10. The Shooting Star (1941–1942)
The Shooting Star is the tenth of The Adventures of Tintin. Its original French title is L'Étoile mystérieuse ("the mysterious star").
The Shooting Star tells the story of Tintin's voyage to the Arctic Ocean to recover a meteor that is composed of Phostlite, an unknown metal. It was first serialized in the newspaper Le Soir in black and white in 1941, and was subsequently published in a colour album in 1942.
One night Tintin is out walking
with his dog Snowy. The evening is particularly hot. Tintin then notices
an extra star in the Great Bear. When he reaches home, he calls the
Observatory. They say that they have the phenomenon under observation
and hang up.
Tintin wonders
why it is so hot, and opens the window. He sees that the star is
getting bigger every minute. He walks to the Observatory, and, after
some trouble, gets inside. He meets a man called Philippulus who
proclaims himself to be a prophet and tells him that "It is a Judgement!
Woe!". Puzzled, Tintin proceeds to the main room with the giant
telescope. There he meets the director of the observatory, Professor
Decimus Phostle, who explains that the extra star is a vast ball of fire
making it way towards Earth, which will cause the end of the world!!!!
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