to the fact that in the Asterix comics, the speech bubbles they used were colorful to indicate the emotions and give a visual soundtrack. Also the differences in language can be seen distinctively, an example of this is how the Egyptians speech is in drawings, rather than words, using the hieroglyphs. The difference in language also can be seen in Asterix and Cleopatra where Obelix attempts to speak to an Egyptian yet his poor accent is shown through a badly drawn heioglyph. In my own opinion I preferred Asterix to Tintin due to the action content as well as the existence of a wealth of strength in the form of a magic portion, which could not be found in Tintin. Tintin had his fair share of adventure, yet he seemed to use his wit more than his fists to outsmart his enemies.
Khordok, C. (2001). The Comics Book’s Soundtrack: Visual Sound-effects in Asterix. In Varnum, R. & Gibbons, C. (Eds.), The Language of Comics: word and image, (pp.156-173). Jackson: U Press of Mississippi.
Nice, maybe watch how long your sentences are at the beginning.
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